Cerrena     Genus



Cortinarius husseyiKey to Gilled Mushrooms     Key
This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.



Fomes fomentariusPolyporaceae     Family
Fertile surface usually a layer of vertical tubes, of which the mouths are visible as pores on the underside of the cap or shelf.
Fruiting bodies usually tougher or harder than the "normal" gilled mushrooms, being leathery, corky, or woody. But they can be quite tender while actively growing
Once grown, they do not decay easily, remaining on the substrate for months or years
They often grow on wood, although a few are terrestrial (even those are usually growing on buried wood)
Fruiting body is usually a flat shelf, or hoof-shaped, protruding directly from the substrate, although sometimes it may have a short stalk.
Some forms never grow away from the substrate at all, so that all that is visible of the fruiting body are the pores.
Sometimes the pores are so minute that the fertile surface seems solid, until you look closely



Phellinus ignariusLignicopolypore     Subfamily
Growing on wood


Daedalea quercinaMaze-o-porus     Tribe
Fungi with a hymenophore of irregular, interweaving plates that divide the space between them into long, twisting chambers and maze-like passageways.
Usually the plates are quite hard and woody, sometimes just tough, never as soft and fragile as the gills on gilled mushrooms

Wood-o-maze-o-porus     Subtribe
Cerrena unicolor
Top concentrically wrinkled, with the appearance of zoned wood, though perhaps a little bit hairy
Links from Look-alikes
Maze-o-porus     Tribe
Daedalea quercina
Fungi with a hymenophore of irregular, interweaving plates that divide the space between them into long, twisting chambers and maze-like passageways.
Usually the plates are quite hard and woody, sometimes just tough, never as soft and fragile as the gills on gilled mushrooms
Daedaleoporus     SemiTribe
Daedalea quercina
Fruiting body hard, woody
Mossoporus     Subtribe
Fruiting body hard or tough
Usually with moss or algae growing on the initially hairy top

Cerrena     Genus     Micheli: S. F. Gray




Cerrena unicolor

Diagnosis

Comments

Mind you, I'm not completely sure how the genus was created by S. F. Gray, if the type species was only named 80 years later by Murrill

Narrow down your identification:


Cerrena unicolorCerrena unicolor
Up to 3" across
If you have something bigger, try Trametes


 

 


Glossary
Glossary
Mushrooms
Mushrooms
HomeMycoPeople
People
Newsletter
Newsletter
Events
Events