Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Spongipellis hydrophilus (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill
Polyporus hydrophilus Berk. & Curt. Jour. I^inn. Soc. 10 : 306. 1868.
Pileus thin, somewhat cespitose, flabelliform, attached by a tubercle, fleshy and very watery when fresh, becoming rigid and contorted when dry, 2-3X3-5 X 0.2-0.4 cm.; surface isabelline, finely hispid-tomentose, zonate and concentrically furrowed near the margin, which is very thin, incurved and bay to black in dried specimens : context fleshy to rigid and hard, white to slightly yellowish, 1-2.5 mm. thick ; tubes short, 1-1,5 mm. long, white to isabelline within, mouths minute, circular to angular, 6 to a mm., collapsing, edges thin, dentate, white to isabelline, glistening : spores smooth, hyaline.
Type locality : Cuba.
Habitat : On logs.
Distribution : Cuba ; British Honduras.
- 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
