Cryptoporus volvatus
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Cryptoporus volvatus is a polypore fungus that decomposes the rotting sapwood of conifers. It is an after effect of attack by the pine bark beetle.[1] The fungus was originally described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1875 as Polyporus volvatus.[2] Cornelius Lott Shear transferred it to the genus Cryptoporus in 1902.[3]
References
- ^ Davis, R.M.; Sommer, R.; Menge, J.A. (2012). Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America. University of California Press. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-520-27108-1.
- ^ Peck, C.H. (1875). "Report of the Botanist (1873)". Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History. 27: 73–116 (see p. 98).
- ^ Shear, C.L. (1902). "Mycological notes and new species". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 29: 449–457.