Lingzhi mushroom:Other Identified Special Species:(36).Ganoderma fulvellum.
✵The article gives records of the herb other identified special species of Lingzhi mushroom,(36).Ganoderma fulvellum,its English name, Latin name, property and flavor, with a detailed introduction to the botanical features of these other identified special species of Lingzhi mushroom, the growth characteristics, and ecological environment of these fungus species, the features of these fungus species, its pharmacological actions, medicinal efficacy, and administration guide.
Other Identified Special Species of Lingzhi mushroom:(36).Ganoderma fulvellum.
Botanical description: Ganoderma fulvellum Bres is a fungus of the Ganodermataceae or Polyporaceae family and Ganoderma genus, it is commonly known as Ganoderma fulvellum., Yellow Brown Ganoderma, or Huang He LingZhi. The encarpium (fruiting body) is semicircular (semicircle), fan-shaped or conchoidal (shell-shaped), 7–9 × 5.5–8 cm, the smallest pileus (cap) is only 2 × 1.5 cm, the new pileus (cap) can grow from the old pileus (cap) and are imbricate or connected together, the surface is reddish-brown to dark brown, has lacquer-like luster and inconspicuous concentric rings; the edge is thin or blunt, faint yellow (pale yellow) to brown. The context is brown to dark brown, with no black cuticle (corneous layer), thickness is 0.3–1.5 cm; the fungus tube is singlelayer, sometimes multi-layer, brown to dark brown, up to 1 cm long; brown to dark brown; tube orifice is orbicular (nearly round), 4–5 per mm. Aseptic, or sometimes basal.
The husk structure is composed of transparent, leptodermous (thin wall) generative hypha and brown, pachypleurous (thick wall) skeletal hyphae, which connate together and compose a parallel body, the top has one layer or two orbicular cells, the width is 3–6.5 μm, length is 20–30 μm.
The mycelial system is three-body type: generative hypha is colorless and transparent, leptodermous (thin wall), easily twisted, 3.8–6.3 μm in diameter; skeletal hyphae are hazel (pale brown) to light brown, pachypleurous (thick-walled) to farctate, the top end is trifurcated, skeletal part is 5–7.5 μm in dry diameter; binding hypha is pale yellow, curved, few branched, 1.5–3.8 μm in diameter.
The basidiospores are oval (egg-shaped), hazel (pale brown), and sometimes the top end is truncated, the outer wall is colorless and transparent, smooth, the inner wall has sparse spinules, 8.8–10.5 × 5–7.5 μm.
Ecological Environment: Ganoderma fulvellum Bres grows in mountains and forest. Geographical distribution: This species is mainly distributed in China provinces Yaxian, Jianfengling Mountain, Limushan Mountain of Hainan province, Simao and Xishuangbanna of Yunnan province. Worldwide, it is distributed in China, and the famous producing area is China.
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1.Introduction of Ling Zhi:Lucid Ganoderma or Ganoderma Lucidium.
2.Lingzhi mushroom:Other Identified Special Species:Ganoderma fulvellum.