Hairy Bracket
(Trametes hirsuta)
Conservation • Description • Habitat • Biology • Distribution • Taxonomy
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| IUCN Red List | not listed |
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| NatureServe | NNR - Unranked |
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| Minnesota | not listed |
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Description |
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Hairy Bracket is a small, common, and widely distributed bracket fungus. It is found year round, alone or in groups. It is saprobic, occurring on stumps and fallen logs of dead hardwood trees. There is usually no stem, sometimes just a rudimentary stem. The cap is fan-shaped, semicircular, or kidney-shaped, 1″ to 6″ wide or much wider, and ⅝″ to 2⅜″ deep. It sometimes fuses with adjacent caps. The upper side is concentrically zoned or grooved, and is densely and conspicuously hairy to coarsely velvety hairy. The zones are whitish, grayish, yellowish, or pale brownish. The margin is often dark. The colors are dull and are not highly contrasting. It is often greenish due to a covering of algae. The underside (pore surface) is white, yellowish, or buff when young, becoming brownish or gray with age. There are 2 to 4 pores per mm (about 1 ⁄32″). The pores are small but plainly visible. The flesh is whitish, tough, and watery when fresh, becoming dry, rigid, and corky. It is inedible. |
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Similar Species |
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| Trametes pubescens is smaller, no more than 3⅛″ wide. The cap and margin are radially striate. The margin is not brown or darkened. The pore surface becomes yellowish with age. | ||
Habitat and Hosts |
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In clusters on stumps and logs of dead hardwood trees |
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Biology |
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Season |
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Fresh in late summer and autumn but persist Year round |
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Common and widespread |
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Taxonomy |
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| Kingdom | Fungi (fungi) | ||
| Subkingdom | Dikarya | ||
| Phylum | Basidiomycota (club fungi) | ||
| Subphylum | Agaricomycotina (jelly fungi, yeasts, and mushrooms) | ||
| Class | Agaricomycetes (mushroom-forming fungi) | ||
| Subclass | Agaricomycetidae | ||
| Order | Polyporales (shelf fungi) | ||
| Family | Polyporaceae (bracket fungi) | ||
| Genus | Trametes | ||
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Common Names |
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Hairy Bracket |
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Glossary
Saprobic
Obtaining nutrients from non-living organic matter, such as decaying plant or animal matter.
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Slideshows |
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| Trametes hirsuta - fungi kingdom Nineli Lishina |
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About
Published on Jan 25, 2015 Trametes hirsuta - fungi kingdom |
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| Trametes hirsuta.Champimaginatis.English Text jean pierre Piétri |
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Published on Jan 14, 2013 Trametes hirsuta. Tramète hirsute. Non comestible. |
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| Species of mushrooms Trametes hirsuta Adrian Manolache |
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Published on Nov 16, 2016 |
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| Luciearl 11/14/2021 |
Location: Fairview Twp, Cass County These truly were pure white. |
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| Nancy Falkum 5/14/2018 |
Location: Bald Eagle Bluff SNA |
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| Robert Briggs 10/20/2016 |
Location: Southern River Trail in Afton State Park |
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