Schizopora paradoxa
Persoonia 5(1): 76. 1967
Common Name: none
Synonym: Xylodon paradoxus (Schrad.) Chevall.
For description see Gilbertson & Ryvarden & 'California Mushrooms'.
On wood of hardwoods; fruiting from fall through winter, widely distributed.
Unknown.
Schizopora paradoxa can be distinguished by resupinate, cream-colored fruitbodies with irregular, split, or toothed pores. Microscopically, dimitic tissue and capitate crystal incrusted hyphal tip cells and cystidia are diagnostic. It may represent a complex of species in North America and is in need of study. Junghuhnia zonata forms a white pore surface, grows on conifers, and has thick-walled, crystal-incrusted cystidia and narrower, sausage-shaped spores.
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