Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Fomes ohiensis (Berk.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30 : 230. 1903
Trametes ohiensis Berk. Grevillea 1 : 6S. 1872.
Pileus woody, ungulate, narrow and sometimes decurrent behind, often laterally connate, 0.5-1.5X1-2X0.3-1 cm.; surface minutely velvety to glabrous, zonate, light-brown, becoming black at the base, and concentrically sulcate with age ; margin obtuse, pallid, often undulate: context corky, pallid, indistinctly zonate, 2-5 mm. thick; tubes distinctly stratified, 3-6 mm. long each season, nearly white within, mouths circular, 3 to a mm., edges obtuse, chalky-white, becoming cremeous : spores globose, smooth, hyaline, i conidia ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 7-8X12-13// ; hyphae hyaline, 2-4 // ; cystidia none.
Type locality : Ohio.
HABITAT : Dead branches and structural timber of deciduous trees. Distribution : Eastern Canada to Michigan and south as far as Ohio.
- 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
