Phlebia cretacea (Bourdot & Galzin) J. Erikss. & Hjortstam
no common name
Meruliaceae

Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.

Introduction to the Macrofungi

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Distribution of Phlebia cretacea
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Species Information

Summary:
Features include 1) resupinate growth on barkless conifer wood and wooden fences, 2) a thin, waxy, white spore-bearing surface that is smooth to tuberculate, 3) spores that are allantoid, smooth, and inamyloid, often with 2 oil droplets, 4) cystidia that are numerous, subfusiform with an apical head, with thin or slightly thickened walls, normally with an encrustation that easily falls off in the slides, and 5) a monomitic hyphal system, the hyphae thin-walled, richly branched and embedded in gelatinous matrix. Material from BC "agrees in microstructure but deviates in not having pure white fruitbodies (sordid in the herbarium)", (Eriksson).
Microscopic:
SPORES 6-9 x 1.3-2 microns, allantoid, smooth, inamyloid, acyanophilic, thin-walled, often with 2 oil droplets; BASIDIA 4-spored, 20-30 x 3-3.5 microns, narrowly clavate, with basal clamp connection; CYSTIDIA numerous, 30-55 microns long, 5-6 microns wide at widest part, subfusiform with an apical head, with thin or slightly thickened walls, apical head 3-5 microns wide, "normally with an encrustation, which easily falls off in the slides"; HYPHAE monomitic: hyphae 2-3 microns wide, thin-walled, "richly branched and embedded in gelatinous matrix", "basidium-bearing subhymenial hyphae more or less volute, with marks from old, dissolved basidia", no subiculum, (Eriksson)
Notes:
It has been found in BC, ON, MN, and NY, (Ginns), as well as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, (Eriksson).

Habitat and Range

SIMILAR SPECIES
Cystidia with ring-like remnants of the apical encrustation may resemble those of Resinicium furfuraceum (Eriksson).
Habitat
on barkless conifer wood, in open biotypes, also on wooden fences, (Eriksson), on Thuja occidentalis (Northern White-cedar) (Ginns)