Fomitopsis pinicola

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iFomitopsis pinicola

Conservation status

Secure

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Homobasidiomycetes
Subclass:	Porinae
Order:	Poriales
Family:	Poriceae
Genus:	Fomitopsis
Species:	F. pinicola

Binomial name

Fomitopsis pinicola
(Sw.:Fr.) P.Karst.

Fomitopsis pinicola mycological characteristics:	?
pores on hymenium
no distinct cap
hymenium is decurrent
lacks a stipe
spore print is yellow
ecology is saprophytic
edibility: inedible

Fomitopsis pinicola, in English sometimes known as Red Banded Polypore, is a polypore mushroom of the genus Fomitopsis. The species is common throughout the temperate Northern hemisphere.

[edit] Characteristics

Cap hoof-shaped or triangular, hard and tough texture, up to 30-40 x 25 x 10 cm. Surface is more or less smooth, at first orange-yellow with a white margin, later dark reddish to brown and then frequently with orange margin. Pore surface pale yellow to leather-brown, 3-4 pores per mm. Grows on live and dead coniferous or (less common) deciduous trees.

Underside showing the typical round pores.

Younger specimens like these often show more orange colours.

[edit] References

"Danske storsvampe. Basidiesvampe" [a key to Danish basidiomycetes] J.H. Petersen and J. Vesterholt eds. Gyldendal. Viborg, Denmark, 1990. ISBN 87-01-09932-9
Entry of Fomitopsis pinicola at Fungal Databases, Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory Nomenclature Database, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.