Yu-Lian Wei & Yu-Cheng Dai. Notes on Elmerina and Protomerulius (Basidiomycota). Mycotaxon 105: 349-354. 2008.

ABSTRACT: Polypores with longitudinally septate basidia are briefly summarized, and a key for 11 species is supplied. Protomerulius efibulatus is described as new from China. It is characterized by resupinate basidiocarps, cream to pinkish buff pores, generative hyphae without clamp connections, and ellipsoid basidiospores. It was found on rotten angiosperm wood in tropical forests of southern China.

KEYWORDS: lignicolous fungi, poroid fungi, taxonomy