GANODERMA BRILLIANT, OR THE VARNISHED TINDER FUNGUS
Kingdom: MUSHROOMS (FUNGI)
Department: BAZIDIOMIKOTA (BASIDIOMYCOTA)
Class: BAZIDIOMITsETY (BASIDIOMYCETES)
Order: GANODERMALNYE (GANODERMATALES)
Family: GANODERMOVYE (GANODERMATACEAE)
Look: GANODERMA LUCIDUM (FR.) P. KARST. (= POLYPORUS LUCIDUS FR.)
GANADERMA BL_SKUCHY, ABO LAK_RAVANY LIP
Category of protection: 3
International importance:
In the Red List of Belarus it is included for the first time. It is protected in Poland and Lithuania.
Description:
Fruit bodies one-year, are more rare 2-3-year-old, semicircular, 3-8 10-25 2-3 cm in size, with a lateral cylindrical leg 5-10 cm long. The surface of a hat and a leg is covered with a chestnut-brown brilliant crust. Tissue of a fruit body spongy and pith. Surface of a gimenofor of tobacco color, time small, roundish. Gifalny system trimitichesky, hyphas with buckles. Disputes are ovoid, yellowish, 7-13 6-8 microns in size, with smooth hyaline episporiy and warty brownish endosporiy.
Rasprostraniyeniye:
Europe, Asia, North Africa and North America; perhaps, cosmopolitan. In Belarus it is found in Brest (Pruzhansky district), Vitebsk (Rossonsky district), Gomel (The Recyca district) and Minsk (The Dzerzhinsk and Minsk districts) by the Region.
Habitats:
Meets in the mixed woods on the died-off wood of a maple, alder, a birch, poplar, oak, fir-tree.
Biology:
Causes the white slowly developing decay which is shown in wood decolouration. Fruit bodies are formed in July - October. Decorative and medicinal look.
Number and tendency of its change:
Single copies meet. In all locations the number of a look is small. The tendency to reduction is observed.
Major factors of threat:
Collecting fruit bodies, all views of cabins of the wood, economic transformation of lands.
Protection measures:
It is protected in National park "Bialowieza Forest". Periodic control of a condition of the known populations, search of new populations and the organization of their protection with a ban in places of growth of anthropogenous influences, a ban of collecting fruit bodies, explanatory work among the population are necessary.
Originators: Kordiyako N. G.
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