Peniophorella guttulifera (P. Karst.) K.H. Larss.
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 Peniophorella guttulifera
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Species Information

Summary:
Features include 1) resupinate growth on wood, 2) tightly attached patches that are whitish or cream at first, becoming darker and finally ochraceous, the surface with watery droplets when fresh, and when dry globules visible under 50x lens (on the cystidia), 3) spores that are allantoid, smooth, and inamyloid, 4) blunt-cylindric cystidia that are crystal-encrusted and bear an apical globule, and 5) a monomitic hyphal system, the hyphae with clamp connections.
Microscopic:
SPORES 9-12 x 3-4 microns, allantoid, inamyloid, thin-walled, containing oil droplets or oily inclusions; BASIDIA 4-spored, 20-30 x 5-6 microns, subclavate to almost cylindric, slightly constricted or sinuous, with basal clamp connection; CYSTIDIA conspicuous, 60-80 x 10-20 microns, "mostly cylindric, apically blunt, with thickened walls, in the upper part encrusted with doublepyramidic crystals and with an apical globule of non-crystalline, yellowish or brownish matter"; HYPHAE monomitic 3-4(5) microns wide, thin-walled, richly branched, with clamp connections at all septa, (Eriksson), SPORES 7-10 x 3-4.5 microns, even, in a spore collection white, (Burt)
Notes:
Peniophorella guttulifera has been found in BC, OR, MB, ON, AL, AZ, AR, IL, LA, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, OH, and VT, (Ginns), as well as Finland and Sweden, (Eriksson).

Habitat and Range

Habitat
on decayed barkless hardwood, (Eriksson); on hardwood and conifer wood; Acer negundo (Boxelder), A. saccharum (Sugar Maple), Alnus oblongifolia (Arizona alder), Betula papyrifera (Paper Birch), Platanus wrightii (Arizona Sycamore), Populus grandidentata (Bigtooth Aspen), Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen), Quercus arizonica (Arizona White Oak), Salix sp. (willow); associated with a white rot, (Ginns)