Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

SECTION 5.
Stipitate with a mesopodial stipe. Pubescent or hirsute. Hymenium even.
STEREUM HYDROPHORUM (Lloydella) (Fig. 547). Infundibuliform,
cup-shape, rather thick and leathery. Color brown,
with pubescent surface with raised zones. Hymenium brown, velutinate
to touch. Stipe solid, round, even, brown velutinate. The
hymenial surface is velutinate with (cystidia?) projecting hyphae,
slendei, subhyaline (slight colored), sometimes branched and ir-
regular. Tissue composed of colored hyphae, and the pubescence is
colored.
Fig. 547
Stereum hydrophorum.
There are several collections at Kew,
Fig. 548
Stereum "nitis Avis."
(Reduced one-half.)
all from Brazil or British
Guiana. Schomberg first sent it as a curious fungus which he usually
found as cups full of water, hence Berkeley named it as above. It
was well-figured at the time. Later Spruce sent ample specimens
(Fig. 548) that had a curious, dendroid growth on the inner face.
Berkeley labeled it "Stereum nitis Avis Spruce," but when he published
and figured it he referred it to Stereum hydrophorum, and no
doubt correctly. There are no traces of this growth on most specimens
in the museums, and why it should occur on some is not known
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