Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

SPORES COLORED.
POLYPORLS RICKII. Recently named from Brazil, is an abnormal Ptychogaster form of
It has abundant, colored, conidial spores, all sizes
some species similar to : Polyporus glomeratus.
and shapes. Ptychogaster Cubensis is suggested as being the same thing. I hardly feel that the subject
is much cleared up by the publication of such species.
Fig. 691,
Polyporus nilgheriensis.
POLYPORUS NILGHERIENSIS (Fig. 691). Pileus thin,
dimidiate, dark argus brown. Surface with dark brown, subzonate
velumen. Context thin, concolorous. Pores minute, round, 2-3 -mm.
long, with concolorous tissue and dark mouths. Setae, none. Spores
globose, 4 mic., pale colored.
Polyporus nilgheriensis has been referred to as a Fomes. While
the pores have a layer effect, we believe this is due to a union of confluent
pilei and that the plant is better classed as a lignescent Polyporus.
It is a very distinct species only known from a few collections
from India, and named originally by Montagne. It has been most
badly confused, and in the cover before me are 29 specimens so named,
only one, the cotype, having any resemblance or relation whatever
to it. There was a cotype in Hooker's herbarium, which Berkeley for
some reason evidently thought was wrong, for he marked it "non,"
and so determined another species from India in Hooker's herbarium.
He passed the mistake on to Fries, who enlarged on it by so referring
Polystictus pergamenus from Mexico. Then Patouillard fell into the
trap, but Murrill escaped, by what fortunate chance we are unable
to surmise. Polyporus nilgheriensis is given in Saccardo as growing
in India, Carolina, United States, British America, Cuba, and Central
America, all wrong excepting the first.
Compare Garckeanus.
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