2 suppressed
Identification history
| Phanerochaete/Rhizochaete | 19 Aug 2020 | Heino1 | ||
| Unidentified | 16 May 2020 | LisaH |
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User's notes
Initially I thought this was dried cattle urine - but then I looked at the tendrils, and thought . . . nah . . . maybe fungi?
4 comments
Heino1
wrote:
13 Jul 2020
Yes, fungal. There are a number of 'flat fungi' that you find on the underside of fallen wood and that have those tendrils. This is a species Phanerochaete or something that would once have been placed in Phanerochaete, that genus having been split into several. I have a number of herbarium collections of this sort of thing that I'd filed away as Phanerochate but I know that I have to check them to see just what they are.
LisaH
wrote:
14 Jul 2020
Thank you - fascinating. This fungus was not on the underside, but was on the surface of the bark, visible from a distance.
Heino1
wrote:
14 Jul 2020
I'd guess that the wood had been turned over at some stage. The area on the underside of wood lying on the ground is a sheltered micro-habitat, very conducive for such flat fungi - whereas the upper surface is a harsher micro-habitat, exposed to greater temperature variation and drying out.
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 16 May 2020 11:47 AM Recorded on
- LisaH Recorded by
Species information
- Phanerochaete/Rhizochaete Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Machine learning
