Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pyropolyporus roseocinereus Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus woody, hard, applanate to compressed-ungulate, often vertically attached, 5-8 X 7-14 X 2-4 cm.; surface tomentose, becoming glabrous, horny-encrusted, repeatedly zonate-sulcate, fulvous to reddish-brown ; margin acute, undulate, ferruginous, tomentose : context woody, very thin, light-fulvous, 1-2 mm. thick ; tubes indistinctly stratified, 1-2 mm. long each season, fulvous within, mouths circular, very minute, 5-6 to a mm., edges obtuse, entire, roseocinereous to smoky-gray: spores globose to ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 3^X5-6/^ ; hyphae brown, 8/^ ; cystidia none.
Type collected at Alto Cedro, Cuba, on dead wood in a dense virerin forest March 19 190S F. S. Earle <2f W. A. Murrill 561. ' '
Distribution : Costa Rica ; 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
