Cui, Bao-Kai, Yu-Cheng Dai, Hai-Ying Bao. Wood-inhabiting fungi in southern China 3. A new species of Phellinus (Hymenochaetales) from tropical China. Mycotaxon 110: 125–130. 2009.

ABSTRACT: Phellinus minisporus sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Hainan and Yunnan provinces, southern China. It has resupinate basidiocarps, smaller pores, abundant hymenial setae, and its basidiospores are minute, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, pale yellowish and fairly thick-walled. The new species is distinguished from the other species in the genus by having minute basidiospores (2–2.5 × 1.6–2 µm).

KEYWORDS: Hymenochaetaceae, lignicolous and poroid fungi, taxonomy