Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Scutiger decurrens (Underw.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey
Club 30: 428. 1903.
Polyporus decurrens Underw. Bull. Torrey Club 24 : 83. 1897.
Pileus nearly circular in outline, plane or slightly depressed at the center, centrally stipitate, 5X5X0.5 cm. ; surface very thinly encrusted, brown or bay, rough, imbricatetuberculose; margin thin, concolorous, sharply inflexed when dry: context white, fragile, homogeneous, 3-5 mm. thick; tubes white to alutaceous within, about 2 mm. long, decurrent nearly to the base of the stem, mouths angular, 2 to a mm., edges rather thin, entire, slightly uneven, white to isabelline : spores smooth, hyaline : stipe bulbous at the base, tapering above, reticulate, slightly darker than the hymenium, 3 cm. or more long, 1-1.5 cm. thick.
Type locality : Pasadena, California. Habitat : In the soil on the side of a canon. Distribution : Known only 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
