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Pyropolyporus robinsoniae Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus woody, dimidiate, applanate to compressed-ungulate, 5-7X7-10X1-5-3 cm., surface velvety, slightly encrusted, many times sulcate, very rough, tubercular, ferruginous to fulvous, corroded and darker with age ; margin obtuse, velvety, ferruginous, sterile : context woody, fulvous, 3-5 mm. thick ; tubes unevenly stratified, 3-5 mm. long each season, umbrinous within, mouths circular, minute, 4-5 to a mm., edges obtuse, entire; chestnut-brown, glistening: spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 4^; hyphae brown, 5^; cystidia none.
Type collected on Monkey Hill, Jamaica, on decaying roots of a tree, July 11, 1904, Miss W.J. Robinson .
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
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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
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