User:Sasata/Sandbox/Polyporus melanopus
| Polyporus melanopus | |
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| Species: | P. melanopus
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| Polyporus melanopus | |
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Boletus melanopus Sw. (1810) | |
Polyporus melanopus | |
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 | Pores on hymenium |
 | Cap is offset |
 | Hymenium is decurrent |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is white |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic |
 | Edibility is inedible |
Polyporus melanopus is a species of fungi in the genus Polyporus.
Description
[edit]Fruitbodies erect, solitary or gregarious, centrally or eccentrically stalked. Cap 2-10 cm in diameter, 2-5 mm thick, at first convex, becoming depressed in the center and somewhat funnel-shaped, round, with a wavy or lobed, thin, deflexed margin, upper surface smooth, finely velvety or floccose and radially fibrillose, pale ochraceous or yellowish brown when young, more reddish or purplish brown and wrinkled when old, lower surface white to cream, or straw-colored, pores 4-7 per mm. Stalk 1.5-5.5 x 0.3-1.5 cm, velvety and dark brown when young, becoming black and longitudinally wrinkled when old, flesh white. Pores ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 6-9 x 3-4 µm. On dead wood buried in the soil.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Ellis, J. B.; Ellis, Martin B. (1990). Fungi without gills (hymenomycetes and gasteromycetes): an identification handbook. London: Chapman and Hall. p. 157. ISBN 0-412-36970-2.
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