Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Scutiger ellisii (Berk.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30 : 427. 1903
Polyporus Ellisii Berk. Grevillea 7 : 5. 1878.
Polyporus Jiavosquamosus Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 24 : 84. 1897. (Type from Alabama, in pine woods.)
Pilei cespitose ; pileus reniform, convex, 12-15 cm. broad, 1-2 cm. thick; surface sulphur-yellow with a greenish tinge, very rough, with broad, floccose, imbricated scales * margin thick, concolorous, inflexed : context white or slightly yellowish, fleshy, firm, rather hard when dry, with a strong unpleasant odor when fresh, 1 cm. or more thick ; tubes subdecurrent, 3-5 mm. long, mouths large, 1-2 to a mm., irregular, angular, edges thin, white to yellowish, changing to greenish where wounded : spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 9X6/^: stipe lateral or excentric, slightly flattened, irregTilarly roughened, solid, subreticulate, dark-yellow, hard and corky within, 7-8 cm. long, 4-5 cm. thick.
Type locality : Newfield, New Jersey.
Habitat : Clayey soil in low woods.
Distribution : New Jersey, South Carolina, and Alabama.
- 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
