Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Inonotus texanus Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31 : 597. 1904
Pileus ungulate, attached by the vertex, 3X5X2-4 cm.; surface hoary-isabelline to fuliginous, finely tomentose, concentrically and radially rimose, especially 'with age, the separated areas imbricated ; margin thick to very obtuse, pallid : context corky, narrowly concentrically zonate, fulvous to umbrinous, iridescent, 1 cm. thick in young specimens, very thin in old ones ; tubes 1-3 cm. long, 2-3 to a mm. , fulvous to tawny-chestnut, mouths polygonal, pallid to fulvous, darker with age, edges thin, entire : spores ovoid, smooth, very dark-brown, 1-2-guttulate, 8X10 /".
Type locality: Austin, Texas.
Habitat : Trunks of living mesquite trees.
Distribution : Texas.
- 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
