trufflesmith's Identifications

Growing among leaf litter near pine trees, fallen pine needles incorporated into fruiting body (cap, stalk, volva). Near stagnant body of water. Features pores instead of gills, no partial veil present.

Habitat: Growing in soil in a hardwood forest.
Notes: Pileus is pale tan and white with a depressed center. Hymenium is poroid, but I would not call it decurrent as it clearly ends before the stipe. The poroid hymenium immediately led me to the Bolete family, while the large size, pale color, and depressed center led me to the Tylopilus genus. I believe that it could by Tylopilus rhoadsiae due to the size and shape of the specimen, but I could not be sure.

Specimen was found in dead wood. And as common for Trametes spp. it has a sessile, fan-shaped cap but also laterally fused and spreading across the substrate. The cap measured up to 2cm wide and 10 cm long with a sligthly zonate upper surface. Fertile surface has pores (4-5 per mm) and brownish pale color (dark brown when mature) with dark purple brownish edges.

This particular polypore has macroscopic characteristics that resemble the genus Trametes and the genus Stereum. The caps are effused-reflexed to resupinate and the upper surface is zonated and cream-colored. It was found attached to a trunk of dead wood by a narrow base. The semicircular shell-shaped caps are more lobed when compared to Trametes spp. The lower surface is whitish, turns tan when mature and has small tooth projections. Due to the age of the sample, microscopic evaluation was not performed.

These specimens are sessile caps attached to wood by a narrowed base. Fruitbody upper surface is fan-shaped, measure approximately 8 x 6 cm, is zonate and has ocre to yellowish color (more orange when mature and dried). Features are similar to S ostrea and S subtomentosum (Bessette et al. 2021).

Macroscopic features of this fungi are similar to P candolleana e P umbonata, however the specimens have more proeminent umbilicate cap compatible with P umbonata. Microscopic evaluation revelead elliptical, pale brown spores, measuring 11x5µm.

Specimens presented cap with 2-5 cm, centrally depressed, reddish to orange brown; gills are decurrent and stalk are thick (up to 2mm in diameter) and bulbous at the base. Microscopically features are compatible with description of Bessette et al. (2007, 2019), and similar to L amethystina and L laccata. Spores are globose, hyaline, with presence of little spines. Spore measurement is ~10x9 µm in diameter (Bessette et al. 2019).

Macroscopic characteristics are similar to at least 2 different species of Lactarius (L argillaceifolius and L delicatus) The cap is convex with a depressed center, sticky and pale tan, measuring around 7 cm. Gills are cream color, slightly decurrent and release a yellow latex when bruised. Stalk is central, thick and slimy. Observed spores were elliptical and hyaline, ornamented with slightly prominences. A partial reticulum mentioned by Bessette et al. (2019) can be seen in the majority of the spores.

Thick cap with deep pores & flat pore surface typical of Boletes.

Blue staining, stipe reticulation, red coloring at base. Spores fusoid & yellow-brown. Cap resembles Boletus ochraceoluteus, but pores are distinctly dissimilar from that species.

ID matching description in Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States by Bessette, Bessette, & Lewis (2019)