Specimen #1

Jelly Fungi



Figure1: Exidia glandulosa on fallen branch.

Figure2: Up close view of Exidia glandulosa.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1156639



Name: Exidia glandulosa
Common Name: Black Witche's Butter

Family: Auriculariaceae
Collection Date:  13th Sept. 2011

Habitat: Fungi found on a fallen branch beneath a cluster of trees. 

Location: South Chagrin Reservation

Description: Small, only about 0.5cm (each head). Dark brown and gelatinous. In clusters on branch, a few not clustered.

Collector: Olivia Benjamin

 

Key used: Orson K. Miller Jr. 1977. Mushrooms of North America. E.P. Dutton New York.

Keying Steps:

Introduction Key pg. 317
1a. Not stalked, earlike, cuplike or irregular masses; always on wood...2
2b. Jelly-like masses of earlike lobes, yellow orange to brown...3
3b. Brown to gray-brown lobes...5
5b. Smaller, 2-6cm long, lobed, dark brown ---> 381 Exidia grandulosa.

Ecology: saprotroph, growing on recently fallen and rotting branches, usually encountered in both spring and fall. Widely distrubuted throughout North America (Kuo, 2007).

Kuo, M. (2007, April). Exidia glandulosa. Retrieved from the MushroomExpert.Com Web site: http://www.mushroomexpert.com/exidia_glandulosa.html


Links

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/exidia_glandulosa.html
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1156639
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhNwJvTbJxo