Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pyropolyporus grenadensis Murriil, sp. nov
Pileus woody, hard, applanate or very compressed-ungulate, nearly circular to dimidiate, narrowly attached and considerably thicker behind, 5-12X7-15X1-5-4 cm.; surface roug^h, rugose, closely furrowed, tomentose, hornyencrusted, fulvous to dark chestnut-brown or black ; margin obtuse, rounded in young plants, tomentose, fulvous, rather thin in large specimens : context woody, hard, fulvous, slightly lustrous, regularly zonate, 5-7 mm. thick ; tubes very evenly and very distinctly stratified, the strata separated by very thin layers of context, 1-1.5 mm. long each season, fulvous, filled with white mycelium, mouths circular, minute, 5 to a mm., edges thick, entire, fulvous to fuliginous : spores globose, smooth, light yellowish-brown, 3-4 /i; hyphae light yellowish-brown, 3.5 f^ in diameter ; spines absent.
Type collected in the mountain forests of Annandale, Grenada, on dead wood, February, 1906, H". E. Broadway.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- 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
