BioImages (UK) BIOTA (living things) Eukaryota (eukaryotes) FUNGI SS. (true fungi) BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers) BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes) POLYPORALES (polypores) MERIPILACEAE (giant polypores) Antrodia (a genus of bracket fungi) Antrodia xantha (a bracket fungus) Record Antrodia xantha is also a member of: Fungi sl. Lower Plants (via Fungi ss.)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK) Antrodia xantha (Fr.) Ryvarden, 1973 (a bracket fungus) Date: 5 September 2000 OS grid ref: TQ02 Lat/Lon: 51° 0' N, 0° 30' W Location: County: Sussex, Vice County: West Sussex, VC13, England Voucher: 05/09/2000[D] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) Stage or state: Fruitbody Record Summary: under fallen, very rotten, decorticate Beech log Associated organism: on underside of very rotte, decorticate, fallen log of Fagus sylvatica Identification Notes: Taste: mild. Hyphae: monomitic, clamped, with round crystalline inclusions in 50%NH4OH. Spores: cyanophilous, non-amyloid, 3/1.3µm, arcute, with 2 oil drops. Images standard photographs and close-ups macro-photographs microscope photographs << Click on a thumbnail

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