🇬🇧 elegant polypore - 🇩🇪 Löwengelber Porling - 🇪🇪 Kännu-soomustorik - 🇷🇺 Цериопорус изменчивый 4/7/24—7/25/26
🆔 Cerioporus varius (Pers.) Zmitr. & Kovalenko
ℹ️ Hymenium: Pores angular, whitish to pale grey when young, becoming dingy brownish with age; sometimes bruising faintly brown; approximately 3–5 pores per mm
ℹ️ Cap: Plane-convex to flat, later centrally depressed with an uplifted margin; round to kidney-shaped; dry, smooth or finely radially fibrillose; dull yellow to pale tan, often radially streaked
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Decurrent
ℹ️ Stipe: Central, eccentric or lateral, short and tough; pale near apex, becoming dark brown to black and finely velvety from the base upward
⚪ Spore print white
🪵🍂 Saprobic, causing white rot on decaying hardwood sticks, fallen branches and small barkless logs; solitary or scattered; late spring to autumn
🪵 Inedible, too tough, leathery and woody
📏 Fruit body medium; stipe ~1–3 cm long and ~0.2–0.7 cm thick
📐 Cap ∅ ~2–7 cm
🔪 Flesh whitish to dull yellowish, thin, very tough
🧪 KOH brownish-orange on cap surface and flesh
👃 Fragrant
👅 Indistinct
🔬 Spores cylindrical, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~6–10 × 2–3 µm; basidia 4-sterigmate; true cystidia absent, lageniform cystidioles present; hyphal system dimitic with clamped generative hyphae and thick-walled skeletal hyphae
🔤 Small pale stemmed polypore on dead hardwood, with radially streaked tan cap, decurrent whitish pores, stipe that progressively blackens upward from the base
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