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Amauroderma coffeatum (Berk.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey
Club 32 : 367. 1905.
Polyporiis coffeaius Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist. 3 : 385. 1839.
Cespitose; pileus solid, corky, suborbicular, oblique, 18-20 cm. broad; surface smooth, thinly encrusted, opaque, reddish-brown; margin pallid to brown, obtuse: context corky, pallid, pale-isabelline in dried specimens; tubes decurrent, pallid, mouths subcircular, 5 to a mm., darker than the context, edges obtuse, entire : spores not examined : stipe laterally attached, elongate, cylindrical, subequal, obscure-brown, mixed with coffee color, pruinose, pallid and soft-corky, becoming fistulose, 3.5 cm. long, 1 cm. thick.
Type locality : St. Vincent, West Indies.
Habitat : Decaying trunks.
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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Amauroderma flaviporum Murrill, sp. nov
Pileus hard, rigid, circular, depressed at the center, concave below, 8-12X8-12X1 cm.; surface opaque, velvety, umbrinous with numerous bay-black zones, radiate-rugose, not sulcate ; margin paler, velvety, subzonate, deflexed, at least when dry, acute, undulate to lobed : context white, corky, homogeneous, 5 mm. thick ; hymenium adnate; tubes very pale avellaneous, not stratified, 2-4 mm. long, mouths angular, 4-5 to a mm., stuffed when young, edges thin, entire, flavous when fresh, cremeous-melleous in dried specimens : spores ovoid, truncate, yellowish-brown, roughly echinulate, 6-7X4-5/^^: stipe thick, central, slightly flattened, equal or expanding above, erect, opaque, horny-encrusted, velvety, dark melleous-luteous, white and punky within, 6-8 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. thick.
Type collected at Hope mine, Jamaica, on Melicocca bijuga, October 25, 1902, F. S. Earle 105. 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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