Ganoderma     Section



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


Polyporus radicatusStipitoporus     Tribe
Not fitting the other choices, fruiting body with well-developed stem

Ganoderma     Genus
Ganoderma applanatum
Either cap shiny reddish brown (as if varnished), or dull brown with a white pore surface that turns brown when scratched
Cap often with a white margin.
Pores minute (4-7 per mm), almost too small to see.
Spores reddish-brown.
Causes a white rot
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Red Cap Polypore     Subtribe
Pycnoporus cinnabarinus
Cap at least partly red, pink or red-orange
Pore surface white to pale buff, but may discolor reddish

Ganoderma     Section     




Ganoderma lucidum

Diagnosis




Ganoderma lucidum

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Ganoderma lucidumGanoderma lucidum
growing on hardwoods


 

 


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