Pyropolyporus jamaicensis

Pyropolyporus jamaicensis Murriil, Bull. Torrey
Club 30 : 120. 1903.
A rather fan-shaped plant, the upper layers of which are dead and much cracked and roughened, while the layers added below are smaller each succeeding year. Pileus woody, applanate, much thicker behind, 8X13X0.5-5 cm.; surface uneven, radiately rimose, dark-brown to black ; margin ferruginous, velvety, acute, becoming black, spreading and lobed, projecting 1-2 cm. beyond the new layers : context woody, fulvous, 0.5-1 cm. thick; tubes stratified, separated by thin annual layers of context, 0.2-0.7 cm. long each season, 7 to a mm., fulvous within, mouths rounded or polygonal, hoary when }'Oung, edges thin, acute, entire: spores globose or subglobose, thiu-walled, smooth, pale golden-yellow
(probably darker in age), 5-7 //.
Type locality : Port Antonio, Jamaica. Habitat: Old stumps of Psidiuni. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.