Schizopora flavipora (Cooke) Ryvarden
no common name
Schizoporaceae

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

Introduction to the Macrofungi

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Distribution of Schizopora flavipora
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Species Information

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.
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)
Notes:
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).

Habitat and Range

Habitat
annual, on dead hardwoods, associated with white rot of dead hardwoods, (Gilbertson), on dead wood or hardwood trees, also sometimes on shrubs, conifers and structural timbers in buildings; late summer to fall, (Buczacki)

Synonyms

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Calocera vermicularis Lloyd
Calopposis nodulosa Lloyd