Pycnoporellus fulgens (Fr.) Donk
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
Species Information
Summary:
Features include pale orange to rust-colored bracket-like to shelf-like fruitbodies that are tomentose or bald becoming bristly or radially fibrillose, often zoned, and pale orange pores and flesh that turn red with KOH. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1) except where noted.
Chemical Reactions:
flesh and tubes red with KOH
Microscopic:
spores 6-7(9) x 2.5-4 microns, short-cylindric to oblong, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 25-30 x 5-5.5 microns, clavate, simple-septate at base; cystidia frequent, 45-60 x 4-6 microns, projecting up to 35 microns, narrowly cylindric, simple-septate at base; hyphae monomitic, hyphae of context of 2 types: 1) 4-9 microns wide, "pale reddish to brownish in KOH, mostly very thick-walled, with occasional branching, simple-septate", with a very narrow, sinuous lumen, 2) 2.5-4 microns wide, colorless in KOH, thin-walled to moderately thick-walled, with frequent branching, simple-septate
Notes:
Pycnoporellus fulgens has been found in BC, WA, OR, ID, also AB, MB, NF, NS, ON, PQ, PE, AK, CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NY, PA, VT, WI, and WV, (Gilbertson).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Pycnoporellus alboluteus generally grows flat on the wood surface, or may be slightly bent outwards to form cap, and microscopically has larger pores, spores and cystidia, (Gilbertson). P. alboluteus has fruitbodies that are typically spread out on the substrate, sometimes bent outward to form a slight cap, larger pores that are typically greater than 0.1cm in diameter, larger spores 9-14 microns long, and larger cystidia measuring 60-120 x 5-10 microns, (Ginns).Habitat
annual, single or imbricate [shingled], "mainly on conifer logs and slash but also occasionally on hardwoods", associated with brown cubical rot of dead conifers and hardwoods, (Gilbertson), in a Haida Gwaii study, Kroeger(5) found that it was almost invariably associated with old fruitbodies of Fomitopsis pinicola complex, on some cases on the fruitbodies themselves
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Geastrum coronatum (Schaeff.) J. Schroet.
Hydnum fulgens Fr.
Polyporus fibrillosus P. Karst.