Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Inonotus fruticum (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey
Club 31: 601. 1904.
Poly porus fruticum Berk. & Curt. Jour, r^inn. Soc. 10: 310. 1868.
Pileus soft, spongy, thin, dimidiate or vertically attached, 1-2.5 cm. broad, 2-5 mm. thick ; surface spongy-tomentose, azonate, flavous to fulvous ; margin thin and undulate, becoming blackish when bruised : context flavous to ferruginous, spongy, 1-3 mm. thick, with a very thin, firm darker layer next to the tubes ; tubes short, ferruginous to fulvous, about 1 mm. long, mouths angular to irregular, 3 to a mm., edges thin, toothed, ferruginous to fuliginous, hoary when young : spores subglobose, smooth, pale-ferruginous, 3-4 /i.
Type locality : Cuba.
Habitat : Small living branches of orange and oleander.
Distribution: Cuba.
- 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
