Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Fomes ligneus (Berk.) Cooke, Grevillea 13: 119. 1884
Polyporus ligneus Ber^. Ann. Nat. Hist. 3 : 387. 1839.
"^ Fomes hornodermus Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 5 : 368. 1856. (Type fropi Brazil.)
Fomes sulcaius Cooke, Grevillea 12 : 32. 1883. (Type from Demerara, British Guiana.)
Pileus very hard, applanate or ungulate, 5-10X13-15X4-8 cm.; surface smooth, sulcate, dark-brown or black, becoming hornyen crusted and shining with age ; margin obtuse, pallid : context hard and woody, white to pale-umbrinous, 0.5-1 cm. thick, extremely scanty in old specimens ; tubes evenly stratified, hS mm. long each season, white, mouths minute, circular, 3-4 to a mm., edges obtuse, white or slightly avellaneous: spores subglobose or ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 6X7^"; hyphae 6//; cystidia none.
Type locality : The island of St. Vincent.
Habitat : Dead wood.
Distribution : Nicaragua ; Costa Rica ; St. Kitts ; St. Vincent ; Grenada ; also in South
- 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
