Ganoderma stipitatum (Murrill) Murrill 1908

Ganoderma parvulum Murrill, Bull. Torrey
Club 29: 605. 1902.
A very small sessile fungus, shining-bay above and honey3'ellow below. Pileus woody, nearly circular in outline, attached by a point, convex above, plane or convex below, thickest behind, 2 X 2.5 X 1 cm.; surface glabrous, laccate, azonate, slightly tubercular, very lightl}' marked with a few concentric furrows ; margin acute : context soft-wood_v, pale-ochraceous, 0.5 cm. thick, with dark horny radiations from the point of attachment ; tubes not stratified, 3 mm. long, 5 to a mm., umbrinous within, mouths polygonal, honey-yellow, edges entire, obtuse : spores subglobose, smooth, pale yellowish-brown, 4X5//.
Type locality : Nicaragua.
Habitat: Decayed wood.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.

Ganoderma stipitatum Murrill
Fomes stipitatus Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30 : 229. 1903.
A plant of medium size with short evanescent lateral stipe, shining reddish-chestnut crust, and broad white thin margin. Pileus exceedingly hard and horny, flat and triangular or somewhat circular when young, becoming dimidiate with ungulate center and thin spreading margin, which is usually lobed and often deeply cleft, hymenium normally plane, but frequently convex because of the upturned margin, 5X10X3 cm.; surface glabrous, varnished, reddish-chestnut, with numerous shallow concentric furrows, becoming shiningblack and at length dull smoky-brown ; margin broad, flat, glabrous, obtuse, 3 mm. thick, crenate to cleft, sterile portion 0.5 cm. wide, white: context hard, woody, 0.5-1 cm. thick, pale-ochraceous, with strands of dark-brown shining horny substance extending from the stipe to the margin in a tree-like fashion ; tubes plainly though unevenly stratified, 2-4 mm. long each season, 4-5 to a mm., grayish-brown within, mouths circular, white or very pale-yellow, edges thick, obtuse, entire : spores broadly ovoid with attenuate base, light yellowish-brown, smooth, 3.5X5/^: stipe lateral, 1X1 cm., cylindrical, equal, glabrous, shining-black to dull-brown, with substance like the context, apparently absorbed or overgrown as the pileus enlarges.
Type locality : Nicaragua.
Habitat : Dead wood.
Distribution : British Honduras ; Nicaragua ; Costa Rica ; Grenada.