Definition of Polyporus squamosus

1. Noun. A fungus with a lateral stalk (when there is a stalk) and a scaly cap that becomes nearly black in maturity; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere.

Exact synonyms: Scaly Polypore
Generic synonyms: Polypore, Pore Fungus, Pore Mushroom
Group relationships: Genus Polyporus, Polyporus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyporus Squamosus

Polyodontidae
Polypedates
Polypedatidae
Polypheme
Polyphemus
Polyplax
Polypodiaceae
Polypodiales
Polypodium aureum
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Polypodium polypodioides
Polypodium scouleri
Polypodium virgianum
Polypodium vulgare
Polyporus frondosus
Polyporus squamosus
Polyporus tenuiculus
Polyprion
Polyprion americanus
Polysphondylium
Polystichum
Polystichum acrostichoides
Polystichum aculeatum
Polystichum adiantiformis
Polystichum braunii
Polystichum lonchitis
Polystichum scopulinum
Polystichum setiferum
Pomacanthus
Pomacentridae

Literary usage of Polyporus squamosus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"polyporus squamosus responds in four ways to the influence of gravity—(1) the negative geotropism of the stem after the initiation of the fruit body under ..."

2. The Journal of Economic Biologyby Walter Edward Collinge, A. H. Reginald Buller, George Herbe by Walter Edward Collinge, A. H. Reginald Buller, George Herbert Carpenter, Robert Newstead, Arthur Everett Shipley (1906)
"15 Variations of the same. 15 New Culicidae. Plates III and IV 36 Ulmus 1no"tuna with fruit-bodies of polyporus squamosus. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1901)
"In polyporus squamosus the fermenting sap is produced only by the receptacle ; in Merulius lacrymans the ... and in the action of polyporus squamosus on the ..."

4. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"Fr. BULLER, AHR The Biology of polyporus squamosus Huds., a Timber- destroying Fungus. Journ. of Economic Biology 1 : 101-138. pls. 5-9. 1906. ..."

5. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"WHITE ROT OF DECIDUOUS TREES polyporus squamosus (Huds.) Fr. DULLER, AHR The Biology of polyporus squamosus Huds., a Timber- destroying Fungus. ..."

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