Comprehensive Description
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Favolus leprosus (Fries) Murrill
Hexagofia leprosa Fries, Nov. Symb. 101. 1851.
Pileus thick, pulvinate, undulate, narrowly attached and nearly circular to dimidiate, 5-12 cm. broad, 3-5 cm. thick ; surface nearly smooth, azonate, short-tomentose in spots, finally glabrous, fulvous in dried specimens ; margin thin, concolorous, dark-colored when bruised: context soft, puiiky, homogeneous, isabelline to pale-umbrinous, 2 mm. thick m front, about 1 cm. thick behind; tubes long and large, isabelline when young, 1.5-2 cm. in length, mouths alveolar, about 2 mm. broad, becoming irregular and lacerate with age, edges thin, uneven, at length deeply toothed : spores not examined.
Type locality; Island of St. John, West Indies.
Habitat : Dead wood.
Distribution: St. John ; also in Brazil.
- 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
Comprehensive Description
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Spongipellis luridescens Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus cdmpressed-ungulate, subimbricate, sessile, dimidiate, plane below, 3 X 5 X 1-2 cm.; surface smooth, spongy-tomentose, azonate, anoderm, isabelline to fulvous or fuliginous; margin rather thick, either acute or rounded, entire, sterile, con color ous : context soft, punky, white to discolored, 3-5 mm. thick, 5-8 mm. long, white to isabelline within, darker near the miouths, which are circular to angular, sinuous and slightly irpiciform behind, 1-2 to a mm., edges thin, firm, corky, entire to lacerate, isabelline to fuliginous with age : spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, 3-4 X 1-2/" ; hyphae 3 /i, yellowish-white ; cystidia none.
Type collected at Hall's Delight, Jamaica, 450 meters, on old stumps, October 25, 1902, F. S. Earle 114.
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