Aleurodiscus oakesii (Berk. & Curt.) Pat.

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Description:
smooth fungus
Fruiting Body: smooth flat discs up to 1 cm. Spores: basidiospores 18-21 x 12-13 µm, ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: small smooth cream colored discs on bark of living oak or Ostrya virginiana

Dynamically generated map
very common

Nutritional Mode: saprobe on bark

Substrate: on trunk bark of living white oak group and Ostrya virginiana

Habitat: oak woods

Fruiting Season: all year

 
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Russulales
 

 

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