Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ceriomyces flaviporus (Earle) Murrill, Mycologia 1 : 147. 1909
Boletus flaviporus Earle, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 297. 1905.
Pileus rather thin, convex to expanded, 6-9 cm. broad; surface smooth, viscid, not glutinous, shining, chestnut-brown : context whitish to brownish, unchanging, taste mild ; hymenium plane, tubes usually deeply depressed, but decurrent for nearly 1 cm. in anastomosing lines, bright lemon-yellow when young, becoming deep-yellow or fiavid with age and retaining this color in dried specimens, mouths small, 1 mm. broad, angular, edges thin: spores narrowly ellipsoid, smooth, yellow, 15X6^: stipe subequal or slightly ventricose, yellowish and smooth or marked with glutinous granules above, tomentose and white stained with brick-red below, solid, 6-9 cm. long, 1.8 cm. thick.
Type locality : Stanford University, California. Habitat : Among decaying oak leaves. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- 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
