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Most of these specimens are flabelliform. In fact, Cladoderris.
infundibuliform is very badly named, as the infundibuliform shape
is unusual.
CLADODERRIS FUNALIS (Fig. 530, p. 9). Pileus thin,
tomentose, dissected into narrow segments. Hymenium swollen,
vein-like.
As our figure gives a better idea of the plant than words can, it
is useless to further describe it. It is so different from all other
species that it is a question if Hennings was correct in referring it to
Cladoderris. I am inclined to think it should be so classed. The
hymenium is unilateral and swollen, as in Cladoderris, and branchesin
the same manner. I should not be surprised, however, if it proved
to have other names in other genera, such as Lachnocladium. Cladoderris
funalis is known to me only from a single collection at Berlin,
collected by Winkler in Kamerun.
SYNONYMS, ERRORS AND REJECTED SPECIES.
There are about thirty (so-called) species
there are but five known that have really distinctive characters. All species based
only on shape or stipe attachment have no value, as these characters vary to all
degrees in the same collection. The older mycologists with scanty material were
disposed to name each collection on unimportant characters. It seems to me the
main work that has been done with the genus Cladoderris in the past is to attempt
to show the imaginary differences between imaginary species. In the last sixty
of Cladoderris, but I am convinced
years I think there has been but one really new species of Cladoderris found (viz.,.
funalis), and it is a question if this is a good Cladoderris.
Australica, Australia, Cooke. The type ( = spongiosa) appears to be from
Gippsland, Australia, and was determined by Berkeley as "Thelephora dendritica
Fr. (non) ". It is the only specimen in the cover from Australia, hence I judge it
is the "type," though there is no evidence that Berkeley named it Cladoderri*
Australica, even in mss., as claimed. Cooke referred here numerous specimens from
South Africa (infundibuliformis), which have little resemblance to the Australian
plant, and it is evident to me that Cooke's description in the Australian Handbook
was mostly drawn from the South African plants.
Australis, Australia,
not a Cladoderris.
Kalchbrenner. 'I here is a little cotype at Kew. It is.
Blumei, Java, Leveille. Type is in box 25 at Leiden. It is a synonym for
Cladoderris infundibuliformis, sessile, flabelliform specimens. (Cf. Fig. 528.)
Brasiliensis, Brazil, Fries (mss.) = dendritica type at Kew.
caespitosa, Brazil, Cooke (as Beccariella), =Polyporus fimbriatus, with
undeveloped pores. Compare Stipitate Polyporoids, page 152, Fig. 453.
Candolliana, Brazil, Leveille, = dendritica exactly. Specimen at Paris.
caperatum, Brazil, Montagne. (Cladoderris for Patouillard). The genus-
Cladoderris merges into Stereum through all degrees, and no arbitrary line can be
drawn between the genera. To be included in Cladoderris, I would require a speciesto
have to a degree all three of the essential characters of Cladoderris, viz., costate,
papillate hymenium and tomentose layer of pileus. Stereum caperatum is quite
close to Cladoderris infundibuliformis, but never has papillae and is always mesopodial.
Besides, there exists a connecting form which has all other characters of
caperatum but an even, smooth hymenium, hence is a true Stereum. For this reason
I believe caperatum is best classed as a Stereum, with a leaning towards Cladoderris.
cartilaginea Singapore, Massee. It has nothing in common with the genus.
Cladoderris. I did not find any hymenium, but I believe it to be a gelatinous plant,
probably a Tremellaceae. It is a unique species of something, but has no relation
to Cladoderris.
crassa, Philippines, Klotzsch (as Actinostroma) = dendritica. Exactly the same
plant. Type at Berlin.
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