Skeletocutis stellae (Pilat) Jean Keller
no common name
Incrustoporiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Incrustoporiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
Summary:
Features include a perennial, cream to tan pore surface, a floccose to fimbriate cream margin, and microscopic characters including small allantoid spores and incrusted hyphae projecting from the dissepiment edges. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1).
Microscopic:
spores 4.6-6 x 0.7-1 microns, allantoid, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 10-16 x 4-5 microns, clavate, with basal clamp; cystidia none, cystidioles inconspicuous, 12.5-18 x 3-4.5 microns wide, fusoid, with basal clamp, hyphal pegs present; hyphae dimitic, skeletal hyphae of subiculum 2-6 microns wide, colorless, thick-walled, nonseptate, rarely branched, generative hyphae of subiculum 2-4 microns wide, "thin-walled, nodose-septate, with occasional branching"; hyphae of trama similar, "projecting hyphae at dissepiment edges heavily incrusted"
Notes:
Skeletocutis stellae has been found in BC, WA, OR, ID, AB, NF, ON, AZ, CA, CO, MT, WY, ME, NY, and Europe, (Gilbertson).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Skeletocutis subincarnata has an annual fruiting body and slightly wider spores.Habitat
perennial, on dead wood of conifers, especially Picea (spruce), associated with white mottled rot of dead conifers
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Hydnellum cyaneotinctum (Peck) Banker
Poria stellae Pilat