Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

FAVOLUS DERMOPORUS (Fig. 759) FROM REV. C. TOR-
REND, BRAZIL. Pileus white, smooth, faintly tessellate. Stipe
short, lateral, pubescent. Pores large, favoloid, deep. Cyst. none.
Spores 4x8, hyaline, transparent, with two or three guttae.
Fig. 759.
Favolus dermoporus.
Favolus dermoporus was among the first foreign polyporoids
named by Persoon (as Polyporus). It has been omitted by Saccardo.
The type is at Paris in rather poor condition. It is quite
similar to the more common Favolus brasiliensis, but distinguished
by its very much larger, deeper pores, some of them ^4 cm. deep.
POLYSTICTUS PELLUCIDUS (Fig. 760), FROM J. l"M-
EMURA, JAPAN. Pileus thin, cartilaginous, drying rigid and contracted.
Surface pubescent, zoned. Context white. Pores large,
angular, shallow, with prolonged walls. Hymenium pubescent with
Fig. 760.
Polyscictus pellucidus.
hyaline, smooth cystidia (?) usually simple, sometimes branched,
and rarely crested.
This species was heretofore known to me only from the type at
Leiden (cfr. Letter 37). The large pores are pale, with a tinge of
purple or rose when young. I think it is badly named, for it is not
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