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SPORES COLORED. SETAE NONE.
FOMES PECTINATUS (Fig. 595). Pileus thin, rigid, applanate,
2-4 mm. thick, usually irregular, with the pore layers developing
in imperfect layers. Surface with soft, tomentose, concentric
ridges. Context cinnamon brown, bright color in fresh specimens.
Pores minute, with mouths concolorous. Setae, none. Spores small,
3>2-4, colored.
Fig. 595.
Fomes pectinatus.
A frequent plant throughout the tropics. There was more truth
in Fries' reference than he supposed when he referred Quelet's figure
of Fomes ribis to Fomes pectinatus, for Fomes pectinatus is in reality
the tropical form of Fomes ribis. It is thinner and more irregular,
but in all its essential characters is the same. Where the European
compilers are in error is when they represent that both grow there.
In the American tropics the plant otherwise the same, is of more
regular growth than in the East. This was called Fomes subpectinatus
by Murrill, and recently distributed by Rick as Fomes capucinus.
ILLUSTRATIONS. None published. Quelet, Vosges, t. 17, fig. 5, (cited in Saccardo) is a
mere daub and represents nothing. It was called Fomes conchatus by Quelet; was referred to Fomes
pectinatus by Fries, which was the source of the Fomes pectinatus delusion in European mycology.
It was based on Fomes ribis.
SPECIMENS. Madagascar, Perner de la Bathie (five collections); Brazil, Rev. Rick (four
collections) ; Ceylon, T. Fetch.
Compare Bonianus, crocitinctus, Hasskarlii, Langloisii, lilliputianus, subpectinatus, verruculosus,
versatilis.
FOMES PULLUS. Pileus small, thin, rigid, applanate, usually about 1 cm.
in greatest diameter. Attached by a reduced base. Surface tomentose, with thin,
narrow, tomentose ridges. Context and other characters as in Fomes pectinatus.
This might be held as a small, regular form of Fomes pectinatus, with which it
agrees, excepting its small size, regular form, and separate manner of growth. It
was originally from Java, collected by Zollinger and named by Montagne. Cotype
collections (Zoll. No. 1000) are in most museums.
SPECIMENS. Madagascar, Perrier de la Bathie.
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