Ceriporia excelsa

Ceriporia excelsa is a species of crust fungus in the family Irpicaceae. It is found in Europe and North America, where it typically grows on dead hardwood.^[3] It has also been recorded from China.^[4]

Ceriporia excelsa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Irpicaceae
Genus:	Ceriporia
Species:	C. excelsa
Binomial name
Ceriporia excelsa S.Lundell ex Parmasto (1959)
Synonyms
Poria excelsa S.Lundell (1946)[1] Gloeoporus excelsus S.Lundell ex Zmitr. & Spirin (2006)[2]

Description

The crust-like fruit bodies of this species are soft and readily separable from the substrate. The colour of the margin ranges from white to pinkish tan to purplish, while the pore surface is pink to reddish orange. Pores are circular or angular and number two to three per millimetre. C. excelsa has a monomitic hyphal system, with only generative hyphae. Spores are oblong to somewhat cylindrical, measuring 3.5–5 by 2–2.5 μm.^[3]