Antrodia mappa (Overh. & J. Lowe) Miettinen & Vlasak
No common name
Fomitopsidaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
No common name
Fomitopsidaceae
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 1) a white to pale buff pore surface growing flat on wood with a fringed margin, 2) flesh that is very thin, and 3) microscopic characters including large narrowly cylindric spores and abundantly clamped and branched hyphae. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1).
Microscopic:
spores 8-12 x 2-3 microns, cylindric, slightly curved, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored 16-21 x 6.5-8 microns, clavate, with basal clamp; cystidia none; hyphae monomitic, generative hyphae of context 2.5-4 microns wide, colorless in KOH, thin-walled to thick-walled, often branched, with abundant clamp connections, hyphae of trama 2-2.5 microns wide, similar
Notes:
Antrodia mappa has been found in BC, ID, NF, and NY, (Gilbertson(1) who give a range that includes AK). It is known in BC from one report in a reference published in 1946 (Ginns).
Habitat and Range
Habitat
annual, mainly on dead conifer wood, a few records on hardwood, rail fences and timber bridges are likely substrates; associated with brown cubical rot
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Craterellus cornucopioides (L.: Fr.) Pers. sensu auct. (misapplied