Specimen #7 Merulius tremellosus, Dry Rot Fungus

 Figure 1: Porous underside of fungi.

 

     Figure 2: Topside of fungi showing color getting lighter moving from proximal to distal.

 

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--    Name: Merulius tremellosus

-          Common name: Dry Rot Fungus

-          Family: Meruliaceae

-          Collection Date: September 22, 2016

-          Habitat: dead tree log

-          Location: South Chagrin Nature Reserve

-          Description: light brown color, striped, gets lighter color as it goes outwards

-          Keying Guide: Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora

-          Intro Key p. 52-55 Fruiting body shelflike…. Polypores & Bracket Fungi, p 549; 1B Not as above; spore-bearing surface not composed of tubes, or if composed of tubes then the tubes forming a united layer; fruiting body fleshy, tough, woody, etc…2; 2B Fruiting body knoblike, hooflike, bracketike, shelflike, or crustlike; stalk absent, rudimentary, or attached to side or top of cap; growing on wood or roots……4; 4B Pore surface exposed; not growing on birch, or if on birch  then margin not curblike….5; 5B Not as above; pore surface differently colored and/or not separable and elastic-gelatinous…..6; 6B Fruiting body normally with a cap(upper sterile surface), but sometimes resupinate, especially if growing on the undersides of logs….7; 7A Spore bearing surface composed of shallow veins which may form very broad “pores” or pits….(see Stereaceae & Allies, p 604); 1B Not as above….2; 2B Not as above….4; 4B Not as above….5; 5B Not as above….7; 7B Spore-bearing surface conspicuously warty, lumpy, furrowed, ridged, wrinkled, pitted, or honeycombed with large “pores”….13; 13B Growing in the wild(on logs, stumps, etc.)….15; 15B Not as above; spore-bearing surface usually with a honeycomb or veined appearance; cap or free margin sometimes present….16; 16A Cap or free margin hairy, white….Merulius tremellosus(see Serula lacrymans, p 610)