Classification:
Phylum Basidiomycota
Class Agaricomycetes
Order Agaricales
Family Tricholomataceae
Isolation and culturing methods:
This fruiting body was collected on April 15th at Dale’s Ridge Trail in Lewisburg, PA. It was collected from a branch that had fallen (shown in image). It was placed in a paper bag and brought back to the lab to further analyze and identify.
Culture appearance and growth
The fungus is a crust fungus. It is really small, its diameter is around .5 cm. It has hymenium is gilled. The fungi are fan shaped and slightly overlap each other. They seemed to have been flattened down during collection.
