Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Inonotus jamaicensis Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31 : 597. 1904
Pileus dimidiate to triquetrous, convex, sessile, attached by a broad base, simple or imbricate, 2X3 X 1-1-5 cm.; surface encrusted, minutely rugose, cinereous behind, marked toward the margin with dark-brown or black zones ; margin regular, often obtuse : context fibrous, fulvous, only a few millimeters thick ; tubes 1 cm. long, 4 to a mm., larger by confluence, fulvous, polygonal to irregular, edges thin, entire : spores ovoid, smooth, deepferruginous, 1-2-guttulate, very copious, 5X7/^.
Type locality : Mabess River, Jamaica.
Habitat : Dead branches.
Distribution : Known onlj' from the type locality.
- 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
