Cerrena unicolor (Bull.: Fr.) Murrill
mossy maze polypore
Cerrenaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
mossy maze polypore
Cerrenaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Species Information
Summary:
{See also Trametes versicolor and similar polypores Table.} Cerrena unicolor is easy to recognize because of the hirsute (coarsely hairy) cap, the black line in the flesh, and the labyrinthine pore surface. This species was identified as the fungal symbiont of the wood wasp Tremex columba on Fagus grandifolia in eastern Canada.
Microscopic:
spores 5-7 x 2.5-4 microns, cylindric-elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 20-25 x 5-6 microns, clavate, with basal clamp; cystidia 40-60 x 4-5 microns, hyphoid (not clearly differentiated from vegetative hyphae), thin-walled, with basal clamp; hyphal system trimitic: generative context hyphae 2-4 microns wide, thin-walled, nodose-septate, skeletal context hyphae 2.5-5 microns wide, thick-walled, aseptate, binding hyphae 2-4 microns wide, thick-walled, aseptate, much-branched, tramal hyphae similar, (Gilbertson), spores 5.5-7 x 3-3.5, elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, colorless, (Breitenbach)
Spore Deposit:
white (Phillips)
Notes:
Cerrena unicolor has been found in BC, WA, OR, ID, AB, MB, NS, NWT, ON, PQ, AK, AR, CO, CT, DE, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV, and WY, and it is widespread in Asia and Europe, (Gilbertson).
EDIBILITY
no (Phillips)
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Daedalea quercina and Daedaleopsis confragosa have fewer hairs (Lincoff); Irpex lacteus has long flattened tooth-like tubes (Lincoff); Gloeophyllum saepiarium has brown spore-bearing surface that is gill-like or with poroid or tooth-like surface or with elongated pores, and upper surface is rusty brown to dark brown or maroon brown, often with yellow or orangish zones; Lenzites betulina has spore-bearing surface that is mostly gill-like, but forked and fused together in places. See also SIMILAR section of Daedaleopsis confragosa.Habitat
annual, on dead wood of many genera of hardwoods, rarely on conifers, causing white rot of dead hardwoods, (Gilbertson), on living hardwoods as wound parasite, or dead trunks, as well as stumps and hardwood on ground, (Breitenbach), fall (Buczacki)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Daedalea cinerea Fr.
Daedalea unicolor Bull.: Fr.
Fomes pini (Thore: Fr.) P. Karst.
Phellinus pini (Thore: Fr.) A. Ames
Trametes unicolor (Bull.: Fr.) Cooke