Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Coriolus maximus (Mont.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey
Club 34: 467. 1907.
Irpex maxhjius Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 8 : 364. 1837. — Syll. Crypt. 174. 1856.
Polyporus labyrinthicus Mont. PI. Cell. Cuba 406. 1842. Not P. labyrinthicus Schw.; Fries,
Elench. Fung. 83. 1828. (Type from Cuba.) Polyporus Meyenii Klotzsch, Nova Acta Acad. Leop. -Carol. 19: Suppl. 236. 1843. (Type from
Manila.) Trametes obstinatus Cooke, Grevillea 12: 17. 1883. (Type from Australia.)
Pileus very large, flexible or rigid, leathery, sessile, dimidiate, imbricate, 5-12 X 10-20 X 0.2-0.5 cm. ; surface conspicuously villose-tomentose to partially glabrous, concentrically furrowed, white or cremeous, becoming hoary ; margin thin, entire to lobed : context soft and spongy above, tough and fibrous below, white, 1-3 mm. thick ; tubes 1-2 mm. long, white to cremeous within, soon becoming irpiciform, mouths circular when very young, 3-4 to a mm., edges white to ochraceous, firm, fimbriatedentate, soon splitting into sharp
teeth: spores smooth, hyaline.
Type locality : Cuba. Habitat : Dead wood. Distribution : West Indies and Central America ; also in Old World tropics.
- 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
