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y a small, tomentose pad. As to color and habits, it is quite the
same as Stereum surinamense, but very rarely has a disposition to
take infundibuliform shapes. I think it is entirely distinct but only
in shape. The types (three specimens) aie in box 102 at Leiden. At
Paris are two specimens under the same label by Leveille. One of
them is the same as the type at Leiden, the other is Stereum Mellisii,
a very different plant. This confusion by Leveille has led to recent
errors in the naming of Philippine plants.
SPECIMENS. A fine collection from Dr. Zenker, Congo, Africa. This same plant from Dr.
Zenker was sent to Hennings, who referred it to "Thelephora cfr. aurantiaca Berk." and was distributed
by Dr. Zenker under this name, and found in several museums. This same collection is
said to be the basis of "Thelephora Amigenatska Henn." which is not now represented at Berlin in
the cover.
STEREUM MALABARENSE. A probable form of the preceding plant, but
very thin, and with incised, fimbriate margin, was received in abundance by Cooke
from Malabar and referred to Stereum elegans, to which it hardly has an analogy.
This Malabar collection seems to have grown in the earth.
STEREUM FLABELLATUM. This is for me a form of Stereum affine, having
all the characters of the type form, but often lobed and the surface strongly
slriate. It is only known from the collection of Duss in Guadalupe. Cotype specimens
are found in the museum at Berlin. According to the collector's notes it is
pale when fresh, but the dried specimens are dark reddish-bay color.
STEREUM OBLIQUUM (Fig. 562). Pileus reddish-brown (now), narrowly
lanceolate, acute, with a slender, lateral stem. Smooth, striate.
This was based on Zollinger's exsiccatae No. 983, and the set is found in several
museums. Our figures are from those in Kew. In the British Museum the specimens
of the same number are not lateral, but have an oblique attachment, and tend to
infundibuliform. There is at Kew a similar collection from Australia, but otherwise
only known from the original Zollinger collections. The Zollinger distribution at
Kew, British Museum, Leiden, and Montagne's herbarium (type) are all the same,
but I think the one at Berlin is different. Excepting as to its long stalk and very
narrow form, Stereum obliquum has all the characters of Stereum affine and for
me is only a form.
SYNONYMS.
Guepinia (sic) flabellata, Malay, Cooke = Stereum glabrum.
Stereum Huberianum, Brazil, Hennings, distributed Ule 42 is Stereum fissum, entire specimens.
Stereum pallens, Brazil, Karsten. There is a single little cotype specimen at Paris. I take it
to be the same as Stereum cyphelloides.
Stereum partitum, Ceylon, Berkeley = Stereum glabrum.
Stereum pusiplum, Cuba, Berkeley. A very small species known only from one collection from
Cuba, and from this material it is not possible to say that it differs from Stereum cyphelloides.
Stereum spathulatum (bis), Brazil, Berkeley = Stereum glabrescens.
Thelephora Amigenatska, Africa, Hennings. There is no type in the cover at Berlin now.
Zenker's collection (1996) found in several museums as " Thelephora cfr. aurantiaca Berk." is said to
be same, as it no doubt is from the description. It is Stereum affine. As Berkeley never named any
specimen "Thelephora aurantiaca," it would be quite difficult to make the comparison as requested
on the label.
Thelephora Uleana, Brazil, Hennings,
The type has an endorsement on it that it is a Cyphella, but I can not see on what grounds.
I judge from my notes is same as Stereum quisquiliare.
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