Loweporus lividus (Kalchbr.) J. E. Wright 1976

Fomitiporia cubensis Murrill, sp. nov
Effused, irregular, inseparable, rigid, 1-2:5 cm. thick; margin obtuse, elevated, narrowly sterile, glabrous or finely tomentose, undulate, ashy-white, blackening with age : context conspicuous, umbrinous, punky ; hymenium very uneven, colliculose, more or less convex, pure ashy-white when young, discolored when older, distinctly and many times stratified; tubes whitish-stuffed, umbrinous in the older layers, grayish -avellaneous in recent growths, abouft 3 mm. long each season, mouths circular, 4 to a mm., edges obtuse, rigid, entire: spores globose, ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 4-5 /£ long; hyphae subhyaline to pale-brown, 3-4 /i; cystidia none.
Type collected at Ciego de Avila, Cuba, on an old log in a field, March 21, 1905, F. S. Earle <^ W. A. Murrill 627.
Distribution : Cuba and Costa Rica.