Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

GANODERMUS.
B. Spores Rough.
FOMES ANNULARIS (Fig. 604). Pileus narrowly ungulate,
pendant, attached by a reduced base. Surface with a hard, brown,
smooth, not laccate, crust, with narrow, concentric, raised, annular
rings. Context scanty, dark brown (bay brown), the pores reaching
the crust. Pores minute, with brown tissue and white mouths.
Spores 7 x 12, obovate, truncate, distinctly rough.
This species rests on one specimen (Fig. 604) from W. T.
Saxton, Cape Town, S. Africa. In its pore color, crust, white pore
mouths, it is closely related to Fomes leucophaeus, but the shape is
unusual in the Ganodermus section of Fomes, and the distinctly
rough spores, quite remove it from any form of Fomes applanatus.
At Kew we note several specimens in the australis cover that seem
to be similar, but we have not examined their spores.
Fig. 605.
Fomes Petchii.
FOMES PETCHII (Fig. 605). Pileus compressed, ungulate,
with reduced pore layers each year, 8 cm. in diameter, 5>2 cm. thick,
attached horizontally by a reduced base. Surface dark reddish brown,
with concentric, raised zones, strongly laccate. Context scanty,
pale brown. Pores long (5 cm.), almost reaching the crust, minute,
with brown tissue darker than the context. Spores 8 x 12, obovate,
truncate, distinctly rough.
This is based on a single specimen sent from Ceylon by T. Petch
as "perennial lucidus." It is a true Fomes, and in our opinion is not
a form of Polyporus lucidus. Judging from the annual layer, the
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