Most of these specimens are flabelliform. In fact, Cladoderris. 

 infundibuliform is very badly named, as the infundibuliform shape 

 is unusual. 



CLADODERRIS FUNALIS (Fig. 530, p. 9). Pileus thin, 

 tomentose, dissected into narrow segments. Hymenium swollen, 

 vein-like. 



As our figure gives a better idea of the plant than words can, it 

 is useless to further describe it. It is so different from all other 

 species that it is a question if Hennings was correct in referring it to 

 Cladoderris. I am inclined to think it should be so classed. The 

 hymenium is unilateral and swollen, as in Cladoderris, and branches- 

 in the same manner. I should not be surprised, however, if it proved 

 to have other names in other genera, such as Lachnocladium. Clado- 

 derris funalis is known to me only from a single collection at Berlin, 

 collected by Winkler in Kamerun. 



SYNONYMS, ERRORS AND REJECTED SPECIES. 



There are about thirty (so-called) species of Cladoderris, but I am convinced 

 there are but five known that have really distinctive characters. All species based 

 only on shape or stipe attachment have no value, as these characters vary to all 

 degrees in the same collection. The older mycologists with scanty material were 

 disposed to name each collection on unimportant characters. It seems to me the 

 main work that has been done with the genus Cladoderris in the past is to attempt 

 to show the imaginary differences between imaginary species. In the last sixty 

 years I think there has been but one really new species of Cladoderris found (viz.,. 

 funalis), and it is a question if this is a good Cladoderris. 



Australica, Australia, Cooke. The type ( = spongiosa) appears to be from 

 Gippsland, Australia, and was determined by Berkeley as "Thelephora dendritica 

 Fr. (non) ". It is the only specimen in the cover from Australia, hence I judge it 

 is the "type," though there is no evidence that Berkeley named it Cladoderri* 

 Australica, even in mss., as claimed. Cooke referred here numerous specimens from 

 South Africa (infundibuliformis), which have little resemblance to the Australian 

 plant, and it is evident to me that Cooke's description in the Australian Handbook 

 was mostly drawn from the South African plants. 



Australis, Australia, Kalchbrenner. 'I here is a little cotype at Kew. It is. 

 not a Cladoderris. 



Blumei, Java, Leveille. Type is in box 25 at Leiden. It is a synonym for 

 Cladoderris infundibuliformis, sessile, flabelliform specimens. (Cf. Fig. 528.) 



Brasiliensis, Brazil, Fries (mss.) = dendritica type at Kew. 



caespitosa, Brazil, Cooke (as Beccariella), =Polyporus fimbriatus, with 

 undeveloped pores. Compare Stipitate Polyporoids, page 152, Fig. 453. 



Candolliana, Brazil, Leveille, = dendritica exactly. Specimen at Paris. 



caperatum, Brazil, Montagne. (Cladoderris for Patouillard). The genus- 

 Cladoderris merges into Stereum through all degrees, and no arbitrary line can be 

 drawn between the genera. To be included in Cladoderris, I would require a species- 

 to have to a degree all three of the essential characters of Cladoderris, viz., costate, 

 papillate hymenium and tomentose layer of pileus. Stereum caperatum is quite 

 close to Cladoderris infundibuliformis, but never has papillae and is always meso- 

 podial. Besides, there exists a connecting form which has all other characters of 

 caperatum but an even, smooth hymenium, hence is a true Stereum. For this reason 

 I believe caperatum is best classed as a Stereum, with a leaning towards Cladoderris. 



cartilaginea Singapore, Massee. It has nothing in common with the genus. 

 Cladoderris. I did not find any hymenium, but I believe it to be a gelatinous plant, 

 probably a Tremellaceae. It is a unique species of something, but has no relation 

 to Cladoderris. 



crassa, Philippines, Klotzsch (as Actinostroma) = dendritica. Exactly the same 

 plant. Type at Berlin. 



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