User:Sasata/Sandbox/Polyporus elegans
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Polyporus elegans | |
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Species: | P. elegans
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Polyporus elegans |
Polyporus elegans | |
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Pores on hymenium | |
Cap is offset | |
Hymenium is decurrent | |
Stipe is bare | |
Spore print is white | |
Ecology is saprotrophic | |
Edibility is inedible |
Polyporus elegans is a species of fungi in the genus Polyporus. It causes a white rot of dead hardwoods.
Description
[edit]Fruiting bodies are annual, 1.5-7 cm in diameter, 0.5-0.5 mm thick, circular to oblong, centrally to laterally stipitate; pale to dull tan, weathering to nearly white; nearly smooth, leathery, drying rigid. Context white or pallid. Tube surface extending down stalk; pores small, 4-5 per mm, angular; pore surface gray to tan. Stalk 0.5-6 cm long, 2-6 mm thick; black at base or lower half. Spores 6-10 x 2.5-3.5 µm, clyclindrical, hyaline, spore print white. Common, often on branches of hardwoods, later summer, fall.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Knaphus, G.; Huffman, D. M.; Tiffany, L. H. (1989). Mushrooms & other fungi of the midcontinental United States. Ames: Iowa State University Press. p. 211. ISBN 0-8138-1168-6.
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