Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Hydnoporia fuscescens (Schw.) Murrill
Sistotrema fuscescens Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1 ; 102. 1822.
Irpex cinnamomeus Fries, :Bpicr. Myc. 524. 1838. (Type from North America.)
Broadly effused, inseparable, irregular, coriaceous, 1-2 mm. thick ; margin thin, adnate, lobed, subbyssoid, sterile, ferruginous : context very thin, tough, ferruginous to fulvous ; hymenium uneven, hydnoid, ferruginous to fulvous, at length umbrinous ; tubes uneven, 0.5-2 mm. long, punctiformat the margin, but soon becoming irpiciform or hydnoid, teeth hollow, pruinose, nearly conical at first, becoming elongate, flattened and incised with age : spores smooth, hyaline ; hyphae ferruginous, 2-4 ^ ; cystidia fairly abundant, loUg, cuspidate, tapering at both ends, fulvous, 50-80 X 10-15 ii.
Type locality : North Carolina. Habitat : Dead deciduous wood.
Distribution : New York to Alabama and west to Wisconsin and Texas.
- 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
