Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Fomes subferreus Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus corky to woody, conchate or applanate, imbricate, usually longitudinally effused, 3-9X5-15X1-2 cm.; surface velvety, rugose-striate, slightly sulcate, black, with traces of purple, becoming glabrous and gray with age ; margin subobtuse, pallid, marked with purplish-black blotches : context punky, isabelline, 0.5-1 cm. thick ; tubes unevenly stratified, 2-3 mm. long each season, glistening white, discolored in the older layers, mouths circular, 5 to a mm., edges obtuse, glistening, milk-white to avellaneous or isabelline:
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spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 3//; hyphae hyaline, 4/^; cystidia none.
Type collected at Herradura, Cuba, March 7, 1905, on a decayed deciduous log in low woods, F. S". Earle & W. A . Murrill 148.
Distribution : Cuba ; Honduras ; Costa Rica.
- 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
