(Bjerkandera adusta)
Conservation • Description • Habitat • Ecology • Distribution • Taxonomy
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IUCN Red List | not listed |
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Minnesota | not listed |
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Description |
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Smoky Polypore is a widespread and fairly common bracket fungus. It is found in dense, overlapping rows or fused clusters on dead hardwoods. It is rarely found on conifers. It usually takes the form of bracket on the side of a tree or log but occasionally appears as a crust on the underside of a dead branch. The fruiting body is a medium-sized, unstalked bracket. The bracket is elongated or fan-shaped, flat or wavy, up to 4″ wide, and up to 2⅜″ deep. It is leathery and flexible or corky when fresh, becoming rigid and inflexible when dry. The upper surface is dry and white to tan, smoky gray, or grayish-brown. It is usually weakly concentrically zoned in shades of brown and gray, sometimes unzoned. When young, it is velvety-hairy or finely hairy and the margins are whitish. When mature, it is nearly hairless and the margins turn brown to black, giving a scorched appearance. The species name adjusta means scorched, referring to the blackened margins on mature and older specimens, the most distinguishing feature of the mushroom when encountered in the field. There is no stem. The underside is densely covered with spore-bearing pores. It is whitish when young, bruising gray, and turning smoky gray to blackish at maturity. The pores are very minute and barely visible without a hand lens. There are 5 to 7 pores per millimeter. The spore tubes are no more than 1 ⁄16″ deep. The flesh is white, tough, and corky or leathery. It is not poisonous but is inedible due to a tough texture and a sour taste. The spore print is white. |
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Similar Species |
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Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor) is distinctly zoned in contrasting shades and sometimes multiple colors. The pore surface is white, not gray. |
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Habitat and Hosts |
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Dead hardwoods |
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Ecology |
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Season |
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Present year round but fruits after fall rains |
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Distribution |
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Occurrence |
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Widespread and fairly common |
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Taxonomy |
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Kingdom | Fungi (fungi) | ||
Subkingdom | Dikarya | ||
Division | Basidiomycota (club fungi) | ||
Subdivision | Agaricomycotina (jelly fungi, yeasts, and mushrooms) | ||
Class | Agaricomycetes (mushrooms, bracket fungi, puffballs, and allies) | ||
Subclass | Agaricomycetidae | ||
Order | Polyporales (shelf fungi) | ||
Family | Phanerochaetaceae | ||
Genus | Bjerkandera | ||
A recent study (Justo et al., 2017) reviewed the Polyporales based on new molecular DNA data. The genera were realligned within three new and fifteen existing families. The genus Bjerkandera was transferred from the Meruliaceae family to the Phanerochaetaceae family. |
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Synonyms |
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Common Names |
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Scorched Bracket Smoky Bracket Smoky Polypore |
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Glossary
Polypore
A bracket fungi. A fungi that produces its spores in pores on the underside of a woody fruiting body (conk).
Saprobic
A term often used for saprotrophic fungi. Referring to fungi that obtain their nutrients from decayed organic matter.
Slideshows |
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Bjerkandera adusta - fungi kingdom Fungi Kingdom |
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Published on Jan 23, 2015 Bjerkandera adusta - fungi kingdom |
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Bjerkandera adusta.Champimaginatis.English Text jean pierre Piétri |
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Published on May 1, 2012 Bjerkandera adusta. Polypore brûlé. Non comestible. |
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Ciuperci din Romania, Bjerkandera adusta, ciuperca de lemn Adrian Manolache |
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Published on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Ciuperca necomestibila, Bjerkandera adusta, ciuperca de lemn Adrian Manolache |
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Published on May 5, 2014 Prezinta importanta medicinala. Necomestibila. |
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Ciuperca Bjerkandera adusta, ciuperca de lem, necomestibila Adrian Manolache |
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Published on May 5, 2014 ShareEmbedEmail https://youtu.be/4tMT8xDDAfQ Start at: 0:00 Published on May 5, 2014 Prezinta importanta medicinala. Necomestibila. |
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