Fomitiporia langloisii 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

Fomitiporia langloisii Murrill

Material examined. BRAZIL – Roraima • Caracaraí, Viruá National Park ; 01°30′36″N, 060°42′59″W, 85 m alt.; 06.X.2017; M.A. Silva leg.; INPA 286209 .

Identification. This species is characterized by the following: basidiome perennial, effused-reflexed ( Fig. 3A); hymenophoral surface with circular to angular pores, 6–7 per mm ( Fig. 3A); context homogeneous, thin, yellowish brown ( Fig. 3A); hyphal system dimitic, with generative hyphae hyaline, thin-walled, septate ( Fig. 4E); skeletal hyphae yellowish, thick-walled, nonseptate ( Fig. 4E); basidiospores dextrinoid, globose, hyaline, thickwalled, 6.5–5 × 6–6.2 μm ( Fig. 4E).

Distribution. This species is known to occur in North America ( Murrill 1907; Decock et al. 2007), and our record, therefore, is first from South America.