ID help requested for Plymouth fungi in deciduous plantation

[pleb]

A WAB member has offered to look at the spores of the Ganoderma so hopefully the species can be sorted out. What kind people mycologists are......and I have spent all these years looking at flowering plants!

Phil

[flaxton]

Phil
Plenty of spores on your sample sections. The first few I looked at were right on the overlap of sizes for the two species but then I found more that are perfect for definitive id. This one is 10 x 7.2 so can only be from Ganoderma australe.


Mal

[Jonners]

Originally Posted by pleb

Help for a fungus newbie trying to find his feet would be much appreciated.

phil

They're probably at the bottom of your legs Happy Christmas

[pleb]

Jonners,

You are spot on. I had a look and there were my feet just like you said at the bottom of my legs.

Thanks Mal, Ganoderma australe it is then. Though this refers to another thread:

Ganoderma sp id help for newbie

Thanks to you all for making me welcome to the Fungus Forum and Happy Christmas to everyone.

Phil

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by flaxton

Phil
Plenty of spores on your sample sections. The first few I looked at were right on the overlap of sizes for the two species but then I found more that are perfect for definitive id. This one is 10 x 7.2 so can only be from Ganoderma australe.


Mal

This would agree with what we can/can not see in the enlarged photo.
Quote from 'European Polypores' 1 by Ryvarden & Gilbertson:

2. Context brown, often mottled with white spots and streaks, dark context zones usually present between tube layers, upper crust up to 0.5 mm thick, spores shorter than 8.5µm. ......................... 1. Ganoderma applanatum

2. Context dark reddish brown and homogenous, tube layers not separated by contex zones, upper crust more than 0.5 mm thick, spores longer than 8.5 µm. ................................... 2. Ganoderma australe.

There are two tube layers just about visible indicating this specimen is 2 years old, but I can not see any context layer separating the two tube layers and with the reddish brown appearance, lack of any white mottled areas and Mal's calibrations, this is without doubt, as Mal states, G. australe.

Happy Xmas Everyone.

Neil.