Haploporus thindii
Haploporus thindii is a species of poroid crust fungus in the family Polyporaceae. Found in China and India, it causes a white rot in woody substrates.
Taxonomy
The fungus was first described from south India in 1993 as Pachykytospora thindii. In 2002, Yu-Cheng Dai and colleagues treated the genus Pachykytospora as a synonym of Haploporus, and he subsequently transferred this fungus to Haploporus.Description
Fruit bodies of Haploporus thindii are crust-like, with a dimensions of up to long, wide, and 0.8 mm thick in the central part. The pore surface is coloured cream to pinkish-buff and has a corky texture. There is a distinct margin up to 5 mm wide that surrounds the crust. The angular pores number about three to four per millimetre.Haploporus thindii has a dimitic hyphal system, and most of the generative hyphae feature clamp connections. The basidia are barrel shaped, with four sterigmata and a clamp at the base. The spores are ellipsoidal and thick-walled, measuring 20–37 by 6.5–9.1 μm.