Cryptoporus volvatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Polyporales
Family:
Polyporaceae
Genus:
Cryptoporus
Species:
C. volvatus
Binomial name
Cryptoporus volvatus
(Peck) Shear (1902)
Synonyms
  • Cryptoporus volvatus var. pleurostoma (Pat.) Sacc.
  • Cryptoporus volvatus var. torreyi (W.R.Gerard) Shear
  • Cryptoporus volvatus (Peck) Shear
  • Fomes volvatus (Peck) Cooke
  • Fomes volvatus var. pleurostoma (Pat.) Sacc. & Traverso
  • Fomes volvatus var. torreyi (W.R.Gerard) Sacc.
  • Polyporus volvatus Peck
  • Polyporus volvatus W.R.Gerard
  • Scindalma volvatum (Peck) Kuntze
  • Ungulina volvata (Peck) Pat.
  • Ungulina volvata var. pleurostoma Pat.

Cryptoporus volvatus is a polypore fungus that decomposes the rotting sapwood of conifers. It is an after effect of attack by the pine bark beetle.[1] The fungus was originally described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1875 as Polyporus volvatus.[2] Cornelius Lott Shear transferred it to the genus Cryptoporus in 1902.[3] The species is inedible.[4]

The fruiting body is 2–6 across, and cream or tan in color.[5] A hole is either torn by insects or a tear appears on the underside.[5] The spores are pinkish.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Davis, R.M.; Sommer, R.; Menge, J.A. (2012). Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America. University of California Press. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-520-27108-1.
  2. ↑ Peck, C.H. (1875). "Report of the Botanist (1873)". Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History. 27: 73–116 (see p. 98).
  3. ↑ Shear, C.L. (1902). "Mycological notes and new species". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 29 (7): 449–457. doi:10.2307/2478544. JSTOR 2478544.
  4. ↑ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuides. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
  5. 1 2 3 Davis, R. Michael; Sommer, Robert; Menge, John A. (2012). Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-520-95360-4. OCLC 797915861.


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