Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Geopetalum copulatum (Ehrenb.) Murrill
Panus copulatus Ehrenb. Horae Phys. Berol. 86. 1820. Panus subflahellatus P. Henn. Hedwigia 36: 206. 1897. Claudopus byssisedoides P. Henn. Hedwigia 43: 183. 1904.
Pileus thin, rather tough, imbricate, .usually sessile, often varying to resupinate on the under side of a log, normally flabelliform or attenuate-cuneiform, whitish-mycelioid behind 5-15 mm. broad; surface pale-ochraceous to fuscous-pallid, finely pubescent, becomi^ discolored on the margin on drying: lamellae narrow, thin, crowded, white, becoming djolored: spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 7 X 4 /x.
Type I.OCAWTY: Brazil.
Habitat: On cocoanut petioles, bamboo trunks, and other kinds of dead wood m shaded places.
Distribution: Cuba and Honduras; also in Venezuela and 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
