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CLADODERRIS SCRUPULOSA. A specimen at Kew collected by Cantley
in Mauritius, has the characters of Cladoderris spongiosa, excepting the pileus is
strongly uneven. I think it is only a form.
Fig. 527.
Cladoderris infundibuliformis.
Type specimen.
CLADODERRIS INFUNDIBULIFORMIS (Figs. 527, 528 r
and 529, pp. 8 and 9). Pileus thin, reddish brown, slightly tomentose,
uneven, with narrow ridge-like folds. Shape varying from infundibuliform,
with mesopodial, short stem to flabellate, orbicular, with
short, lateral stem. Hymenium rather narrow folds, with warts.
This species, originally from Philippines, occurs also in Africa.
All the preceding species might be broadly considered as forms of the
same species, but this is widely different, in having a dark color, thin,
ridged pileus, slight tomentum. Usually the tomentum is but slightly
developed, or almost none, but is a varying character, as shown in
specimens at Kew of the same collection. While it has typically the
hymenium of a Cladoderris, in general character it is closer to Stereum
caperatum than to other species of Cladoderris. At Kew there
are abundant specimens (Fig. 528, p. 9), from J. M. Wood, South
Africa (which Cooke referred to Cladoderris australica) that are
more smooth than the type of infundibuliformis.
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