Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pyropolyporus everhartii (Ellis & Gall.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey
Club 30 : 114. 1903.
Mucronopoi'us Everhartii 'E'W.^s & Gall. Jour. Myc. 5; 141. 1889.
Pileus woody, dimidiate, ungulate, broadly attached behind, 6-10X6-15X3-8 cm.;
surface glabrous, slightly encrusted, deeply sulcate, not polished, gray to brownish-black,
slightly rimose in age; margin obtuse, covered with ferruginous tomentum, becoming gray
and glabrous: context corky to woody, repeatedly zoned, fulvous in dried specimens,
"2-3 cm. thick; tubes evenly stratified, 0.5-1 cm. long each season, fulvous, mouths circular, 4 to a mm., edges rather thin, entire, ferruginous to fulvous, glistening, the hymenium becoming much cracked in age : spores globose, smooth, ferruginous, 3-4.5 z^; spines abundant, pointed, larger at the base, 15-25 X 6-10 fJ-.
Type locality : New Jersey.
Habitat : Iviving trunks of species of oak and occasionally on beech. Distribution : Eastern Canada to Delaware and Missouri.
- 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
