Ceriporia amazonica (Phanerochaetaceae, Basidiomycota), a new species from the Brazilian Amazonia, and C. albobrunnea, a new record to Brazil Author Soares, Adriene Mayra Da Silva Author Sotão, Helen Maria Pontes Author Ryvarden, Leif Author Gibertoni, Tatiana Baptista text Phytotaxa 2014 2014-08-08 175 3 176 180 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.175.3.9 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.175.3.9 1179-3163 5143889 Ceriporia albobrunnea Ryvarden & Iturriaga, Mycologia 95(6): 1070 (2003) . Description: —Ryvarden & Iturriaga (2003). Distribution:— It was known only from Venezuela , but now it is also known in Brazil . Ecology: —The species has been reported on dead, fallen hardwood (Ryvarden & Iturriaga 2003). Specimens examined: — BRAZIL . Amapá : Amapá National Forest , December 2009 , leg. H. Sotão 2009-289 ( MG 205212) . Taxonomic remarks: —This species is characterized by the large angular pores (2–3 per mm), pale whitish brown pore surface when fresh, and cylindrical basidiospores, 4–4.5 × 1.5 µm (Ryvarden & Iturriaga 2003). However, the Brazilian specimen has a cream to beige pore surface which becomes ochraceous upon drying. Further, it has slightly different basidiospores (4.5–5.5 × 1.25−2.5 μm) than reported in the original collection from Venezuela .