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Crowded Parchment

Stereum complicatum

Photo by QWMom
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34.17, -84.73

Field Notes

Description:

Fruiting Body: Individually up to about 2 cm across, but usually fused together; fan-shaped, semicircular, irregular--or not infrequently resupinate (lacking a cap structure) to effused-reflexed (resupinate with a folded over edge); densely velvety, hairy, or with appressed hairs (sometimes nearly smooth in age); with concentric zones of color and texture; colors ranging from tan to orange-brown, pinkish, or cinnamon; laterally attached, without a stem.

Undersurface: Smooth; orange.

Flesh: Insubstantial; tough.

Habitat:

Habitat in overlapping or laterally fused groups on dead twigs and stumps of hardwoods, especially oak. Found in Europe and throughout North America except the Rocky Mountains.

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Comments (2)

Thanks! Sure thing - just left a comment for you on your spotting. :)
Very nice spotting QWMom,congrats and thanks for sharing. i have a very similar spotting taken today that i id based in previous spottings id by other users,can you give me your opinion on this ? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/20182104

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