Yellow Stagshorn

Description:

The fruiting body is 3 to 6 cm high and shaped like a lobe or coral mushroom. They stand together in tufts, its surface is sticky-slippery. They are bright orange color and dark orange on drying. The meat is gelatinous and has a very tough consistency. Smell and taste of the kind are insignificant. The spores measure 8-12 × 4.5 to 5.5 microns and are elliptical, smooth, and when ripe have a cell wall (rarely two). The spore powder is yellowish orange. The basidia are zweiporig and forked. Buckles are not available --Dacrymycetes are a class consisting of only one family of jelly fungi, which has imperforate parenthesomes and basidia that are usually branched. There are 9 genera and 101 species in the Dacrymycetaceae family

Notes:

fam. dacromycetaceae cl. basidiomycota http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacrymycete...