Thelephora 



THELEPHORACE^i 



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1804. T. esesia Pers. (from its colour ; cczsitts, bluish-grey) a b c. 



Cinereous bluish-grey. 



Effused, soft, continuous, often minutely veined or folded ; 

 marg. determinate. Hym. even or slightly papillose, slightly 

 bristly. 

 On the ground, stumps, etc., involving earth, bark, twigs, etc. Aug. 3^ in. 



LXXXII. CLADODERRIS Fr. 



(From the branched and coriaceous structure ; Gr. klados, a young 

 branch, derris, a leathern coat.) 



Coriaceous. Hymenium woody, radiate or rugulose with branched 

 ribs, or narrow greatly ramified folds, persistent, at length roughened 

 with warts. Horizontal and attached 

 by a small base behind. (Fig. 97.) 



Typical species of Cladoderris re- 

 semble Lentinus in appearance, with a 

 squarro so-hispid pileus of the colour 

 and texture of leather and a veined 

 hymenium. The species are usually 

 stemless, but sometimes there is a 

 pervious stem as in 1782. The plants 

 are not usually small although small 

 examples occur. Cladoderris dendritica 

 varies from 7 in. to f in. in diam. The 

 prevailing size is from 4 to 6 in. in diam. 

 Some species are large, infundibuliform 

 and almost stemless. 



The species chiefly grow in Aus- 

 tralia, Cuba and the Philippines. 



1805. C. minima B. & Br. (from its 

 very small size ; minimus, the 

 least) a b. White. 

 Flabelliform, springing from a 

 stem-like or obsolete base, re- 

 supinate. P. tomentose, some- 

 what zoned. Hym. radiate on 

 branched ribs. 



Birch. Dec. Diam. T 3 5 in. 

 a dwarfed 1806. 



Resembling 



Fig. 97. A, B, c, upper and lower 

 surface and section of Cladoderris 

 australica Berk., drawn as a type of 

 the genus, one-half natural size. D, 

 C. minima B. & Br., natural size. 

 E, ditto, X 2. 



LXXXIII. STEREUM Pers. 

 (From its hard substance ; Gr. stereos^ hard.) 



Hymenium inferior, coriaceous, separated from the inodermous 

 velvety-silky or fibrous-coated pileus or subiculum by an indeter- 



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