Polyporus exiguus Colenso 1885 [1884]
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Polyporus exiguus Colenso 1885 [1884]
Specimens forwarded to Kew by W.Colenso were named by M.C.Cooke. The name was published by Colenso as Polyporus exiguis sp. nov., but no description was appended. Subsequently Cooke formally described it as Polystictus exiguis Cke.
Specific characters are the small size, laterally attached flabelliform pilei, white (when fresh) surface, irregular moderately sized pores, and small elliptical spores. Pilei of a few specimens resemble those of P. catervatus in that they are peziza-like, caespitose and attached by a prolongation of the vertex. Such may be separated by the larger more deeply coloured pores, entire dissepiments and elliptical spores.
Though superficially not apparent, the species belongs to the same section as P. anthracophilus, possessing a monomitic hyphal system, and similar radiately arranged parallel hyphae.
TYPE LOCALITY: Norswood, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.