Diplomitoporus crustulinus (Bres.) Domanski
no common name
Uncertain
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Uncertain
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Distribution of Diplomitoporus crustulinus
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Species Information
Summary:
Diplomitoporus crustulinus is recognized by a deeply cracked, evenly cream to pale straw-colored pore surface growing flat on wood. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1).
Microscopic:
spores 5-7 x 2-2.5 microns, allantoid [curved sausage-shaped] to cylindric, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 15-20 x 4-6 microns, clavate; cystidia "none, but pointed non-projecting cystidioles occur scattered among the basidia 15-20 x 5-7 microns"; hyphal system dimitic: generative hyphae 2-4 microns wide, thin-walled, with clamp connections, skeletal hyphae predominant, 2-6 microns wide, solid to thick-walled, colorless and inamyloid, rarely branched and straight
Notes:
Diplomitoporus crustulinus has been found in BC, ID, AB, NF, ON, AK, AZ, CO, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NY, TN, UT, VT, WY, and Europe, (Gilbertson)
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Diplomitoporus lindbladii has a pore surface that is gray to white and skeletal hyphae are dextrinoid or amyloid (Ginns).Habitat
annual, on dead conifers, very rarely on angiosperms
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Oligoporus fragilis (Fr.) Gilb. & Ryvarden
Polyporus fragilis Fr.
Poria chromatica Overh.
Poria conwayana Pilat
Poria crustulina Bres.