Summary:
Gloeophyllum carbonarium is "usually easy to recognize by the umber brown, soft and pliable fruitbody with relatively large hexagonal pores and its preference for charred wood" (Gilbertson). The description is derived from Gilbertson(1).
Gloeophyllum carbonarium has been found in BC, WA, OR, ID, ON, AZ, CA, FL, GA, MI, MT, NM, NY, SC, TN, and Nepal, (Gilbertson).
Cap:
growing flat on wood with pore surface exposed, or bent outward to form cap, or nodulose, easily detached, soft, flexible, 10cm long and 0.5cm thick, when cap present it is up to 1cm wide, with rounded margin; upper cap surface umber brown and slightly zoned; tomentose to velvety, soft
Flesh:
rarely more than 0.2cm thick, soft; dark brown
Pores:
1-2 per mm, angular to hexagonal, thin-walled; gray-brown to deep umber brown; tube layer up to 0.5cm thick, "tubes in section with a dark brown trama, darker than the pore surface which may be covered with a paler pruina"
Microscopic:
spores 7-9 x 2-3 microns, cylindric to suballantoid [somewhat curved], smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 30-38 x 5-6.5 microns, narrowly clavate, with basal clamp connection; cystidia none; hyphal system dimitic, generative hyphae 2-4 microns wide, with clamp connections, skeletal hyphae predominant, 2-4 microns wide, "yellowish to rusty brown, thick-walled, unbranched to occasionally dichotomously branched"
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