Trametes ochracea (Pers.) Gilb. & Ryvarden
no common name
Polyporaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Polyporaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Species Information
Summary:
Features include 1) a finely tomentose to bald, bracket-like or shelf-like fruitbody that is rigid to hard, in shades of whitish to brownish, with zones of darker or more reddish brown color, 2) nonzoned cream flesh, 3) thick-walled cream to grayish thick-walled pores, and 4) microscopic characters. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1) except where noted.
Microscopic:
spores 6-8 x 2-2.5 microns, cylindric, slightly curved, smooth, inamyloid; basidia 4-spored, 15-20 x 4-5 microns, clavate, with basal clamp; cystidia absent; hyphae trimitic, generative hyphae of context 2-3.5 microns wide, thin-walled, with clamp connections, skeletal hyphae of context 4-8 microns wide, thick-walled, nonseptate, binding hyphae of context 2.5-5 microns wide, "thick-walled, nonseptate, much branched"; hyphae of trama similar
Spore Deposit:
white (Buczacki)
Notes:
Trametes ochracea has been found in BC, WA, OR, ID, AB, MB, NS, ON, PQ, SK, AK, AZ, CO, CT, IA, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NY, SD, UT, VT, WI, and WY, (Gilbertson).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Trametes versicolor is less pale and more strongly zoned, with a thin flexible consistency (not rigid and hard), has a black layer in the context, and has slightly smaller pores and spores, (Gilbertson). T. versicolor and Trametes hirsuta have a black line beneath the surface tomentum of the cap, (Ginns), Trametes pubescens has a cap surface with a uniform cream color and is not zoned or very faintly zoned, (Ginns).Habitat
"annual or reviving", on dead wood of hardwoods, rarely on conifer wood, associated with a white rot of dead hardwoods, (Gilbertson), all year (Buczacki)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Polyporus zonatus Nees: Fr.
Tremella moriformis Sm. & Sowerby: Fr.