Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Fomitiporia prunicola Murrill, sp. nov
Broadly effused, extending many meters at times on standing trunks, inseparable, rigid, 3-6 mm. thick; margin thin, adnate, determinate, rarely seceding with age, nearly glal^ous, sterile, luteous to fulvous, entire or undulate : context conspicuous, fulvous; hyme,'nium even or undulate, ferruginous to dark-fulvous, at length ashy-white and finally blackish-umbrinous in old weathered specimens; tubes indistinctly and several times stratified, whitish-stuffed and dark-fulvous within, 1-2 mm. long each season, usually oblique, mouths circular, minute, punctiform, 6-7 to a mm., edges thick, entire : spores subglobose, smooth, hyaline, 3.5-4.5 // ; hyphae ferruginous, 3 // ; cystidia none.
Type collected at "Camp Sunday," Medford township, Piscataquis County, Maine, on dead trunks of Prunus-pennsylvanica, August 28, 1905, W. A. Murrill 1922. Distribution : Maine, New Hampshire, and Ontario.
- 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
