Luteoporia albomarginata F. Wu, Jia J. Chen & S.H. He, 2016

Wu, Fang, Yuan, Yuan, Chen, Jia-Jia & He, Shuang-Hui, 2016, Luteoporia albomarginata gen. et sp. nov. (Meruliaceae, Basidiomycota) from tropical China, Phytotaxa 263 (1), pp. 31-41 : 37-38

Luteoporia albomarginata F. Wu, Jia J. Chen & S.H. He , sp. nov. ( Figs. 2 , 3 )

MycoBank no.: MB 815684

Type. CHINA. Hainan Province, Wuzhishan County, Wuzhishan Nature Reserve, on rotten angiosperm wood, 31 May 2015, Dai 15229 (Holotype, BJFC)

Etymology. Albomarginata (Lat.) : referring to the white margin.

Fruiting body. Basidiocarps annual, resupinate, up to 50 cm long, 15 cm wide, and 2 mm thick at the centre, soft and without odour or taste when fresh, becoming corky to hard corky upon drying; sterile margin cottony to rhizomophic, thinning out, white when fresh, become yellow when dry, up to 2 mm. Pore surface pale yellow to yellow when fresh, becoming straw-coloured when dry; pores angular to irregular, mostly 2 – 4 per mm, but sometimes 1 – 2 per mm; dissepiments thin, lacerate. Subiculum white when fresh, soft corky, becoming yellow and corky when dry, about 0.5 mm thick. Tubes concolorous to pores, corky, up to 1.5 mm long.

Hyphal structure. Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae bearing fine yellow crystals, frequently bearing clamp connection, occasionally simple septate, rarely branched; tissues becoming purple but otherwise unchanged in KOH.

Subiculum. Generative hyphae hyaline, thin- to slightly thick-walled, frequently branched with frequent clamp connections, regularly arranged, IKI-, CB-, 4–6 μm in diam.

Tubes. Tramal hyphae hyaline, thin-walled, frequently branched with frequent clamp connections, loosely interwoven, IKI-, CB-, 3–5 μm in diam. Some hyphae with swollen tips, mostly 10–15 μm in diam., the swollen tips projecting out of hymenium, cystidia-like. Fusoid cystidioles occasionally present; basidia subclavate to barrel-shaped, thin-walled with a basal clamp connection and four sterigmata, 10–12 × 4–4.8 μm; basidioles in shape similar to basidia, but slightly smaller.

Basidiospores. oblong-ellipsoid, hyaline, thin-walled, smooth, tapering at apiculus, IKI-, CB-, (3.7–)3.9–5(–5.2) × 1.8–2.2 μm, L = 4.26 μm, W = 2.01 μm, Q = 2.09–2.16 (n=60/2).

Other specimen examined. CHINA. Hainan Province, Wuzhishan County, Wuzhishan Nature Reserve, on rotten angiosperm wood, 31 May 2015, Dai 15240 (Paratype, BJFC). CHINA. Hunan Province, Shunhuangshan Forest Park, on rotten angiosperm wood, 13 July 2015, He 2300 ( BJFC).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Fruiting bodies of Luteoporia albomarginata (from the holotype).

FIGURE 3. Microscopic structures of Luteoporia albomarginata (from the holotype). a: Basidiospores. b: Hymenial structure. c: Hyphae from trama. d: Cystidia-like hyphae. Bars: (a-d) 5 μm.