• The Korean Journal of Mycology
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.231-235
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• 1986

Spore production mechanism of selected lignicolous basidiomycetes was inhibited by soaking their sporocarps in water for varying periods. Depending on the duration of immersion, some species resumed spore discharge, while in others it was completely ruined. This was related to the nature and consistency of these sporocarps. All the species studied absorbed water quite readily into their sporocarps. The loss of this water through dehydration was more rapid in smaller and delicate species than the bulky and robust ones.

• Mycobiology
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.521-526
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• 2019

During the 2014 survey of the mushroom flora of Gwangneung forest in South Korea, we collected two specimens of boletoid mushroom growing on a felled tree of Pinus koraiensis. These specimens were characterized by a light brown to reddish-brown pileus with appressed tomentum, pore surface bluing instantly when bruised, golden-yellow mycelium at the base of stipe, and lignicolous habitat. Both specimens were identified as Buchwaldoboletus lignicola, a rare basidiomycete, based on morphological characteristics and sequences of internal transcribed spacer (ITS; fungal barcode). Here, we describe these specimens and provide the first report of this genus in South Korea.