Phellinus ellipsoideus
Phellinus ellipsoideus is a species of polypore fungus in the family Hymenochaetaceae. Found in China, the fruit bodies produced by the species are brown, woody basidiocarps that grow on dead wood. In 2011, a specimen of which produced the largest fungal fruit body ever recorded was found on Hainan Island.
About Phellinus ellipsoideus in brief
Phellinus ellipsoideus is a species of polypore fungus in the family Hymenochaetaceae. Found in China, the fruit bodies produced by the species are brown, woody basidiocarps that grow on dead wood. The species was named in 2008 by Bao-Kai Cui and Yu-Cheng Dai based on collections made in Fujian Province. It was placed in the genus Fomitiporia, but later analysis suggests that it is more closely related to Phellinus species. Chemical compounds isolated from the species include several steroidal compounds. These may have pharmacological applications, but further research is needed. In 2011, a specimen of which produced the largest fungal fruit body ever recorded was found on Hainan Island. The specimen, which was 20 years old, was estimated to weigh between 400 and 500 kilograms. This was markedly larger than the previously largest recorded fungal. fruit body, a. specimen of Rigidoporus ulmarius found in the United Kingdom that had a circumference of 425 cm. The findings were formally published in September 2011, but attracted international attention from the mainstream press prior to this. The specific name ellip soidea is from the Latin meaning “ellipsoid”, and refers to the shape of the spores.
The fruit bodies are resupinate, measuring up to 30 centimetres or more in length, and extending 8 mm from the wood on which they grow at their thickest point. The outermost layer of the fruit body is typically yellow to brown, typically measuring 2 mm in thickness. The shiny surface of the spore is covered in pores and ranges in colour from yellow-brown to rust-brown. As with much of the fruiting body, it is firm, reminiscent of wood, and is reminiscent of the odour of wood. They are also hard and woody, and are also distinctively layered and layered. The very thin-brown layer of flesh measures less than 0.5mm in width. There are tubes that are up to 8mm in depth, have the same colouration as the hymenium, and have distinct layered layers of pores and are the same thickness as the surface of this section of the hymanium. The innermost layer is yellow tobrown, typically yellow- brown, and measuring between 5 and 8 millimetre in width, and the rest of the body is solid and solid, with no odour or taste. It can grow up to 1,085 cm in length and is res upinate, though typically extending less than a centimetre from the surface of the wood, where it grows as a saprotroph.
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