ABSTRACT: Fomitoporia tibetica is described as a new species; it is characterized by annual growth habit, monomitic hyphal structure, triquetrous hymenial setae, dextrinoid and cyanophilous basidiospores, and by growth on gymnosperms. F. tibetica is closely related to F. dryadea (= Inonotus dyradeus), but the latter species has perennial growth habit, ventricose setae, and it usually grows on Quercus.

KEYWORDS: Basidiomycota, polypore, taxonomy

NOMENCLATURAL NOVELTIES:
Fomitoporia tibetica Y.C. Dai & M. Zang, p. 218