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Originally Posted by flaxton  I found these two in an area that is normally under water. Can anyone make any suggestions. 
This one was on a piece of well rotted wood 
This on rush/sedge stem. Spores c10.5 x 1.5
Thanks
Mal |
Hi Mal
The upper photograph is of a resupinate basidiome of a species of
Hymenochaete - either
H. rubiginosa (I think that I can see a 'bracket' in the top right hand corner) which is very common on old wood of oak or it could possibly be
H. tabacina which is lot less common, but known to occurs on willow (which the wood might be from, since growing in a wet area !).
But neither can be distinguished macroscopically !
I should say that neither of these taxa is restricted to growing on old wood in periodically wet or flooded places, but there are actually a group of fungi that do utilise this niche habitat - the best know of these being corticioid fungi such as
Jaapia sp.,
Bulbilomyces farinosus and the bright yellow
Phlebia subochracea.
The lower specimen is a discomycete, possibly a species of
Mollisia but impossible to say what without microscopic examination !
Nick
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