Fibricium lapponicum J. Erikss.
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 Fibricium lapponicum
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Species Information

Summary:
Fibricium lapponicum is recognized by "fibrous skeletal hyphae together with encrusted cystidia". Features include 1) resupinate growth on wood, 2) cream to pale ochraceous smooth spore-bearing surface, and a fibrillose margin with small rhizomorphs, 3) spores that are elliptic, smooth, and inamyloid with oil droplets or inclusions, 4) cystidia that are numerous in some mature specimens, thick-walled, tapering to a blunt apex, encrusted when fully developed, and 5) a dimitic hyphal system, the skeletal hyphae fibrous and the generative hyphae with clamp connections.
Microscopic:
SPORES 6-6.5 x 3-3.5 microns, elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, thin-walled, with oil droplets or irregular oily inclusions; BASIDIA 4-spored, 25-30 x 5-6 microns, when young some may be longer (to 40-45 microns); CYSTIDIA few or rare when young, numerous in some mature specimens, 40-70 x 7-11 microns, "tapering to the obtuse apex, with thickened walls, encrusted when fully developed"; HYPHAE dimitic: generative hyphae 2.5-4 microns wide, thin-walled, richly branched, with anastomoses and with clamp connections, skeletal hyphae 1.5-2.5 microns wide, thick-walled, without branches and clamp connections, subhymenium "composed of densely joined generative hyphae, subiculum mainly of abundant skeletal hyphae"
Notes:
It has been found in BC (Wells Gray National Park), Sweden, and Finland, (Eriksson).

Habitat and Range

SIMILAR SPECIES
Fibricium rude has smaller spores and cystidia that are not encrusted (the cystidia may have a cap of non-crystalline substance that is dissolved in KOH), (Eriksson).
Habitat
on much decayed wood of conifers: Pinus sylvestris (Scotch Pine) and Picea abies (Norway Spruce), (Eriksson)