Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Fuscoporella palmicola (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill
Polyporus palmicola Berk. & Curt. Jour. lyinn. Soc. Bot. 10 : 317. 1868.
Effused, suborbicular , separable, thin, soft, coriaceous, flexible, 1-2 mm. thick; margin free, thin, broadly sterile, fimbriate, entire or lobed in outline, flavous -ferruginous, finely tomentose: context thin, conspicuous, concolorous with the margin; hymenium flavousferruginous, becoming nearly fulvous ; tubes short, punctiform near the margin, about 1 mm. long at the center, fulvous within, mouths large, circular to somewhat irregular, averaging 2 to a mm., edges obtuse, entire : spores subglobose, smooth, ferruginousfulvous, 3^/ti; hyphae ferruginous, 3-4 ju; cystidia scanty, very long, slender, fulvous, 40-60 /i long, 6-7 fJthick at the base.
Type locality: Cuba.
Habitat : Dead stipes of a prickly palm.
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
