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Phlebia tremellosa
Merulioid fungus growing on a mossy, rotting hardwood log, surrounded by ferns. Fertile surface is peach to white and slightly translucent with multiple interconnected wrinkles. "Upper" surface is white with some hairy teeth-like projections at the edges. Phlebia tremellosa is in the Meruliaceae family. It is considered an effused-reflexed crust fungus (or partially resupinate and partially pileate fungus), as its fertile surface is displayed on top while a small portion of a cap (pileus) is also present. "Merulioid" fungi are characterized by a wrinkled fertile surface (hymenium) and are typically classified as basidiomycetes, fungi which produce spores via club-shaped cells called basidia.
Growing on a mossy, rotting hardwood log at the bottom of a ridge in a dense mixed hardwood/pine forest in Northwest Georgia (Gordon County), US, surrounded by ferns.
Spotted on Nov 5, 2017
Submitted on Nov 9, 2017
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