Postia angulopora (M.J. Larsen & Lombard) M.J. Larsen & Lombard
No common name
Uncertain

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

Introduction to the Macrofungi

Photograph

© Michael Beug     (Photo ID #90035)


Map

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Distribution of Postia angulopora
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Species Information

Summary:
Features include flat growth on dead Douglas-fir wood, cream to buff pores of irregular size, and microscopic characters that include distinctive contorted thick-walled hyphae in trama. The online Species Fungorum, accessed December 11, 2013 and April 18, 2020, gave the current name as Gilbertsonia angulopora but Mycobank, accessed on the latter date, listed it as Postia angulopora. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1) except where noted.
Microscopic:
spores 5.5-7 x 4-5 microns, broadly elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 25-40 x 7-10 microns, clavate, with basal clamp; cystidia absent; hyphae appearing dimitic, generative hyphae of trama 3-6 microns wide, thin-walled, some with frequent branching, with clamp connections, other hyphae in trama are thick-walled, firm-walled to almost solid, often contorted and lobed or branched, colorless, mostly 3-6 microns wide but with some inflated parts up to 10 microns wide, in lower subiculum and mycelial felts of decayed wood the thick-walled hyphae are more uniform, 2-4 microns wide, most with rare branching, (Gilbertson), generative hyphae 3-6 microns wide, binding hyphae of 2 types a) in the trama, 3-6 microns wide, some segments swollen to 10 microns wide, "contorted, frequently branched, the tips broadly rounded (not attenuated)", and b) in the context next to the tube layer and in mycelial felts in the wood, 2-4 microns wide, "infrequently branched, walls parallel, thick", (Ginns)
Notes:
Postia angulopora has been found in BC and OR.

Habitat and Range

SIMILAR SPECIES
Fibroporia vaillantii is rather similar macroscopically and microscopically, and also causes a brown rot in Douglas-fir, but P. angulopora "differs mainly in the distinctive contorted thick-walled hyphae in the trama and in its lack of rhizomorphs", (Gilbertson). Antrodia gossypium sometimes has rhizomorphs and it lacks "the swollen, contorted, thick-walled binding hyphae", (Ginns).
Habitat
annual, known only on dead fallen Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir), where it causes a brown cubical rot and cream-colored mycelial felts develop in shrinkage cracks

Synonyms

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Discina larryi McKnight
Discina leucoxantha Bres.