Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Fomitiporia cinchonensis Murrill, sp. nov
Broadly effused, irregular, inseparable, rigid, of medium weight, 3-6 mm. thick ; margin thin, adnate, determinate, lobed, very narrowly sterile, flavous-luteous when young, brownish-black with age : context conspicuous, dark-fulvous to latericeous ; h3rmenium convex, nearly even, grayishumbrinous at maturity, melleous when very young, indistinctly stratified in 2-3 layers; tubes slender, whitish-stuffed, avellaneous within, 1-2 mm. long each season, mouths punctiform, circular, 5-6 to a mm., edges thick, entire: spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 2-3 ^ ; hyphae ferruginous ; cystidia dark-fulvous, cuspidate, ventricose at the base, 12-18X3-5 ii.
Type collected at Cinchona, Jamaica, 1650 meters, on decayed deciduous wood, November 2, 1902, F. 5. Earle 411.
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
