Haploporus odorus (Sommerf.) Bondartsev & Singer
no common name
Polyporaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Polyporaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Summary:
Features include strong anise odor, bracket-like to shelf-like growth on willow, a pale buff to dingy brown upper surface, light buff corky flesh, pale buff pores, and minutely spiny spores. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1) except where noted.
Odor:
strong of anise
Microscopic:
spores 5-6 x 3-4.5 microns, ovoid to elliptic, minutely but distinctly echinulate (spiny), slightly dextrinoid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 19-27 x 7-9 microns, clavate with sharply narrowed base, with basal clamp; cystidia none; hyphal system trimitic: context generative hyphae 2-3.5 microns wide, "thin-walled, with clamps, rarely branched", context skeletal hyphae 3-5 microns wide, colorless, thick-walled, rarely branched, nonseptate, context binding hyphae 1.5-2.5 microns wide, colorless, thick-walled, much branched, nonseptate, trama hyphae similar but binding hyphae fewer
Notes:
Haploporus odorus has been found in BC (Smithers, Vanderhoof, Fort St. John area, Prince George south to Cinema), south-central NT, northern AB, north-central SK, and southeastern MB, (Ginns(28)).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Trametes suaveolens is similar macroscopically and has an anise odor, but is slightly lighter in color, grows on Populus, Betula and Abies as well as Salix, has a wider range, and microscopically has spores that are larger and smooth, (Gilbertson(1)). Gloeophyllum odoratum is confined to conifers and has cylindric spores measuring 7.5-11.0 x 3.0-4.5 microns, (Ginns(28)). Ischnoderma resinosum has a pore surface that is white to pallid, staining brown to fuscous where bruised, and spores are allantoid, measuring 4-7 x 1.5-2 microns, (Ginns(28)).Habitat
perennial, most commonly on living Salix (willow) also known on Fraxinus (ash), causes white heartrot of living trees, (Gilbertson), also known from single collections on Alnus and Populus, (Ginns(38))
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Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Polyporus odorus Sommerf. : Fr.