Grifola colensoi

,<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">The fruit-body consists of a cap with pores on the underside. There is no stem, the caps are somewhat fan-shaped and appear in large, overlapping groups, all radiating from a common base. The caps may be up to 15 centimetres long, up to about a half centimetre thick and are of a somewhat rubbery texture. The upper surface is grey-brown to dark grey and the underside is whitish. The pores on the underside are easy to see with the naked eye. They may be up to a millimetre wide and may be rounded to slightly elongated radially.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">Spore print: white.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">The fruit-bodies are found on dead wood and at the bases of live trees. The species has been reported from Australia and New Zealand.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">There seems to be a faint possibility that more than one species hides under this name (see the technical note if you&rsquo;re interested), but for now it seems simplest to ignore that.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">Look-alikes</span></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;">When dark grey, there should be no mistaking it - provided you look for pores on the underside! There are other fungi with clusters of grey caps - but with gills on the underside of the cap. If you have something more brownish, look for the large pores and the caps radiating from a common base. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">Technical note</span></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;">Cunningham reported clamped generative hyphae; Ryvarden reported the type to have unclamped generative hyphae; Buchanan &amp; Ryvarden said that all collections at the PDD herbarium had clamps &ndash; and that the type was now lost. So, perhaps there is &lsquo;clampless colensoi&rsquo; but, if so, presumably it is uncommon. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">References:</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;">Buchanan, P.K. &amp; Ryvarden, L. (2000). An annotated checklist of polypore and polypore-like fungi recorded from New Zealand, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Zealand Journal of Botany</em></span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">38</span></strong><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">,265-323.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;">Cunningham, G.H. (1965), <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Polyporaceae of New Zealand</em></span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">, DSIR, Wellington.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000000;">Ryvarden, L. (1977b), Type studies in the Polyporaceae 10. Species described by M.J. Berkeley, either alone or with other authors, from 1844 to 1855, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Norwegian Journal of Botany</em></span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">24</span></strong><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;">, 213-230.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Grifola colensoi is listed in the following regions:

Canberra & Southern Tablelands

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