Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Fomitiporella melleopora Murrill, sp. nov
Effused, inseparable, irregular, rigid, 3-5 mm. thick; margin thin, undulate, slightly
elevated, finely tomentose, flavous : context scarcely visible, fulvous; hymenium uneven,
rather distinctly stratified ; tubes 2-4 mm. long each season, fulvous within, mouths circular,
nearly regular, 5-6 to a mm., flavous to melleous when young, becoming umbrinous with
age, edges thick, entire : spores globose, thin-walled, smooth, pale-ferruginous, copious,
/i; hyphae ferruginous ; cystidia none
Type collected near New Orleans, Louisiana, on dead willow logs in damp woods, February 11, 1886, A, B. Langlois213.
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
