Antrodiella citrea

Antrodiella citrea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Phanerochaetaceae
Genus: Antrodiella
Species: A. citrea
Binomial name
Antrodiella citrea
(Berk.) Ryvarden (1984)
Synonyms[4]

Polyporus citreus Berk. (1873)
Polystictus citreus (Berk.) Cooke (1873)[1]
Microporus citreus (Berk.) Kuntze (1898)[2]
Tyromyces citreus (Berk.) G.Cunn. (1965)[3]

Antrodiella citrea is a bracket fungus native to Australia, and New Zealand.[5]

It was originally described as Polyporus citreus by English botanist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1872,[6] and has undergone several name changes before being placed in the genus Antrodiella by Leif Ryvarden in 1984.[7]

Up to 2 cm (0.8 in) in diameter, the soft fruiting bodies are found on the underside of dead tree branches, particularly of Eucalyptus trees; they have the texture of chamois. The pored spore-bearing surface is white, while the upper surface is bright yellow. The spore print is white, and the smooth oval spores are around 2.5 x 4.5 μm.[8]

References

  1. ^ Cooke MC. (1886). "Praecursores ad Monographia Polypororum" (in Latin). Grevillea 14 (71): 77–87. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59649/0014/071/0077.htm. 
  2. ^ Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 3(2): 495 (1898)
  3. ^ Cunningham GH. (1965). Polyporaceae of New Zealand. 137. 
  4. ^ "Antrodiella citrea (Berk.) Ryvarden 1984". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=17084. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 
  5. ^ Buchanan PK, Ryvarden L. (2000). "An annotated checklist of polypore and polypore-like fungi recorded from New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany 38 (2): 265–323. 
  6. ^ Berkeley MJ. (1872). "Australian fungi, received principally from Baron F. von Mueller and Dr. R. Schomburgk". Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany 13 (67): 155–77. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1872.tb02397a.x. 
  7. ^ Ryvarden L. (1984). "Type studies in the Polyporaceae 16. Species described by J.M. Berkeley, either alone or with other mycologists from 1856 to 1886". Mycotaxon 20 (2): 329–63. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59575/0020/002/0329.htm. 
  8. ^ Fuhrer B. (2005). A Field Guide to Australian Fungi. Melbourne: Bloomings Books. p. 247. ISBN 1-876473-51-7.