Scientific name: Trametes pubescens (Schumach.) Pilat
Derivation of name: Trametes means "one who is thin;"
pubescens means "with hairs of puberty, downy."
Synonymy: Polyporus pubescens Schum.: Fr.
Common names:
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Occurrence on wood substrate: Saprobic; solitary to
grouped, often overlapping on dead deciduous wood; June
through October.
Dimensions: Caps up to 6 cm wide and less than 1 cm thick.
Upper surface: Creamy white to yellowish buff; finely hairy to
almost glabrous; azonate or faintly zonate.
Pore surface: Whitish, aging yellowish; pores 3-5 per mm.
Edibility: Inedible.
Comments: The azonate, finely hairy, uniformly creamy or
yellowish caps are a good combination of field identification
characters.
Figure 1. Trametes pubescens in overlapping clusters
on a
deciduous tree branch.
Photo © Gary Emberger.
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Figure 2. Caps are azonate or at best weakly zonate.
Photo © Gary Emberger.
Figure 3. Pore surfaces of Trametes pubescens.
Photo © Gary Emberger.
Figure 4. Caps often have a striate appearance.
Photo © Gary Emberger.
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