Fomitiporia maxonii Murrill

da Silva, Maria Aparecida, de Jesus, Maria Aparecida, Peres, Rafaela Saraiva & Sales-Campos, Ceci, 2021, Notes on Fomitiporia Murrill in Amazon region: a list of species and new records, Check List 17 (2), pp. 323-331 : 327-330

Fomitiporia maxonii Murrill

Material examined. BRAZIL – Roraima • Amajari, Maracá Ecological Station , 03°23′12.6″N, 061°41′24.3″W, 88 m alt.; 27.X.2009; M.A. Jesus leg.; INPA 286219 .

Identification. According to Ryvarden (2004) this species has the following characters: basidiome perennial, resupinate ( Fig. 3B); hymenophore with circular to angular pores, 4–7 per mm ( Fig. 3B); context homogeneous, thin, yellowish brown ( Fig. 3B); hyphal system dimitic, with generative hyphae hyaline, thin-walled, septate

( Fig. 4F); skeletal hyphae yellowish, thick-walled, nonseptate ( Fig. 4F); basidiospores dextrinoid, globose to subglobose, hyaline, thick-walled, 5 × 6 μm ( Fig. 4F).

Distribution. This species is widely distributed throughout the Americas ( Ryvarden 2004; Decock et al. 2007), including in some states of southern Brazil ( Ryvarden and Meijer 2002). Our record is the first from northern Brazil.