Polyporus leucocreas Cooke 1879

Details

Name scientific

Polyporus leucocreas Cooke, Grevillea 8 55 (1879)

Preferred name

Laetiporus portentosus (Berk.) Rajchenb. 1995

Taxonomy reference

Buchanan, P.K.; Ryvarden, L. 2000: An annotated checklist of polypore and polypore-like fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 38(2): 265-323.

Nomenclature

Authors

Cooke

Original authors

Cooke

Publication place

Cooke, M.C. 1879: New Zealand fungi. Grevillea 8(46): 54-68.

Year published

1879

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Polyporus leucocreas Cooke 1879

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Polyporus leucocreas

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Polyporales

Family

Polyporaceae

Genus

Polyporus

Species

leucocreas

Descriptions

Cooke, M.C. 1879: New Zealand fungi. Grevillea 8(46): 54-68.

Polyporus leucocreas Cooke 1879

Habitat

On charred wood.

Latin

Pileo e carnoso suberoso, ungulato, glabro, albido, demum pallido, cute rivuloso-fatiscente, intus niveo, spongioso, tenae.i; hymenio convexo, rimoso ; poris angulatis, minimis, brevibus, albis. (vix P. betulinus.)

Notes

Substance snowy-white, not at all fragile as in P. officinalis, but firm and tough ; pileus 6 inches across, 4 inches high.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Polyporus leucocreas Cooke 1879

Polyporus leucocreas Cooke (1879)

Buchanan, P.K.; Ryvarden, L. (2000)

Laetiporus portentosus (Berk.) Rajchenb. 1995

Polyporus leucocreas Cooke 1879

Polyporus leucocreas Cooke (1879)

Cooke, M.C. (1879)

Global name resources

Index Fungorum - Polyporus leucocreas

MycoBank - Polyporus leucocreas Cooke

Metadata

Record id

1cb1b720-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Fungi

Date last updated

15 December 2003

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