Spongipellis delectans (Peck) Murrill
spongy mazegill
Cerrenaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
spongy mazegill
Cerrenaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Features include a white bracket on hardwood, with two-layered flesh, large whitish pores, and microscopic characters. The type of Spongipellis (Spongipellis spumeus) appears unrelated to the other two species here in the genus, and the latter have been placed in Cerrenaceae (Justo(6)). The description is derived from Gilbertson(1) except where noted.
Microscopic:
spores 7-9 x 5-7 microns, broadly elliptic to nearly round, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 20-30 x 7-9 microns, clavate, with basal clamp; cystidia none; hyphae monomitic, hyphae of context 4-7 microns wide, colorless in KOH, thin-walled to thick-walled, occasionally branched, with clamp connections; hyphae of trama similar
Spore Deposit:
white (Buczacki)
Notes:
Spongipellis delectans has been found in BC, OR, ON, PQ, AK, DE, GA, IA, IN, MD, MI, MO, MS, MT, NE, NY, OH, PA, TN, VA, and WI, (Gilbertson).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Spongipellis spumeus has regular pores and the pore surface is smooth, whereas S. delectans has "lacerate and dentate dissepiments and often somewhat irregular pores", (Gilbertson).Habitat
annual, single or imbricate [shingled], on dead standing or fallen hardwoods, also causing a heartrot in living trees, especially Populus, associated with a white mottled rot of living or dead hardwoods, (Gilbertson), on rotting hardwood, especially on large old fallen Fagus (beech) trunks causing white pocketed rot, fall, winter, spring, (Buczacki)
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Mitruliopsis flavida Peck
Polyporus delectans Peck