Trametes hirsuta (Wulfen: Fr.) Pilat
hairy bracket
Polyporaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
hairy bracket
Polyporaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Species Information
Summary:
{See also Trametes versicolor and similar polypores Table.} Features include 1) a leathery to rigid, bracket-like or shelf-like fruitbody that is hairy and colored various brown shades (often grayish with a brown margin), the surface concentrically grooved or zoned but the zones not sharply contrasting in color, 2) whitish to brownish or grayish pores, and 3) duplex flesh.
Odor:
slightly anise-like (Breitenbach)
Taste:
somewhat bitter (Breitenbach)
Microscopic:
spores 6-9 x 2-2.5 microns, cylindric, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 15-19.5 x 5-7 microns, clavate, with basal clamp; cystidia absent, hyphal pegs occasionally present; hyphae trimitic, generative hyphae of context 2.5-6 microns wide, thin-walled, with clamp connections, skeletal hyphae of context 3-7 microns wide, colorless, thick-walled, often sinuous, nonseptate, with rare branching, binding hyphae of context 2-4 microns wide, "thick-walled, nonseptate, much branched"; hyphae of trama similar, (Gilbertson), spores 4.5-7.5 x 1.5-3 microns, cylindric to sausage-shaped, smooth, (Arora)
Spore Deposit:
whitish or pallid (Arora)
Notes:
Trametes hirsuta has been found in BC, WA, OR, ID, AB, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PQ, SK, AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WI, WV, and WY, (Gilbertson).
EDIBILITY
too tough (Arora)
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Trametes versicolor is more brightly colored and less hairy, and tends to be smaller, (Arora). T. versicolor is thinner-fleshed and finely velvety but not hirsute (Breitenbach). T. versicolor is usually more obviously zoned, (Trudell). Trametes pubescens is usually snow-white, thin-fleshed, and without colored zones, (Breitenbach). T. pubescens has flesh that is not duplex (Trudell). T. pubescens and Trametes ochracea "are tomentose with pale margins" (Ginns). See also SIMILAR section of Coriolopsis trogii and Oxyporus cuneatus.Habitat
annual, single or "more often in groups, fused rows, or overlapping clusters on dead hardwoods (or occasionally conifers)", (Arora), annual, on dead hardwood, rarely on conifer wood, associated with a white rot of hardwoods, (Gilbertson), all year (Buczacki)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Helvella leucophaea Pers.
Helvella mitra L.
Polyporus hirsutus Wulfen: Fr.