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Pulvinula archeri (Berk. in Hook.) Rifai
no common name
Pyronemataceae

Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.

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Distribution of Pulvinula archeri
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Species Information

Summary:
Pulvinula archeri produces an orange, convex disc up to 0.7cm wide with even margins, featuring its microscopic characters.

The description is derived from Pfister(7). It is found in BC, WA, OR, and ID, (Larsen), and Europe including Austria (Pfister).

Upper surface:
up to 0.7cm wide, convex, margins more or less even; orange

Microscopic:
spores 9-10.5(11.5) microns in diameter, round, smooth-walled, generally with a single large oil droplet; asci 8-spored or fewer, 135-145 x 10-11 microns, with or without prominent croziers, tapering towards the base; paraphyses slender 1-2 microns wide, "circinate and pigment-filled, mostly branched apically"; hymenium less than 150 microns thick; ectal excipulum relatively small-celled, cells (10)13-15 microns in diameter, globose to subglobose, medullary excipulum of textura intricata, hyphae 2 microns wide

Habitat / Range

gregarious to scattered

Status Information

Origin Status	Provincial Status	BC List (Red Blue List)	COSEWIC
Native	SNR	Unknown	Not Listed

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Synonyms and Alternate Names

Phellinus ferrugineofuscus (P. Karst.) Bourdot
Poria ferrugineofusca P. Karst.

Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Links

Genetic information (NCBI Taxonomy Database)
Taxonomic Information from the World Flora Online
Index Fungorium
Taxonomic reference:

Additional Range and Status Information Links

NatureServe Explorer
California Fungi (MykoWeb)

Additional Photo Sources

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Glossaries

Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest

Related Databases

Matchmaker - Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
Keys to Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest Fungi--Online Journal

Species References

Pfister(7), Seaver(1) (as Lamprospora gemmea), Larsen(1)

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Recommended citation: Author, Date. Page title. In Klinkenberg, Brian. (Editor) 2020. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia [eflora.bc.ca]. Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. [Accessed: 2024-05-23 1:05:02 PM ]

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