Fomitiporia tsugina Murrill
No common name
Hymenochaetaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
No common name
Hymenochaetaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Microscopic:
spores 6-7.5 x 5-6.5 microns, round to nearly round, smooth, strongly dextrinoid, colorless, slightly thick-walled; basidia 4-spored, 12-14 x 8-9 microns, broadly ellipsoid, simple-septate at base; setae lacking; ventricose thin-walled cystidioid elements present; hyphae of context of two types, mostly the first: 1) 2-5 microns wide, "pale yellowish brown in Melzer''s reagent, thick-walled, aseptate or with rare septa", 2) 1-1.5 microns wide, nearly colorless, aseptate, thick-walled, much-branched; hyphae of trama similar, (Gilbertson)
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Fomitiporia robusta grows on hardwoods but has been regarded in the past as the same species as Fomitiporia tsugina (as Phellinus hartigii), leading to uncertainty in distribution, (Gilbertson).Habitat
perennial, on living and dead conifers, usually fruiting on the underside of branches and in branch crotches, most common on Tsuga (hemlock), associated with a uniform white rot of heartwood of living conifers, continuing in dead trees and logs, (Gilbertson)
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Pseudoplectania vogesiaca (Pers.) Seaver