Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Fuscoporella shaferi Murrill, sp. nov
Broadly effused, seceding with age, irregular, corky to woody, rigid ^hen dry, 1 mm. thick; margin undulate to irregular, thin, adnate, ferruginous, broadly sterile, reddishbrown with age : context conspicuous, ferruginous to fulvous ; hymenium plane, even, grayish-umbrinous, ferruginous-tinted when young; tubes short, fulvous within, oblique, mouths irregular, very shallow, 6 to a mm., edges rather thin, uneven, sometimes dentate, with a tinge of flesh-color under a lens : spores subglobose, smooth, ferruginous, copious, /i ; hyphae ferruginous, 2-3 ^ ; cystidia none
Type collected on Fergus Mountain, Montserrat, West Indies, on a decorticated trunk, January 30, 1907, /. A . Shafer,
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
