Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Coriolus subchartaceus Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus rather thick, imbricate, sessile, dimidiate, conchate, rigid, tough, 3-5X5-8 X 0.5-1.5 cm.; surface nearly smooth, finely hirtose-tomentose, avellaneous, indistinctly multizonate ; margin cremeous, villose, thin, sterile, becoming black when bruised: context white, radiate -fibrous, zonate, firm, 2-3 mm. thick ; tubes rather long, slender, 3-6 mm., white within, mouths circular to angular, rather irregular with age, 2-3 to a mm., edges at first thick, entire, becoming thin and finally lacerate-dentate, white to avellaneous, glistening: spores smooth, ovoid, hyaline, 5 ^; hyphae 6 y-.
Type collected in the Iva Plata Mountains, Colorado, on Populus tremuloides, June 28, 1898, Baker, Earle & Tracy 186.
Distribution: Wisconsin, Colorado, and Utah.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
