First person to use this name on MO: Alan Rockefeller
Editors: Erlon Bailey, Joseph D. Cohen, Chaelthomas
Observations of:
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Rank: Species
Status: Accepted
Name: Daedalea quercina
Author: (L.) Pers.
Citation: Synopsis methodica fungorum: 500 (1801)
Deprecated Synonyms: Daedaleopsis quercina
Misspellings: Daedalia quercina
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Daedalea
Pileus corky, rigid, dimidiate, sessile, imbricate, applanate, convex below, triangular in section, 6-12 X ~o X 2-4 em.; surface isabelline-avellaneous to cinereous or smoky-black with age, slightly sulcate, zonate at times, tuberculose to colliculose in the older portions; margin usually thin, pallid, glabrous; con- text isabelline, soft-corky, homogeneous, 5-7 mm. thick; tubes labyrinthiform, becoming nearly lamellate with age in some specimens, 1-2 em. long, I-Z mm. broad, chalk-white or dis- colored within, edges obtuse, entire, ochraceous to avellaneous.
Reported by Harkness as occurring on oak in California.