Research Paper

Notes on New Formosan Forest Fungi. IV. Research on the Wood-destroying Poria from Taiwan.

Zuei-Ching Chen

Published on: June 1976

Page: 123 - 127

DOI: 10.6165/tai.1976.21.123

  • BibTeX
    •
  • EndNote
    •
  • RIS
    •

    Abstract

    The flora of the genus Poria Pers. Ex Gray fron Taiwan has been studied through the wide-range field survey since 1973. The following six species of the resupinate growth habit of poroid fungi are reported first time from this Island: Poria reticulata(Pers. Ex Fires) Cooke, P. nigrescens Bres., P. carneolutea Rodway & Cleland, P. versipora(Pers.) Rom., P. cinerascens(Bres.) Sacc., and P . Nigra(Berk.) Cooke. P. nigra causes a brown rot of wood and others are the white rotters.

    Literature Cited