Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Spongipellis galactinus (Berk.) Pat. Tax. Hymen. 84. 1900
Polyporus galaciinus 'Qtx^. I^ond. Jour. Bot. d: 321. 1847.
? Tranieies malicola Berk. & Curt. Jour. Acad. Phila. II. 3 : 209. 1856. (Type from Pennsylvania.)
Polyporus immitis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 35: 135. 1884. (Type from New York.)
Pileus cespitose-imbricate, soft, spongy and watery when fresh, rigid and brittle when dry, dimidiate or reniform, elongate behind, applanate or convex, much contorted on drying, 3-5X5-10X0.5-1 cm.; surface hispid or strigose-tomentose, white, azonate, smooth or slightly tuberculose, becoming isabelline on drying ; margin thin, but often obtuse, sterile, entire, discolored and inflexed when dry : context zonate, firm, fibrous-woody below, spongy above, 3-7 mm. thick ; tubes 3-5 mm. long, slender, white to isabelline, mouths minute, white, glistening, angular or slightly flexuose, 6 to a mm., edges very thin, laceratedentate, at length isabelline : spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, 3-4 X 1.5-2 /i.
Type locality : Waynesville, Ohio, on rotten trunks. Habitat : Dead or diseased. trunks of deciduous trees. Disa:RiBUTiON : Eastern Canada to Ohio.
- 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
