Global InformationCryptoporus volvatus information
| Cryptoporus volvatus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Polyporaceae |
| Genus: | Cryptoporus |
| Species: | C. volvatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Cryptoporus volvatus (Peck) Shear (1902)
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Cryptoporus volvatus Mycological characteristics | |
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 | Pores on hymenium |
 | No distinct cap |
 | Hymenium attachment is irregular or not applicable |
| Lacks a stipe |
 | Spore print is pink |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic or parasitic |
 | Edibility is too hard to eat |
Cryptoporus volvatus, commonly known as the veiled polypore or cryptic globe fungus,[1] is a polypore fungus that decomposes the rotting sapwood of conifers. It is an after effect of attack by the pine bark beetle.[2] The fungus was originally described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1875 as Polyporus volvatus.[3] Cornelius Lott Shear transferred it to the genus Cryptoporus in 1902.[4] The species is inedible.[5]
The fruiting body is 2–6 across, and cream or tan in color.[6] A hole is either torn by insects or a tear appears on the underside.[6] The spores are pinkish.[6]
- ^ Arora, David (1986). Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi (Second ed.). Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-0-89815-169-5.
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Shear 1902was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuides. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
- ^ a b c Davis, R. Michael; Sommer, Robert; Menge, John A. (2012). Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-520-95360-4. OCLC 797915861.