Cui, Bao-Kai & Yu-Cheng Dai. Wood-rotting fungi in eastern China 2. A new species of Fomitiporia (Basidiomycota) from Wanmulin Nature Reserve, Fujian Province. Mycotaxon 105: 343-348. 2008.

ABSTRACT: Fomitiporia ellipsoidea sp. nov., collected from Wanmulin Nature Reserve, Fujian Province, eastern China, is described and illustrated. It has a perennial growth habit, resupinate basidiocarp, yellowish brown to rust brown pore surface, dimitic hyphal structure with simple septa, abundant hymenial setae, dextrinoid, cyanophilous and thick-walled basidiospores. It is distinguished from the other species in the genus by having hooked hymenial setae and ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid basidiospores.

KEYWORDS: Hymenochaetaceae, lignicolous and poroid fungi, taxonomy