Anomoporia bombycina (Fr.) Pouzar
no common name
Amylocorticiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Amylocorticiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Summary:
Features include flat growth on wood, pale brown-violet color, and microscopic characters including amyloid spores. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1). It is common in North America.
Microscopic:
spores 5-7 x 3-5 microns, broadly elliptic, smooth, amyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 12-18 x 5-7 microns, broadly clavate, with long sterigmata, with basal clamp connection; cystidia and other sterile hymenial elements absent; hyphal system "monomitic, generative hyphae with clamps, thin-walled, richly branched, hyaline but with a few scattered yellowish crystals, 2-6 microns wide, in the context mostly 4-6 microns wide"
Notes:
Anomoporia bombycina has been found in BC, WA, OR, ID, AB, ON, PQ, AK, AZ, CA, CO, MA, MI, MT, NH, NM, NY, UT, WV, and WY, and also in Europe, USSR, China, and Japan, (Gilbertson)
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Anomoporia alboluteus is rare, has a yellow pore surface and yellow rhizomorphs, and has smaller spores, (Gilbertson). Anomoloma myceliosum has a white pore surface, white rhizomorphs, and smaller spores, (Gilbertson). See also SIMILAR section of Anomoloma albolutescens.Habitat
annual; on conifer wood, causing a brown rot
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Clavaria nebulosa Peck
Clavaria purpurea Fr.
Polyporus bombycinus Fr.
Poria coniferarum D.V. Baxter
Poria fulvella res.