Polypores from Shennongjia Nature Reserve in Hubei Province, Central China

During 2004 to 2006, investigations on wood-inhabiting fungi were carried out in Shennongjia Nature Reserve of Hubei Province, in central China. About 600 specimens of poroid wood-inhabiting fungi were collected, among which several specimens of an unidentified species of Albatrellus, described and illustrated as Albatrellus zhuangii sp. nov. 139 species belonging to 55 genera of polypores were also identified from this Nature Reserve, of which about 60%new for the studied area.