Antrodia serialis

Description:

Antrodia serialis which forms patches on spruce wood that can be at least 20 cm. Across, tending to form mini tough leathery brackets. Where it turns up to make the little brackets it shows ochre-brown colours, the pore /under surface is white, pores 2-4 per mm. Found on dead conifer wood (mostly on spruce (Picea), at any time of the year. Not common. Spores 6.5-9x3-4um

Habitat:

location: Europe edibility: Inedible fungus colour: White to cream, Grey to beige normal size: Less than 5cm cap type: Other stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent habitat: Grows on wood ( http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/D... )

Notes:

Growth characters. Growth slow, plates covered in five to six weeks. Advancing zone 1.0-2.0 cm. broad, appressed, hyaline, changing abruptly to white mat, appressed, felty, Boon pitted and corrugated to form irregularly pored surface (one to three weeks), which finally extends over whole surface of colony. Reverse unchanged. Odor none or slightly fruity. On gallic and tannic acid agars no diffusion zones (may be slight browning around colony on gallic acid agar), colony 1.0-2.0 cm. diameter on gallic acid agar, trace to 1.0 cm. diameter on tannic acid agar. Hyphal characters. Advancing zone: hyphae hyaline, nodose-septate, 1.5-4.5(-6.0) µm diameter. Aerial mycelium: (a) hyphae as in advancing zone, frequently with numerous, small, pointed projections in which walls are thickened and refractive; (b) fiber hyphae very numerous, watts thick and refractive, aseptate, occasionally branched, 1.5-3.0 µm diameter. Fruit body: (a) thin-walled and (b) fiber hyphae as in aerial mycelium; (c) basidia 4.5-6.3 µm diameter, bearing four sterigmata up to 4.5-7.2 µm in length; (d) basidiospores hyaline even, cylindric, (5.4-)6.3-8.1 x 2.2-2.9 µm. Submerged mycelium: (a) nodose-septate hyphae as described above; (b) crystals numerous, octahedral or platelike. Type of rot: brown cubical rot of broad-leaved and-coniferous trees. ( http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Li... ) -------2 different spotting, but on the same day in the same forest. totally do i have still just 5 picture, therefore do i post them as 1 spotting. picture 1-3 = #1 / picture 4-5 = #2 (found him 10 min later)