HIGHER BASIDIOMYCETES PROM THE PHILIPPINES 

 AND THEIR HOSTS, I 



By O. A. Reinking 



Plant Pathologist of the College of Agriculture and of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Los Banos, P. I. 



An attempt has been made to collect the higher Basidiomycetes 

 of the Philippine Islands from known hosts. Few collections 

 of the fleshy and woody fungi in the Philippines or in other 

 countries have been made with a view to determining the trees 

 attacked. Miscellaneous collections of such fungi are currently 

 made by dumping them into a sack and later separating them 

 and sending them away for determination. While it is absolutely 

 impossible to give the hosts in each instance, because of their 

 decayed condition, determination of a large number of species 

 was accomplished by examination of wood sections. I am in- 

 debted to the Bureau of Forestry for the majority of the wood 

 determinations. In a study of forest-tree- and timber-destroying 

 fungi, it is of the utmost importance first to become acquainted 

 with the flora in the forest and then to know whether or not a 

 particular fungus is confined to a definite plant. A survey of 

 these fungi has shown that the vast majority found on dead 

 wood are not confined to specific plants. Most of the species 

 will grow equally well on a large number of woods. The pa- 

 rasitic ones apparently are more apt to be confined to definite 

 hosts. 



The species of this list are grouped, in so far as possible, 

 according to the classification of Engler and Prantl with the 

 host and the collector under each class of fungus. The num- 

 bers refer to the College of Agriculture fungus herbarium. 

 The collections have been made on Mount Maquiling and in the 

 vicinity of Los Banos, Laguna Province, Luzon, in Mindanao, 

 and in Sulu, either by me or by my students under my direc- 

 tion as indicated in the text. The identifications of the fungi 

 in this list were made by N. Patouillard, of Neuilly sur Seine, 

 France. 



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