Fomitiporia punctata (P. Karst.) Murrill 1947

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Phellinus punctatus is saprobic on dead, standing trunk of Crataegus monogyna

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Phellinus punctatus is saprobic on dead, standing trunk of Fraxinus

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Phellinus punctatus is saprobic on dying wood of Broadleaved trees

Guidance for identification (German text)

Fomitiporia lloydii Murrill, sp. nov
Effused, elliptical or irregular, inseparable, rigid, rather light in weight, cracking in dried specimens, 5-8 mm. thick; margin thin, adnate, irregular, sterile, scanty, ferruginous, nearly glabrous : context inconspicuous, fulvous ; hymenium somewhat uneven, slightly convex, ferruginous to fuliginous, opaque, distinctly stratified in 2-4 layers ; tubes 2-4 mm. long each season, umbrinous within, mouths angular or irregular, 5-6 to a mm., edges thin, entire or slightly toothed: spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 5-6 /i; hyphae ferruginous ; cystidia none.
Type collected in Ohio, on dead sassafras, C G. Lloyd 2801. Distribution : Ohio.

Fomitiporia earleae Murrill , sp. nov
Effused, subcircular or elongate and irregular, inseparable, rigid, 4-8 mm. thick ; margin thin, adnate, narrow, sterile, irregular, flavous to ferruginous : context thin, ferruginous to fulvous ; hymenium convex, even or undulate, refracting the light, flavousferruginous to isabelline and finally pale-umbrinous, indistinctly stratified; tubes fulvous within, stuffed with pale-yellowish mycelium, 2-3 mm. long each season, mouths subcircular, 5-6 tea mm., edges rather thick, entire: spores globose, smooth, hyaline, copious, 5-6 II ; hyphae ferruginous ; cystidia none.
Type collected at Biloxi, Mississippi, on dead oak branches, September 13, 1904, Esther S. Earle 65.
Distribution : Florida, Mississippi, and Texas.

Fomitiporia dryophila Murrill, sp. nov
Effused, inseparable, rigid, irregnlarly elliptical, 2-4 cm. thick ; margin obtuse, elevated at times, determinate, ferruginous, smooth, becoming blackish and rimose with age : context woody, conspicuous, fulvous ; hymenium plane or convex, nearly smooth, ferruginous to grayish-umbrinous ; tubes distinctly and several times stratified, 4-8 mm. long each season, fulvous within, somewhat lighter in the more recent layers, mouths subcircular, 6 to a mm., edges rather thinwalled, entire to slightly dentate : spores perfectly globose, smooth, thick-walled, hyaline, 7/^; hyphae ferruginous, 3-4^; cystidia none.
Type collected at Back Bay, Mississippi, on a decayed live-oak stump, September 3, 1904, Esthers. Earle.
Distribution : Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi.

Fomitiporia tsugina Murrill, sp. nov
Broadly effused, irregular,' adnate, seceding at times with age, rigid, of rather light weight, 5-10 mm. thick; margin thin, adnate, irregular, narrowly sterile, ferruginous-fulvous^ finely tomentose : context quite conspicuous, ferruginous, fibrous; hymenium plane or concave, somewhat uneven, ferruginous to subfuliginous, suffused with a grayish pruinosity; tubes indistinctly stratified, 2-4 mm. long each season, somewhat whitish-stuffed, ferruginous within, mouths circular, 4-5 to a mm., edges thick, entire: spores subglobose, smooth, hyaline, 6-8 ,« ; hyphae ferruginous, 3-4// ; cystidia none.
Type collected at Hebron, New Hampshire, on a dead hemlock trunk, August 6-19, 1905, Percy
Wilson .
Distribution : New Hampshire and New York.

Fomitiporia jamaicensis Murrill, sp. nov
Bffnsed, elliptical, seceding with age, rigid, 5 mm. thick ; margin thin, adnate, narrowly sterile, isabelHne to fulvous, nearly glabrous, subentire : context inconspicuous, fulvous ; hymenium convex, even, isabelline to umbrinous, distinctly stratified in 3 or 4 layers separated by very thin, fulvous cushions ; tubes 2 mm. long each season, whitishstuffed, avellaneous-umbrinous within, mouths circular, irregular, 5-7 to a mm., edges thin, undulate : spores subglobose, smooth, hyaline, copious, 7 ^ ; hyphae brightferruginous ; cystidia none.
Type collected at Castleton, Jamaica, on a dead grape-fruit tree, October 28, 1902, F, S. Earle
215.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.

Fomitiporia langloisii Murrill, sp. nov
Effused, irregular, inseparable, rigid, 0.5-2 cm. thick ; margin thin, adnate, subbyssoid, sterile, luteous : context inconspicuous, fulvous ; hymenium plane to convex, usually very uneven, distinctly and several times stratified, the young pores luteous, changiiig to fulvous and finally umbrinous with a smoky pruinosity ; tubes 2-3 mm. long each season, whitish -stuffed and avellaneous within, the layers separated by very thin cushions of ferruginous mycelium, mouths angular, 6 to a mm., edges thin, entire : spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 5-6 ii ; hyphae luteous ; cystidia none.
Type collected near St. Martinsville, lyouisiana, on decaying pieces of deciduous wood in low woods, November 12, 1897, A. B. Langlois 2525 .
Distribution : South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, and lyouisiana.

Fomitiporia laminata Murrill, sp. nov-
Broadly effused, extending many centimeters along branches, inseparable, elongateelliptical to irregular, rigid, 0.5-1 cm. thick; margin thin, adnate, nearly entire, ferruginous to fulvous, finely tomentose, narrow: context thin, inconspicuous, fulvous; hymenium very smooth, convex, glistening, distinctly and several times stratified, the layers separated by narrow, regular, fulvous lines ; tubes 2-3 mm. long each season, usually oblique, whitish-stuffed, grayish-umbrinous within, mouths subcircular, 5 to a mm., edges thick, entire, ferruginous to fulvous, becoming avellaneous to umbrinous with age : spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 5fi; hyphae ferruginous; cystidia none.
Type collected at " Camp Sunday," in Medford township, Piscataquis County, Maine, on dead alder trunks, August 28, 1905, JV. A . Murrill 1923.
Distribution: Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, and Ontario.

Fomitiporia obliquiformis Murrill, sp. nov
Broadly effused, inseparable, irregular, rigid, heavy, 5-15 mm. thick; margin thin, adnate, narrow, ferruginous-fulvous, finely tomentose, slightly undulate : context inconspicuous, ferruginous ; h3mienium convex, undulate, fulvous to avellaneous, very indistinctly stratified; tubes very oblique, 2-4 mm. long each season, ferruginousfulvous and somewhat whitish-stuffed within, mouths oblique, subcircular, 4 to a mm., edges rather thick, entire: spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 6/^; hyphae ferruginous ; cystidia none.
Type collected near Cincinnati, Ohio, on hardwood logs, September 20, 1887, A. P. MorganSO. Distribution : Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Fuscoporella costaricensis Murrill, sp. nov
Orbicular to irregularly effused, inseparable, rigid, fragile, 1-2 mm. thick; margin thin, adnate, entire to undulate, narrowly sterile, ferruginous, nearly glabrous, becoming blackish at times with age : context inconspicuous, ferruginous to fulvous ; hymenium nearly plane, ferruginous when very young, soon becoming umbrinousand finally chestnutcolored, cracking with age; tubes very short, 1-2 mm. long, umbrinous within, mouths punctiform, regular, subcircular, 5-6 toamm., edges thin, rigid, entire : spores subglobose, smooth, ferruginous, 5-6//; hyphae pale-ferruginous, 3^//; cystidia none.
Type collected at Santo Domingo de San Mateo, Costa Rica, 300 meters, on a decayed hardwood trunk, May 15-17, 1906, W. R. Maxon 588.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.