Wrightoporia lenta (Overh. & J. Lowe) Pouzar
no common name
Bondarzewiaceae

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

Introduction to the Macrofungi

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Distribution of Wrightoporia lenta
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Species Information

Summary:
Features include flat growth on conifer wood with spore surface exposed, white to cream pore surface with a white margin, round to angular or slightly sinuous pores, 2-3 per millimeter on average, thin white flesh, and microscopic characters including finely asperulate amyloid spores, generative hyphae with clamp connections, dextrinoid skeletal hyphae, and rare gloeoplerous hyphae. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1).
Microscopic:
spores 5-6 x 4.5-5.5 microns, round, "finely asperulate", amyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 15-20 x 4-8 microns, clavate; cystidia and other sterile hymenial elements absent; hyphal system dimitic, generative hyphae 1-3 microns wide, with clamp connections, skeletal hyphae 1.5-3 microns wide, thick-walled to solid, strongly dextrinoid, gloeoplerous hyphae "rare and scattered, irregular and often with blunt side-branches, slightly yellowish when mounted in KOH, but negative in Melzer''s reagent", width variable, mostly 3-6 microns, but parts up to 15 microns wide
Notes:
Wrightoporia lenta has been found in BC, WA, ON, FL, GA, NY, and SC, and known as well "from Central and South America and Africa", (Gilbertson).

Habitat and Range

Habitat
on "conifers in the United States, on hardwoods and palms in subtropical and tropical areas"; associated with a brown rot