Poroid Bracket Fungus

Description:

GROWTH: Slow growth 2.0 cm in 1 week. APPEARANCE: Advancing zone is white, even, and slightly raised. Has short cottony mycelium below the advancing zone. Mat white, cottony to cottony-woolly in the major portion, floccose-cottony at some places and velvety over the inoculum. Reverse unchanged. ODOR: Odor is pleasant. HYPHAL CHARACTERS: • Advancing zone: hyphae hyaline, thin-walled, branched, nodose septate, 1.5-4.6 µm diameter. • Aerial mycelium: (a) hyphae as in advancing zone but sometimes clamp connections in pairs; (b) chlamydospores slightly thick-walled, intercalary, oval to cylindrical, 20.1-24.6 × 6.1-10.7 µm. • Submerged mycelium: hyphae as in aerial mycelium.

Habitat:

Growing on the Southwest and Southeast-facing sides of a dead log under a tree along the wall.

Notes:

T. cubensis is characterized by its white cottony-woolly mat and presence of chlamydospores.