| Description : | Fomitiporia jamaicensis Murrill, sp. nov.
Effused, elliptical, seceding with age, rigid, 5 mm. thick; margin thin, adnate, narrowly sterile, isabelline to fulvous, nearly glabrous, subentire: context inconspicuous, fulvous; hymenium convex, even, isabelline to umbrinous, distinctly stratified in 3 or 4 layers separated by very thin, fulvous cushions; tubes 2 mm. long each season, whitishstuffed, avellaneous-umbrinous within, mouths circular, irregular, 5-7 to a mm., edges thin, undulate: spores subglobose, smooth, hyaline, copious, 7 µm; hyphae bright-ferruginous; cystidia none.
Type collected at Castleton, Jamaica, on a dead grape-fruit tree, October 28, 1902, F. S. Earle 215.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality. | |