Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Amauroderma renatum (Berk.) Murrill
Polyporus renatus Berk. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. 8 : 170. 1856.
Pileus lateral, very thin, rigid when dry, fan-shaped to reniform, attenuate behind, 1-2x1.5-3X0.1-0.2 cm.; surface silky, zonate, slightly rugose, castaneous, becoming glabrous and avellaneous-isabelline with age; margin very thin, pallid, entire to undulate or lobed : context punky, bay, homogeneous, 0.5-1 mm. thick ; tubes not stratified, though apparently reviving, 1-1.5 mm. long, murinous to umbrinous within, mouths hexagonal, pure white at first, becoming umbrinous with age, 5 to a mm., edges at first very thick, becoming thinner, entire : stipe very long, erect or somewhat flexuose, laterally attached, slightly expanding above, frequently branched either near the middle or at the apex, avellaneous to umbrinous, opaque, finely tomentose, fulvous and floccose within, 10-20 cm. lon^, 1-3 mm, thick.
Type locality : Panure, Brazil.
Habitat ; On the ground, usually attached to buried decaying wood.
Distribution: Nicaragua; Jamaica; also in Brazil.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
