Summary:
Features include flat growth on wood, a white pore surface, a wide white fringed margin with white rhizomorphs, and microscopic characters including amyloid spores. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1).
Anomoloma myceliosum has been found in BC, WA, OR, ID, AB, NF, ON, CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MT, NC, NY, WY, Europe, USSR, China, and Japan, (Gilbertson).
Cap:
up to 0.2cm thick, lying flat on wood, easily separable, soft to brittle, margin wide, fimbriate (fringed) and usually with conspicuous rhizomorphs, margin white
Flesh:
0.1cm thick, soft; white, sometimes with more yellow zone close to substrate
Pores:
2-4 per mm. at maturity, regular when young and fresh, becoming angular and irregular, usually thin-walled; white to pale cream; tube layer up to 0.2cm thick, colored as pore surface
Microscopic:
spores 3.5-4.5 x 2.5-3 microns, cylindric-elliptic, smooth, amyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 12-20 x 4-5 microns, clavate, with basal clamp connection; cystidia and other sterile hymenial elements absent; hyphal system "monomitic, generative hyphae with clamps, thin-walled, with frequent branching", 2.5-4 microns wide
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