Specimen #8 Stereum hirsutum, False Turkey Tail

 Figure 1: Porous underside of fungi.

 Figure 2: Close up of feathery looking structures.

Figure 3: Image showing striped with dark colors.

-          Name: Stereum hirsutum group

-          Common Name: False Turkey Tail; Hairy Stereum

-          Family: Stereaceae

-          Collection Date: September 22, 2016

-          Habitat: dead tree log

-          Location: Nelson Ledges

-          Description: Dark brown, striped with darker color, white tipped

-          Keying Guide: Mushroom 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; 7A Spore-bearing surface smooth to slightly uneven sometimes cracked….8; 8B Fruiting body usually found on wood, or if on ground then usually with a cap(upper surface)….9; 9B Not as above….10; 10B Not as above; found o hardwoods and/or fruiting body not “bleeding”….11; 11B Not as above….12; 12B Not as above(but cap usually with fine velvety hairs) Stereum hirsutum group & others, below p605-606