Summary:
Also listed in Polypores category. Features include 1) resupinate growth on hardwood, 2) a whitish to cream pore surface with angular to maze-like small pores that split to form teeth, 3) spores that are small, elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, and colorless, 4) fusoid cystidioles that barely project, and 5) a monomitic hyphal system, the hyphae with abundant small clamp connections, terminal inflations on some hyphae, others with thick-walled, nonseptate, terminal segments that resemble skeletal hyphae.
Schizopora flavipora has been found in OR, CA, FL, LA, TX, (Gilbertson). It has been found in BC, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Romania, Spain, Cameroon, Gabon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Iran, China, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Australia, (Langer).
Fruiting body:
resupinate, usually developing from fusion of smaller fruitbodies and becoming widely spread out, "leathery when fresh, becoming corky or tough-fibrous when dried, not readily separable"; margin usually sterile, up to 0.2cm wide, whitish, fimbriate [fringed]; pores 3-5 per mm, angular to daedaloid [maze-like], with thin walls that split to form irpiciform teeth; whitish to cream, discoloring to buff on drying; tube layer up to 0.3cm, colored as flesh and continuous with it; context less than 0.1cm thick, corky when dry, not zoned; cream to buff, (Gilbertson), resupinate, irregular, forming spreading patches, "tightly attached to substrate, poroid", margin usually distinct, paler and sterile; pores 3-5 per millimeter, angular, tubes 0.1-0.4cm deep, whitish; flesh "white-cream, soft, fibrous"; spore deposit white, (Buczacki)
Microscopic:
SPORES 3.5-5 x 2.5-3.5 microns, elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; BASIDIA 4-spored, 12-15 x 5-6 microns, clavate with slight median constriction, with basal clamp connection; CYSTIDIA absent, CYSTIDIOLES scarcely projecting, 3-4 microns wide, fusoid; HYPHAE monomitic, generative hyphae of subiculum 2-6 microns wide, colorless in KOH, thin-walled to thick-walled, often branched, with abundant small clamp connections, some ending in spherical thin-walled swollen apex up to 12 microns wide, others with thick-walled nonseptate terminal segments that resemble skeletal hyphae, these with wall often thinning toward the apex; hyphae of trama similar, (Gilbertson), SPORES 4.5-5.5 x 3-3.5 microns, elliptic, smooth, inamyloid; CYSTIDIA obscure; HYPHAE monomitic, (Buczacki)
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