Polyporus maculosus Murrill 1904

Polyporus maculosus Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 41. 1904
A small tough plant nearly related to P fissuSy but minutely tomentose, with rounded, nearly glabrous, spots of a reddish-brown color. Pileus irregularly orbicular, deeply depressed, 3-3.5X0.1-0.2 cm.; surface finely and densely tomentose, radiately striate, drab-colored, ornamented with several light-bay or chestnut spots mostly situated about midway between the center and the margin, which is very thin, striate, irregular and somewhat fissured but entirely devoid of teeth or cilia: context 0.5-1.5 mm. thick, tough to corky, pallid ; tubes 0.2-0.4 mm. long, 6-7 to a mm., decurrent, pallid or yellowish, subcylindrical, edges entire: spores ovoid, hyaline, smooth, 3X4,ti, immature in the specimens: stipe central, solid, woody, tapering upward, chestnut-black at the base, with blotches of light-yellow, uneven, subglabrous, 2 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick.
Type locality : Central America.
Habitat : Dead wood.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.