Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pyropolyporus extensus (I^ev.) Murrill
Polyporus extensus I^^v. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 5 : 129. 1846.
Ganoderma mexicanum Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 14: 54. 1898. (Type from Mexico.)
Pileus corky to woody, dimidiate to flabelliform, applanate, 10-20X15-30X1-3 cm.; surface velvety, thinly encrusted, rugose, zonate, sulcate, fulvous to castaneous, becoming dark and rimose with age ; margin thin, acute to subobtuse, sterile, velvety, isabelline to fulvous, undulate to lobed : context corky to woody, yellow, slightly zonate, becoming darker, with dendroid markings, in age, 0.5-1 cm. thick; tubes evenly and distinctly stratified, 2-4 mm. long each season, fulvous, mouths circular, minute, 5 to a mm., edges obtuse, entire, ochraceous to fulvous: spores globose, smooth, fulvous, 4-5//; hyphae fulvous, 4/i.
Type locality : Guadeloupe.
Habitat: Decayed trunks.
Distribution : Southern Florida ; Mexico ; Nicaragua ; Cuba ; Jamaica ; Guadeloupe.
- 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
