Inonotus amplectens Murrill 1904

Inonotus amplectens Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31 : 600. 1904
Pileus hemispherical, clasping, concave beneath, 1-3 cm. in diameter, 1-2 cm. thick ; surface soft, velvety, dark yellowish-orange ; margin at first obtuse, entire, straw-colored, becoming thin, undulate or toothed, deflexed and concolorous : context soft, spongyfibrous, ferruginous ; hymenium at first honey-yellow, becoming umbrinous ; tubes 2-4 mm. long, 2-4 to a mm., larger by confluence, umbrinous within, mouths at first closed by a yellowish membrane, subcircular, regular, entire, becoming large, irregular, coarsely toothed and concentrically split into irpiciform plates : spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, 1-2-guttulate, 4X6/^.
Type locality : Ocmulgee River, Georgia. Habitat: Ji\n%t^i%SQii Asimma. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.