“…Park, Ahn, Ka, & S. Park, 2007;Nakashima, Umeda, & Kanada, 1979;Sasaki, Arai, Ikekawa, Chihara, & Fukuoka, 1971;Usui, Iwasaki, & Mizuno, 1981 Usui et al, 1983;Yang, Sun, Yu, Cui, & Tian, 2005) from the fruiting bodies of G. applanatum. Our previous investigations on the fruiting bodies of G. applanatum resulted in the isolation of a series of lanostane-type triterpenes, simple phenolics and other molecules with aldose reductase inhibitory activity (Jung et al, 2005;Lee et al, 2006;Lee, Shim, Kim, Shin, & Kang, 2005;Shim et al, 2004). The fruiting bodies of G. applanatum have not been cultivated for commercialisation to date.…”