Help needed to ID fungus that looks a bit like Hypoxylon

[pleb]

Am I anywhere close when I say that it is Hypoxylon like? Found growing on a rotting tree trunk in a wooded area, Bircham Valley Local Nature Reserve, Plymouth. Each discrete part of the fungus was about 5mm across. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Phil

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by pleb

Am I anywhere close when I say that it is Hypoxylon like? Found growing on a rotting tree trunk in a wooded area, Bircham Valley Local Nature Reserve, Plymouth. Each discrete part of the fungus was about 5mm across. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Phil

Hi Phil

I think we would have to say a teeny bit like a Hypoxylon only

I suspect a cut across with a knife would not reveal lots of Hypoxylon-like chambers, and where is all that white coming from?; I think that this is not an ascomycete at all but young and developing Datronia mollis

so I'm sorry - but not even close . . . .

cheers

Chris

[pleb]

Thanks, Chris.

It was all the white pores underneath that were confusing me.
Fungi shouldn't be allowed to have a juvenile stage...they are hard enough to identify as it is....at least for a beginner like me

Phil

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by pleb

Thanks, Chris.

It was all the white pores underneath that were confusing me.
Fungi shouldn't be allowed to have a juvenile stage...they are hard enough to identify as it is....at least for a beginner like me

Phil

Datronia mollis is extremely variable, but the clincher here were those maze like pore structures.

Neil.

[alindsay]

OK Chris/Neil,

So why not Split Porecrust (Schizopora paradoxa) ?

I thought I had found this, photo below:



... thanks to the wise ones in advance

Alison

[stickman]

Hi Alison

I wouldn't expect S.paradoxa to have a dark upper-surface (or any upper-surface for that matter....)

So maybe this is Datronia mollis too.....

Cheers,
Nick