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Purplepore Bracket (Trichaptum abietinum)

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Trichaptum abietinum
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T. abietinum
Binomial name
Trichaptum abietinum
Synonyms
  • Boletus abietinus Dicks. (1793)
Trichaptum abietinum
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Pores on hymenium
Cap is flat
Hymenium attachment is not applicable
Lacks a stipe
Spore print is white
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is inedible

Trichaptum abietinum is a species of poroid fungus in the order Hymenochaetales. It is saprophytic, growing from dead conifer wood.

The white-gray cap is 1–4 cm wide and usually no more than 0.5 cm thick, shelved and fanlike, with brownish and leathery flesh.[2] The spores are white, cylindrical, and smooth.[2]

The species is inedible.[2]

Similar species include Trichaptum biforme, Bjerkandera adusta, and Trametes versicolor.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Ryvarden, L. (1972). "A critical checklist of the Polyporaceae in tropical East Africa". Norwegian Journal of Botany. 19: 229–238.
  2. ^ a b c d Davis, R. Michael; Sommer, Robert; Menge, John A. (2012). Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 355–356. ISBN 978-0-520-95360-4. OCLC 797915861.
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