Trametes villosa

A tropical or subtropical species on decaying dead wood on the ground, with semicircular to flabelliform basidiocarps, very thin, 4 to 7 cm in diameter, only up to 2 mm thick, with a hirsute pileus, white to cream, with 1 to 3 angular pores per mm, white to pale cream, and tubes up to 1 mm long.

Trimitic hyphal system, with thick-walled skeletal hyphae, hyaline, 3 to 5 µm wide, aseptate; hyaline, thin-walled generative hyphae, 1.5 to 2.5 µm wide; and hyaline, thick-walled binding hyphae, profusely branched, tortuous, 1 to 2.5 µm wide.

Without cystidia.

Basidia clavate, 10 to 15 µm long, 4 to 6 µm wide, with basal clamp connections, 4-spored.

Spores cylindric-ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with an eccentric apiculus at one end, 6 to 8.5 µm long, 2.5 to 3.5 µm wide, containing oil droplets (guttules) inside, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2051/24 and 2395/25.