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SPORES HYALINE.
Marcucci distributed this (No. 70) years ago as "Polyporus fulvus Scop " it
being one of six different plants that have been referred to this name. It came from
Southern Italy or one of the Mediterranean islands, and is the only collection known
It is close to Polyporus gilvus, has same context color, pores, setae, and spores but
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Plants of the gilvuss alli alliance are strangely rare in Europe, and this is
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rican flora where Polyporus gilvus is common.
Fig. 684.
Polyporus licnoides.
POLYPORUS LICNOIDES (Fig. 684). This is the most pronounced, tropical
form. It is thin (type 2 mm.), more flaccid, and tends toward Polystictus. In the
most highly specialized "type" form there are smooth, reddish zones on the pileus,
but they are present and absent on the same collection. Polyporus licnoides in its
"type" forms is more common in tropical America, but specimens so referred are
collected in the East.
SPECIMENS. Brazil, Rev. Rick, Rev. F. Theissen, Gustavo Peckolt; Florida, C. G. Lloyd;
Ceylon, T. Fetch; India, G. H. Cave; Madagascar, Henri Perrier de la Bathie; Central America,
Chas. L. Smith; Congo Beige, Hyac Vanderyst.
Compare Balansae, callimorphus, connexus, Ramosii, subtropicalis, also Fomes bambusinus.
POLYPORUS AURICULIFORMIS. This is a rare form of Polyporus licnoides,
with minutely pubescent or velutinate surface. It was originally from Java,
and is compiled in Saccardo as "Poria." The single "type" at Leiden is of doubtful
authenticity, but it surely is not "resupinate." We have a specimen from Rev. H.
Vanderyst, Congo Beige.
POLYPORUS GILVOIDES (Fig. 685). Pileus very thin, with flpccose, pubescent
surface. Substance soft, a Polystictus excepting as to its affinities. Color,
context, pores, setae, spores as in Polyporus gilvus. This is a Brazilian form, so named
by Hennings, and he gave it a good name, which is the reason we adopt it. Patouillard
named the same thing, a year or two earlier, Polyporus pseudoradiatus, from specimens
that were old. We see no occasion to call it "false radiatus," for it has no resemblance
and precious little analogy to Polyporus radiatus. Recently an "asetulosc
form" has been announced from the Philippines. We have our doubts of the occurrence
of "asctulose forms" of any of the Polyporus gilvus group.
Compare pseudoradiatus.
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