Three new species of corticioid fungi with hyphal pegs

Dendrodontia taiwaniana, Epithele cylindricosterigmata and E. lutea are described and illustrated as new species. Dendrodontia taiwaniana is similar to D. bicolor in having a similar hymenial surface and hyphal system, but the former has smaller basidia and basidiospores and lacks dendrohyphidia. Epithele cylindricosterigmata resembles E. sulphurea in sharing similar basidiospores, but the former has a thinner, membranous basidiocarp with a white hymenial surface, the hyphal pegs are composed of tortuous and convolute hyphae, and its sterigmata are uniformly cylindrical. Epithele lutea is close to E. typhae in the color of the hymenial surface and has similar basidiospores, but the former bears sparsely scattered, longer hyphal pegs that have a ceraceous core; microscopically its hyphal pegs are composed of slightly thick-walled, tortuous hyphae, but a sheath of dendritic hyphae as in E. typhae is lacking.