Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Aurantiporellus alboluteus (Ellis & Ev.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey
Club 32: 486. 1905.
Pomes alboluteus Ellis & Kv. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1895 : 413. 1895. Polyporus alboluteus Ellis & Ev. Bull. Torrey Club 25 : 513. 1898.
Pileus soft, spongy, effused, laterally connate, narrowly reflexed at times, but usually entirely resupinate, 5-6 cm. broad, 1-4 cm. thick; surface anoderm, velvety, azonate, orange-colored, becoming slightly encrusted and darker with age; margin thin, reflexed, concolorous : context very soft, spongy, orange-colored, absorbing water to a remarkable degree, 0.5-1.5 cm. thick; tubes annual, light orange-colored, very large, 1-2 cm. long, mouths irregular, 1-2 mm. in diameter, ed'ges thin, concolorous, somewhat fragile, more pallid on their extreme margin, lacerate with age : spores oblong, smooth, hyaline, 8-12 X 3 /i.
Type locality : Colorado, 3000 meters, on charred trunks of Abies subalpina. Habitat : Dead coniferous trunks projecting from the snow. Distribution: Colorado.
- 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
