Trichaptum subchartaceum (Murrill) Ryvarden
no common name
Uncertain
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Uncertain
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Features include 1) a shelf-like or bracket-like, fairly thick fruitbody that is gray to pale buff and hairy but not zoned, 2) a violaceous pore surface, and 3) growth only on aspen and cottonwood. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1).
Microscopic:
spores 7.5-11 x 2-3 microns, cylindric, slightly curved, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 18-25 x 5.5-7 microns, clavate, with basal clamp; cystidia abundant, 5-7 microns wide and projecting to 20 microns, cylindric, thin-walled to slightly thick-walled, apically incrusted, with basal clamp; hyphae dimitic, generative hyphae of context 2.5-3.5 microns wide, thin-walled, with clamp connections, skeletal hyphae of context 2.5-6 microns wide, colorless, thick-walled, nonseptate; hyphae of trama similar
Notes:
In BC Trichaptum subchartaceum is known only from southwest of Fort Nelson and north of Valemont (Ginns). It has been found in BC, ID, AB, MB, YT, AK, AZ, CO, CT, ME, MN, MT, NM, NY, UT, WI, and WY, (Gilbertson).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Trichaptum biforme has thin, often petal-like or fan-shaped fruitbodies that occur on many hardwoods and pores develop into teeth. See also SIMILAR section of Trichaptum abietinum.Habitat
annual, restricted "to dead Populus and common on aspen and cottonwood", associated with white pocket rot of aspen and cottonwood logs and slash
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Coriolus subchartaceus Murrill
Hydnum alutaceum Fr.
Hyphodontia alutacea (Fr.) J. Erikss. Symb. Bot. Upsal.