Skeletocutis yunnanensis

Skeletocutis yunnanensis is a species of poroid crust fungus in the family Polyporaceae that was described as a new species in 2016. The type specimen was collected in northern Yunnan Province, southwestern China, where it was found growing on decaying angiosperm wood in a temperate forest.[1]

Skeletocutis yunnanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Polyporales
Family:
Polyporaceae
Genus:
Skeletocutis
Species:
S. yunnanensis
Binomial name
Skeletocutis yunnanensis
L.S.Bian, C.L.Zhao & F.Wu (2016)

Description

The fungus is characterized by a white, resupinate (crust-like) fruit body with a cream to buff pore surface, and the near absence of a sterile margin when mature. The angular pores number 5–6 per mm with entire mouths. It has a dimitic hyphal structure, containing both generative and skeletal hyphae. The generative hyphae in the subiculum and the trama are covered by fine crystals. The spores are allantoid (sausage-shaped), hyaline, smooth and thin walled, measuring 3.5–4.5 by 1.0–1.2 µm. They typically contain two small oil droplets.[1]

References
  1. Bian, Lu-Sen; Zhao, Chang-Lin; Wu, Fang (2016). "A new species of Skeletocutis (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from Yunnan of China". Phytotaxa. 270 (4): 267–276. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.270.4.3.


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