Stereopsis humphreyi (Burt) Redhead & D.A. Reid
no common name
Stereopsidaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Stereopsidaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Species Information
Summary:
Also listed in Clubs and Other categories. Features include white, tough, thin-fleshed, dry fruitbodies with kidney-shaped to funnel-shaped or spatula-shaped cap, often with convoluted margins, smooth or almost smooth spore-bearing surface underneath, and upright lateral stem.
Microscopic:
spores 6.5-9 x 3.5-5.5 microns, narrowly to broadly oval to elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, prominent oblique apiculus, walls thin to pronounced, mostly with one droplet; basidia (3-)4-spored, 36-49 x 4-5.2 microns, narrowly clavate, with basal clamp connection; cystidia none; clamp connections present, (Redhead)
Notes:
Stereopsis humphreyi is found at least in BC, WA, and OR, (Trudell). The type was from WA (Burt(9)).
Habitat and Range
Habitat
gregarious on mossy needle beds, cones, twigs, fern fronds, and mosses, in coniferous forest, (Redhead), on cones and other litter of conifers, especially Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce), in rather wet areas, (Trudell)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Geastrum limbatum Fr.
Hydnum paradoxum Fr.
Polyporus versiporus Pers.