Caps, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like]

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The fruitbodies of most of the species in this group grow from wood, but sometimes that wood may be buried (e.g. dead roots). Some examples of fruitbody attachment are:

Cap roughly semicircular and attached to wood along the cap’s diameter.

Cap more-or-less circular but tapering to a narrow attachment point.

Cap on the underside of dead wood and attached by its top.

Cap like an upside-down cup, with the edge of the cup attached to wood.

Caps, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like]

Furry, white or greyish upper surfaces

Gills connected by cross veins

Other caps, gills below, no stem

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Heinol wrote:

1 hr ago

Hi Clarel, you've done the right thing with the photo angles. The problem here is the fungus itself. This fruitbody is rather nondescript - smooth, whiteish top and gills. White(ish) is a common colour and so there is very little visual information here. With these virtually stemless and featureless fruitbodies spore colour is a thing I look for. If a group of these have grown overlapping, you can often see that a cap has dropped a lot of spores onto the cap below. In this photo (https://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/images-captions/entoloma-sp-0248.html) of a quite different fungus you can see that some pale, flesh-coloured spores have fallen onto the lower cap. Sometimes when you have only a single cap you might see a spore deposit on the wood below or on the ground (if the cap is fairly close to the ground). I couldn’t see anything that looked like a spore deposit in your photos. I suspect that is because the single cap is out in the open where it is exposed to even slight breezes that will carry most spores away. If the cap had been well-sheltered, e.g. by rocks or grass tussocks that block a lot of breeze, many spores would probably have fallen onto the wood below. If I were collecting this for a herbarium specimen I’d set it up for a spore print once I got home.

Crepidotus sp.

Clarel wrote:

2 hrs ago

Thanks Heinol, really appreciate the time it takes moderating. Am I missing a photo angle, usually I snap top, bottom and a photo showing the general environment? I looked at the NaturMapr field guide to make this suggestion.

Crepidotus sp.

Heinol wrote:

3 hrs ago

Perhaps a Crepidotus, perhaps not. From the photos alone I can't tell.

Crepidotus sp.

Teresa wrote:

12 Dec 2024

The fusing on the gills look very like those of a Pseudomerulius sp.

Schizophyllum commune

Heino1 wrote:

8 Oct 2024

Possibly a species of Hohemnbuehelia.

Unidentified Cap, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like]

Caps, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like]

Caps, gills below, no stem & usually on wood [stemless mushrooms & the like]

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