Orange Polypore

Pycnoporus sanguineus (I^.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey
Club 31: 421. 1904.
Boletus sanguineus I,. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1646. 1762.
Xylometron sanguineum Paulet, Traits Champ, pi. 3, f. J, 4. 1812 ?
Polyporus sanguineus G. Meyer, Fl. Esseq. 304. 1818.
Polysticius sanguineus Fries, Nov. Symb. 75. 1851.
Polyporus argentatus Cooke, Grevillea 15 : 20. 1886. (Type from Australia.)
Pileus thin, coriaceous, sessile or spuriously stipitate, dimidiate, conchate or reniform, imbricate, laterally connate at times, 3-5X4-8X0.4-0.6 cm.; surface zonate, finely tomentose to glabrous, bright-red, often variegated with yellowish-red zones, fading to pure white in old specimens exposed to the sun ; margin acute, finely tomentose, yellowish-red : context floccose, elastic, yellowish-red, 1-3 mm. thick ; tubes annual, very short, bright reddish-miniatous, scarcely a mm. long, mouths circular to angular, regular, minute, 3-5 to a mm., edges thin, firm, entire, concolorous with the interior: spores smooth, hyaline, oblong, 3-4X1-2,".
Type locality : Surinam.
Habitat : Dead wood of various deciduous and evergreen trees. Distribution ; Tropical regions of the world.