This is quite a frequent species in many tropical countries. 

 Specimens are in the museums from Brazil, West Indies, Samoa, 

 Philippines, Australia. It occurs in Southern United States, and I 

 have collected it in Florida and Louisiana. 



The stipe usually long and slender in tropical American forms, 

 is often short and thick in Australian forms. The pad of hairs on the 

 pileus varies, in some specimens a dense pad covering the surface, in 

 others almost absent; and the same variation can be noted as to the 

 stipe hairs. 



Stereum caperatum was described by Montagne as Thelephora 

 and has been called Cladoderris. It could be called Podoscypha, 

 Lloydella, Peniophora, and no doubt other things it one were hunting 

 an excuse not to call it Steieum caperatum. It is quite close to 

 Cladoderris infundibuliformis, but is quite distinct in my opinion. 

 Many specimens of it in the museum are labeled (in error, I think) 

 Cladoderris infundibuliformis. 



Fig. 532 

 Stereum hylocrater. 



Fig. 533 

 Stereum spongiaepes. 



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STEREUM HYLOCRATER (Fig. 532). This species, known in the museu 

 1 turope from Balansa's South American collection, is only a form of Stereurr 

 caperatum with an even hymenium. The other characters, surface, sponsjv stipe 

 etc., are typical. 



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