Can anyone help to identify this fungus?

[CorneliusMS]

Can anyone help to identify (what looks almost to be a set of dentures in) this photo ? It appeared very recently and forms a ring about 10 to 12 centimetres in diameter in the lawn. Most of its 'bulk' appears to be below the soil and is quite tough as fungal tissue goes. Perhaps it has yet to develop its fruiting bodies above ground ??

We have one or two other, more easily-identifiable (toadstool-type) species of fungi that inhabit the lawn area but I've never seen anything like this before.

[Ditiola]

Hi

My guess is: Abortiporus biennis

Try google images and see what you think

Peter

[fairplay]

I totally agree with Peter.
You will find it is attached to underground roots just below the surface and favours quite wet ground.

It should bruise red, and when it grows bigger and starts to flatten out you will notice red juice running off it.

Neil.

[Chris Yeates]

thirded - you will often find that when growing in a lawn or other grassland it will grow in a strange fashion, surrounding living blades of grass, like this:
http://www.jsimons.dsl.pipex.com/Fun...us_biennis.jpg

Chris

[CorneliusMS]

Ah yes ! A. biennis it must be, Peter. Too small yet for free-flowing red juices but small as it is right now, I can already find shafts of grass embedded in the fungal tissue, Neil/Chris. Bizarre but fascinating.
Thank you gentlemen.