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Rusty Porecrust

phellinus ferruginosus ( Rostbrauner Feuerschwamm – Fuscoporia ferruginosa )

Photo by AlexKonig
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Description:

Phellinus is a genus of fungi in the family Hymenochaetaceae. Many species cause white rot. Fruiting bodies, which are found growing on wood, are resupinate, sessile, and perennial. The flesh is tough and woody or cork-like, and brown in color. Clamp connections are absent, and the skeletal hyphae are yellowish-brown

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europa - i get crazy, because of the "taxa"- changing. {neeed "new" -updated reference-books}. I got cunfused throught al the names: Phellinus-Ferruginosus / Fuscoporia-Ferruginosa / Phellinus-Ferruginosa. !! Not many sites had provided infos, and those who did, had not much or good !!

Notes:

The name Phellinus means cork
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The "porecrust" are perennial, consoles until crust-shaped fruiting bodies with pore-shaped, usually brown fruit layer, the tubes are layered and often have a hard crust. The pores of the fruiting bodies are small and cramped. The trama of the fruiting body is hard, brown and dry, with KOH, it will turn black. Microscopically, the "porecrust" are characterized by a hyphal Dimiter, with generative hyphae are cylindrical, thin walled, colorless to yellowish, the Skeletthyphen are thick-walled, golden brown and scarcely branched. Buckles are missing from the fruit pulp are mostly brown, conical, apically pointed setae present. The basidia are short, clavate-ellipsoid, colorless and viersporig a Basalschnalle missing. The spores of the "porecrust" are spherical or ellipsoidal to cylindrical and smooth, they can be thin-or thick-walled and are inamyolid (with no blue staining Jodreagenz).

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