Image of Hawks Wing

Description:

Slo.: luskasti luknjiar - Habitat: Mixed, predominantly hard wood forest, almost flat terrain, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh) bedrock, in shade, partly protected from direct rain, average precipitation ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevations 480 m (1.600 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: about 20 cm (8 inch) diameter trunk of a fallen hardwood tree, quite rotten (white root). - Comments: Growing solitary, pileus diameter about 11 cm (4,3 inch), flesh succulent, soft, SP whitish, smell indistinctive (may be on meal?). - Spores smooth, dimensions: 13.1 (SD = 0.9) x 4,7 (SD = 0.5) micr., Q = 2,79 (SD = 0.16), n = 30. Motic B2-211A, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. - Ref.: (1) P. Roger, Muschrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 296. 10-15/4-5 (2) R.M. Daehncke, 1200 Pilze in Farbfotos, AT Verlag (2009), p 1056. 10-14/4-5 (3) M.Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 314. 11-14/4-6 (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 468 10-16/4-6 (5) D.Arora, Mushrooms Demystified, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley (1986), p 561.