Athelia scutellaris (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Gilb.
no common name
Atheliaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Atheliaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Features include 1) resupinate growth on hardwood limbs, 2) a thin, whitish fruitbody, the surface cracked when mature exposing cobwebby subiculum, 3) spores that are small, smooth, inamyloid, and colorless, 4) 4-spored basidia, 5) hyphae with clamp connections, the hyphae encrusted in the subhymenial area.
Microscopic:
SPORES 4-6 x 2-3 microns, smooth, colorless; CYSTIDIA absent; hyphae 2.5-3.5 microns wide, "suberect, interwoven, thin-walled", "incrusted in the subhymenial region so as to form a conspicuous subhymenial zone of mineral matter", (Burt), SPORES 4-5 x 2-3 microns, elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; BASIDIA 4-spored, 3.5-4 microns wide, clavate; SUBICULAR HYPHAE 2.5-4 microns wide, "thin-walled to moderately thick-walled, nodose-septate, conspicuously incrusted in the subhymenial zone", (Gilbertson)
Notes:
Athelia scutellaris has been found in BC, MB, ON, AZ, AL, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NM, NY, PA, SC, and VA, (Ginns).
Habitat and Range
Habitat
on fallen decaying limbs of hardwoods (Burt), Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple), Aesculus octandra (Yellow Buckeye), Arbutus menziesii (Pacific Madrone), Arundinaria gigantea subsp. tecta (switch cane), Cytisus scoparius (Scottish broom), Liriodendron tulipifera (Tuliptree), Morus rubra (Red Mulberry), Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine), Populus sp., Quercus sp. (oak), Rhododendron canescens (Piedmont azalea), (Ginns)