Stereaceae
Stereum

Stereum hirsutum (Willd.) Pers.

First published in Observ. mycol., (Lipsiae) 2: 90 (1800)
This species is accepted
This species is found in Europe, Philippines, Africa, South America, North America, Australasia and Asia-Temperate. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders and as a poison for unspecified microbes.

Descriptions

Morphology
Imbricate. Gregarious. Pileus: up to 7 cm broad, semicircular, dimidiate or flabelliform to irregular, often umbonate; membranous-elastic when fresh and coriaceous when dry, broadly attached; surface hirsute to hispid, yellow-ochraceous or grayish-white, in older specimens often covered by green algae or with a reddish-brown cutis; margin wavy, sometimes radiately plicate, thinning outwards, usually whitish-cream to gray. Context: whitish-cream. Hymenophore: smooth to slightly tuberculate, often with radial concentric ridges; light-yellow to orange-grayish. Usually sessile. Odor-Taste: not distinctive. Spore print: white. Spores: ellipsoid-cylindrical, smooth, often with internal oil-drops, amyloid.
Habit
Imbricate, gregarious.
Distribution
Global distribution. Altitude: 1700 – 2850 m a.s.l. Colombian departments: Antioquia,Bogotá D.C., Boyacá, Caquetá, Cauca, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Valle del Cauca.
Ecology
Saprotroph. - Wood saprotroph. Habitat/ecology: on bark and wood of trunks, twigs, or stumps of a wide range of dead or living deciduous trees; in disturbed tropical cloud forest; in mixed oak-dominated forest.
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Uses

Use Medicines Unspecified Medicinal Disorders
Part used: Basidiome. In Colombia there are no uses reported in this category. Used as medicine in China, inhibiting the formation of tumors.
Use Poisons Unspecified Microbe Poison
In Colombia there are no uses reported in this category. In China is known as antiobiotic against certain bacteria.
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Sources

  • Catalogue of Fungi of Colombia

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