Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pyropolyporus dependens Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus very hard, woody, ungulate, attenuate and vertically afl&xed behind, S~5 X 4-8 X 4-8 cm.; surface black, very rough and rimose, horny-encrusted, repeatedly slightly sulcate ; margin abruptly acute, rarely rounded, velvety, ferruginous, undulate : context hard, woody, fulvous, very thin and inconspicuous ; tubes indistinctly stratified, 2-3 mm. long each season, ferruginous within, becoming dark-fulvous in the older layers, mouths circular, minute, 5-6 to a mm., edges obtuse, entire, fulvous to chestnut-brown , glistening : spores globose, smooth, brown, 3/^; hyphae 3//; cystidia none.
Type collected at Alto Cedro, Cuba, on decaying hardwood trunks, March, 1903, Z. M Underwood & F. S. Earle 1508.
Distribution : Cuba ; Bahamas.
- 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
