Phellinus viticola

Description

Phellinus viticola is a species of fungus belonging to the family Hymenochaetaceae. The fruiting bodies are gray or dark gray perennial, hat-like, or semi-spreading. The carpels may grow in groups, sometimes with caps fused laterally or arranged in a roof-like arrangement above one another.

It grows on rotting trunks and branches of conifers, especially spruces, from hilly areas to mountains, in some places quite abundantly.

A similar and much rarer bordered fireweed (Phellinus nigrolimitatus) grows on similar substrates and produces larger fruiting bodies.

Spruce firefly (Phellinus chrysoloma) has elongated tube mouths and almost spherical spores.

Mushroom Identification

1. Fruiting Bodies

   0.5–2 cm long, 1–15 cm wide, 0.2–1 cm thick, spreading or spreading bent, sometimes in the form of shingle-like bent caps. The surface of the bent caps is velvety-hairy, hard, zonal, and chestnut-colored, with age it fades to gray or dark gray, with a lighter edge.

2. Tubes

   1–10 mm long, yellowish-brown or brownish-brown, grayish inside, with thin, downy septa on the edge.

3. Pores

   0.25 - 0.5 mm in diameter, rounded, slightly angular, with a density of 3 - 4 per 1 mm.

4. Spores

   6-9 * 1.5*2 μm, cylindrical, flattened on one side, pointed on the other side, colorless.

5. Spore Print

   Yellowish.

6. Flesh

   0.5-1 mm thick, fibrous-leathery, brown or brownish.

7. Habitat

   It grows on coniferous wood, mainly on spruces and pines, very rarely on deciduous trees. A very rare species.

Synonyms

1. Polyporus viticola Schwein., 1828

2. Poria viticola (Schwein.) Cooke, 1886

3. Fuscoporia viticola (Schwein.) Murrill, 1907

4. Fomes viticola (Schwein.) J. Lowe, 1957

5. Boletus superficialis Schwein., 1822

6. Daedalea ravenelii Berk., 1872

7. Trametes isabellina Fr., 1874

8. Fomes tenuis P. Karst., 1887

9. Trametes setosa Weir, 1914

10. Phellinus isabellinum (Fr.) Bourdot & Galzin, 1925

Photo sources:

Photo 1 - Author: Olli Manninen (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Photo 2 - Author: caspar s (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Photo 3 - Author: Andreas Kunze (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Photo 4 - Author: Gerhard Koller (Gerhard) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Photo 5 - Author: Gerhard Koller (Gerhard) (CC BY-SA 3.0)