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Polyporus badius

Polyporus badius

Photo by Mark Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

Medium sized (50mm) pale brown-grey wavy pileus, very thin and white at margin; white, truncated cone shaped stipe (wider at the top) slightly eccentric; no obvious frill but with a fibrous looking clump at the base. Fine pores underneath merges imperceptibly with stipe.

Habitat:

Dense, very tall eucalyptus forest on fallen eucalyptus log.

Notes:

Same species found same day... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/9490004

http://www.blueswami.com/australian_fungi.html?page=0&scope=1&sortby=ti…

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (6)
AlexKonig
at the start it is sometimes more than just confusing, but keep going, try to get to the families first. After that it get more easy, the only thing which is stll confusing are the constantly changing taxonomy. good luck argybee
Mark Ridgway
Thanks for that Alex. I just can't keep up with this fungi business. They come in faster than I can ID them. I have given up on this one for a while.
AlexKonig
take a look at polyporus leptocephalus ( http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&sugexp=frgbld&gs_nf=1&cp=11&gs_id=16&xhr=t&q=polyporus+leptocephalus&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1110&bih=688&wrapid=tljp1332076813675020&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=GOFlT4LVMIax0AWZ0uWQCA ) --- they look similiar, compare them. But surely shoud it be a polypore {narrow further in }--> polyporus sp. ( http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=polyporus&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1110&bih=688&wrapid=tlif133207670036810&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=pOBlT775DoHQhAfrvM2NCA ). good luck. :)
Mark Ridgway
I have spent so many hours on this I think I feel sea-sick. Do you have a remedy please?
AlexKonig
do you already has a guess for this one!! or will you hear one ?? :)

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PublishedMarch 13, 2012

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