Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

This is quite a frequent species in many tropical countries.
Specimens are in the museums from Brazil, West Indies, Samoa,
Philippines, Australia. It occurs in Southern United States, and I
have collected it in Florida and Louisiana.
The stipe usually long and slender in tropical American forms,
is often short and thick in Australian forms. The pad of hairs on the
pileus varies, in some specimens a dense pad covering the surface, in
others almost absent; and the same variation can be noted as to the
stipe hairs.
Stereum caperatum was described by Montagne as Thelephora
and has been called Cladoderris. It could be called Podoscypha,
Lloydella, Peniophora, and no doubt other things it one were hunting
an excuse not to call it Steieum caperatum. It is quite close to
Cladoderris infundibuliformis, but is quite distinct in my opinion.
Many specimens of it in the museum are labeled (in error, I think)
Cladoderris infundibuliformis.
Fig. 532
Stereum hylocrater.
Fig. 533
Stereum spongiaepes.
STEREUM HYLOCRATER (Fig. 532). This species, known in the museu mseums
1 turope from Balansa's South American collection, is only a form of Stereurr um
caperatum with an even hymenium. The other characters, surface, sponsjv stipe
etc., are typical.
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