Polyporus radicatus

Key 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.

Polyporaceae 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

Lignicopolypore Subfamily

Growing on wood

Stipitoporus Tribe

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

Polyporus Genus Cap lacking hard crusty upper surface or large, angular pores Fruiting body flexible if it's not really thick	Links from Look-alikes Small Terrestriopolypore Tribe If your small terrestrial polypore does not fit the diagnosis for Coltricia, then you probably have a young specimen of some other genus
Blackfoot Polypore Section Stem black, at least towards the base	Terrestriopolypore Subfamily Growing on ground

Polyporus radicatus Schweinitz

Here are the characters that distinguish this species from the others in its group. For its more general characters, see higher up on the page.
If there's just a few words or a microscopic feature here, a more thorough description can be found above.

Polyporus radicatus