Gloeophyllum striatum (Fr.) Murrill 1905

Gloeophyllum striatum (Sw.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey
Club 32 : 370. 1905.
Agariciis striaius Svf . Prodr. 148. 1788.— Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1920. 1806.
Daedalea striata Fries, Syst. Myc. 1 : 334. 1821.
Lenzites striata Fries, Epicr. Myc. 406. 1838.
Lenzites protracta Fries, Nov. Symb. 45. 1851. (Type from Mexico.)
Sesia striata Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31 : 604. 1904.
Pileus membranaceous, flexible, dry, dimidiate to flabelliform, conchate, sessile, sometimes spuriously stipitate, imbricate, laterall}^ connate and broadly attached or umbonateafHxed according to its position on the substratum, 2-6 X 5-8 X 0.3-0.5 cm. ; surface anoderm, distinctly tomentose, zonate, opaque, isabelline to umbrinous or cinereous ; margin very thin, fertile, undulate, eroded with age : context very thin, punky, scarcely a mm. thick in most specimens, umbrinous ; tubes lamelloid from the first, avellaneous to umbrinous, furrows 1-1.5 mm. broad, 2-4 mm. deep, edges thin, entire to irregularly notched and splitting with age, especially behind : spores oblong, smooth, hyaline, 6-8 X 3-4 /c^.
Type LOCALITY : Jamaica. Habitat : Dead wood of various kinds. Distribution : Tropical America.