Fungi: Basidiomycota: Agaricomycetes: Polyporales: Polyporaceae: Skeletocutis nivea (Jungh.) Jean Keller

Skeletocutis nivea – hazel bracket

Synonyms: Incrustoporia nivea, Microporus niveus, Polyporus hymenicola, Polyporus niveus, Polystictus niveus, Trametes nivea.

Common name: hazel bracket.

Photos of this mushroom from East and Central Texas

White poria fungus Skeletocutis nivea on a fallen tree branch on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 18, 2022
Lone Star Hiking Trail, Montgomery County, Texas, United States

Close-up of white poria fungus Skeletocutis nivea on a fallen tree branch with glancing pore surface, pores around 10 per mm, on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 18, 2022
Lone Star Hiking Trail, Montgomery County, Texas, United States

White caps of polypore mushroom Skeletocutis nivea on a tree branch on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 18, 2022
Lone Star Hiking Trail, Montgomery County, Texas, United States

Underside of white caps of polypore mushroom Skeletocutis nivea on a tree branch on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 18, 2022
Lone Star Hiking Trail, Montgomery County, Texas, United States

Spores of white poria fungus Skeletocutis nivea on a fallen tree branch collected a day before on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 19, 2022
Spore size 2.9 - 3.1 × 0.5 - 0.6 µm, length to width ratio Q = 4.9 - 6.3.

Comments

• Data for this species were obtained from the dataset https://www.gbif.org.

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