Hydnophlebia
chrysorhizon
Hydnophlebia chrysorhizon
[Phanerochaete chrysorhiza
]
- Name
- Spreading yellow tooth.
- Etymology
- Epithet = golden root. Genus = toothed phlebia.
- Fruitbody
- Thin effused crust, with teeth up to 1.5 mm long. Loosely attached to wood or wood debris. Color bright orange to reddish orange; teeth yellow to orange. Margin of crust noticeably fimbriate (with radiating hyphae) and with orange cords. Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae thin to thick-walled, usually encrusted with crystals; most septa lacking clamps. Spores narrowly ellipsoid to cylindrical, 4–6 × 2–3 μm, smooth, thin-walled, inamyloid.
- Similar species
- In the Midwest there are other toothed crusts but few have fimbriate (feathered) margins and cords. Etheirodon fimbriatum is pale pinkish tan, reddish-gray or violaceous. Kavinia himantia is ochre (tan) to brown with white margins and white cords. Found in the south, Hydnophlebia omnivora is yellow or cream (including spines) with a white to cream and fimbriate margin, and poorly developed cords.
- Ecology
- Saprobe causing a white rot. Reported from hardwoods, conifers, and other dead plants. Found on underside of logs and branches.
- Phenology
- Spring to fall.
- Biogeography
- North America (eastern USA and southeast Canada, rare southwest, likely northern Mexico), South America, Africa, Japan.
- Chicago Region status
- Uncommon in the region, more frequent in southern Cook County and Indiana Dunes.
- Specimens examined
- About 30 collections plus 30 observations for Chicago region (1994 - 2018). Four historic collections by Harper, Moffatt, and Graham.
Taxon Details and Links
- Nomenclature
-
- Hydnophlebia chrysorhizon , Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised 16: 384 (1967)
- ≡ Basionym: Hydnum chrysorhizon , Manual Bot., ed. 3: 309 (1822)
- ≡ Phanerochaete chrysorhizon , Southwestern Naturalist 17: 417 (1973)
- Type
- Lectotype - New York, USA.
- Taxonomy
- This species was also placed in Oxydontia (1958), Mycoacia (1966), and Grandiniella (1977); for other synonyms see taxon links below.
Ryvarden et al. (2005) state:
It should be noted that the epithet chrysorhizon is a noun and indeclinable.
[Should remain chrysorhizon.] - Description links
- Gary Emberger
- Related links
- Ryvarden, L., K. Hjortstam, T. Iturriaga. 2005. Studies in corticioid fungi from Venezuela II (Basidiomycotina, Aphyllophorales). Synopsis Fungorum 20: 42–78.
- Telleria, M. T., M. Dueñas, M. P. Martín. 2017. Three new species of Hydnophlebia (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from the Macaronesian Islands MycoKeys 27: 39–64. DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.27.14866
- Records online
- iNaturalist
- Mushroom Observer
- MyCoPortal, H. chrysorhiza
- Taxon links
- 332100 Hydnophlebia chrysorhiza
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum and Species Fungorum
- The spelling Hydnophlebia chrysorhizon does not have a taxon number.