Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Coltriciella dependens (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey
Club 31 : 348. 1904.
Polyporus dependens Berk. & Curt. Ann. Nat. Hist. II. 12 : 431. 1853.— -Grevillea 1 : 11. 1872. PolysHctus dependens Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6 : 213. 1888.
Hymenophore gregarious or cespitose ; pileus very small, conical, pendant, vertically attached, 1-2 cm. broad, about 1 cm. thick; surface cinnamon-colored, soft, elongatestriate, sericeous, subzonate ; margin acute, fibrillose : context spongy, very thin, ferruginous-fulvous, 1-2 mm. thick; tubes long, 5-8 mm., fulvous, mouths large, angular, 1-2 to a mm., smaller near the margin, edges thin, toothed, yellowish to fulvous: spores ellipsoidal, smooth, ferruginous, 7-8 X 3.5-4 /i : stipe central, attached at the vertex, cylindrical, gradually enlarging as it approaches the pileus, about 1 cm. long, -1-3 mm. thick, resembling the pileus in surface and substance.
Type locality : South Carolina.
Habitat : Decorticated pine wood.
Distribution : New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
- 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
