Perenniporia koreana, a new wood-rotting basidiomycete from South Korea

A new Perenniporia species, P. koreana, is described based on morphological and molecular data from specimens collected from Gyeonggi-do and Gangwon-do, Korea. It is characterized by annual resupinate basidiocarps that are very pale brown to yellow when dry. Microscopically, it has a dimitic hyphal system with dextrinoid and cyanophilous skeletal hyphae, and its basidiospores are ellipsoid, hyaline, thick-walled, smooth, dextrinoid, cyanophilous, (5.9-) 6-7(-7.5) x (3.7-) 3.9-5.2(-5.7) mu m.