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Slo.: malinova golobica - syn.: Russula alutacea (Pers.) Fr., Russula alutacea subsp. romellii (Maire) Singer - Habitat: grassland, former pasture gradually overgrowing with Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies; flat, calcareous, old alluvial ground; quite in shade; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 5-7 deg C, elevation 980 m (3.200 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.Substratum: soil.Comments: From far I thought I found Russula queletii. But totally white stipe, distinctly colored gills and the fact that it had mild taste quickly ruled this option out. Very dense, straw colored, very sparsely branched, with entire edge gills and almost no short gills that extend only part way to stipe, as well as other macroscopically traits and dimensions and surface ornamentation of spores fit well to Russula romellii. However, whenever I call to mind how many species exist in this genus I start to doubt in my determinations. Growing solitary. Pileus diameter 10.5 cm, taste and smell mild; SP beige-yellow-ocher, oac 812.Spores coarsely warty and/or spiny with ridges. Dimensions: 6.6 [7.7 ; 8.1] 9.3 x 5.7 [6.7 ; 7.1] 8.1 microns; Q = 1 [1.1 ; 1.2] 1.3; N = 40; C = 95%; Me = 7.9 x 6.9 microns. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water in vivo. AmScope MA500 digital camera.Ref.:(1) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 12345, Ulmer (2000), p 501. (2) S. Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 314. (3) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.6., Verlag Mykologia (2005), p 234. (4) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 33. (5) L. Hagar, Ottova Encyklopedia Hb, Ottova Nakladatelstvi, Praha (2015) (in Slovakian), p 411.

Slo.: malinova golobica - syn.: Russula alutacea (Pers.) Fr., Russula alutacea subsp. romellii (Maire) Singer - Habitat: grassland, former pasture gradually overgrowing with Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies; flat, calcareous, old alluvial ground; quite in shade; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 5-7 deg C, elevation 980 m (3.200 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Comments: From far I thought I found Russula queletii. But totally white stipe, distinctly colored gills and the fact that it had mild taste quickly ruled this option out. Very dense, straw colored, very sparsely branched, with entire edge gills and almost no short gills that extend only part way to stipe, as well as other macroscopically traits and dimensions and surface ornamentation of spores fit well to Russula romellii. However, whenever I call to mind how many species exist in this genus I start to doubt in my determinations. Growing solitary. Pileus diameter 10.5 cm, taste and smell mild; SP beige-yellow-ocher, oac 812. Spores coarsely warty and/or spiny with ridges. Dimensions: 6.6 [7.7 ; 8.1] 9.3 x 5.7 [6.7 ; 7.1] 8.1 microns; Q = 1 [1.1 ; 1.2] 1.3; N = 40; C = 95%; Me = 7.9 x 6.9 microns. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water in vivo. AmScope MA500 digital camera. Ref.: (1) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 12345, Ulmer (2000), p 501. (2) S. Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 314. (3) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.6., Verlag Mykologia (2005), p 234. (4) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 33. (5) L. Hagar, Ottova Encyklopedia Hb, Ottova Nakladatelstvi, Praha (2015) (in Slovakian), p 411.

Slo.: malinova golobica - syn.: Russula alutacea (Pers.) Fr., Russula alutacea subsp. romellii (Maire) Singer - Habitat: grassland, former pasture gradually overgrowing with Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies; flat, calcareous, old alluvial ground; quite in shade; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 5-7 deg C, elevation 980 m (3.200 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Comments: From far I thought I found Russula queletii. But totally white stipe, distinctly colored gills and the fact that it had mild taste quickly ruled this option out. Very dense, straw colored, very sparsely branched, with entire edge gills and almost no short gills that extend only part way to stipe, as well as other macroscopically traits and dimensions and surface ornamentation of spores fit well to Russula romellii. However, whenever I call to mind how many species exist in this genus I start to doubt in my determinations. Growing solitary. Pileus diameter 10.5 cm, taste and smell mild; SP beige-yellow-ocher, oac 812. Spores coarsely warty and/or spiny with ridges. Dimensions: 6.6 [7.7 ; 8.1] 9.3 x 5.7 [6.7 ; 7.1] 8.1 microns; Q = 1 [1.1 ; 1.2] 1.3; N = 40; C = 95%; Me = 7.9 x 6.9 microns. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water in vivo. AmScope MA500 digital camera. Ref.: (1) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 12345, Ulmer (2000), p 501. (2) S. Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 314. (3) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.6., Verlag Mykologia (2005), p 234. (4) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 33. (5) L. Hagar, Ottova Encyklopedia Hb, Ottova Nakladatelstvi, Praha (2015) (in Slovakian), p 411.

Slo.: malinova golobica - syn.: Russula alutacea (Pers.) Fr., Russula alutacea subsp. romellii (Maire) Singer - Habitat: grassland, former pasture gradually overgrowing with Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies; flat, calcareous, old alluvial ground; quite in shade; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 5-7 deg C, elevation 980 m (3.200 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Comments: From far I thought I found Russula queletii. But totally white stipe, distinctly colored gills and the fact that it had mild taste quickly ruled this option out. Very dense, straw colored, very sparsely branched, with entire edge gills and almost no short gills that extend only part way to stipe, as well as other macroscopically traits and dimensions and surface ornamentation of spores fit well to Russula romellii. However, whenever I call to mind how many species exist in this genus I start to doubt in my determinations. Growing solitary. Pileus diameter 10.5 cm, taste and smell mild; SP beige-yellow-ocher, oac 812. Spores coarsely warty and/or spiny with ridges. Dimensions: 6.6 [7.7 ; 8.1] 9.3 x 5.7 [6.7 ; 7.1] 8.1 microns; Q = 1 [1.1 ; 1.2] 1.3; N = 40; C = 95%; Me = 7.9 x 6.9 microns. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water in vivo. AmScope MA500 digital camera. Ref.: (1) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 12345, Ulmer (2000), p 501. (2) S. Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 314. (3) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.6., Verlag Mykologia (2005), p 234. (4) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 33. (5) L. Hagar, Ottova Encyklopedia Hb, Ottova Nakladatelstvi, Praha (2015) (in Slovakian), p 411.

Slo.: malinova golobica - syn.: Russula alutacea (Pers.) Fr., Russula alutacea subsp. romellii (Maire) Singer - Habitat: grassland, former pasture gradually overgrowing with Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies; flat, calcareous, old alluvial ground; quite in shade; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 5-7 deg C, elevation 980 m (3.200 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Comments: From far I thought I found Russula queletii. But totally white stipe, distinctly colored gills and the fact that it had mild taste quickly ruled this option out. Very dense, straw colored, very sparsely branched, with entire edge gills and almost no short gills that extend only part way to stipe, as well as other macroscopically traits and dimensions and surface ornamentation of spores fit well to Russula romellii. However, whenever I call to mind how many species exist in this genus I start to doubt in my determinations. Growing solitary. Pileus diameter 10.5 cm, taste and smell mild; SP beige-yellow-ocher, oac 812. Spores coarsely warty and/or spiny with ridges. Dimensions: 6.6 [7.7 ; 8.1] 9.3 x 5.7 [6.7 ; 7.1] 8.1 microns; Q = 1 [1.1 ; 1.2] 1.3; N = 40; C = 95%; Me = 7.9 x 6.9 microns. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water in vivo. AmScope MA500 digital camera. Ref.: (1) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 12345, Ulmer (2000), p 501. (2) S. Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 314. (3) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.6., Verlag Mykologia (2005), p 234. (4) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 33. (5) L. Hagar, Ottova Encyklopedia Hb, Ottova Nakladatelstvi, Praha (2015) (in Slovakian), p 411.

Slo.: malinova golobica - syn.: Russula alutacea (Pers.) Fr., Russula alutacea subsp. romellii (Maire) Singer - Habitat: grassland, former pasture gradually overgrowing with Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies; flat, calcareous, old alluvial ground; quite in shade; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 5-7 deg C, elevation 980 m (3.200 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Comments: From far I thought I found Russula queletii. But totally white stipe, distinctly colored gills and the fact that it had mild taste quickly ruled this option out. Very dense, straw colored, very sparsely branched, with entire edge gills and almost no short gills that extend only part way to stipe, as well as other macroscopically traits and dimensions and surface ornamentation of spores fit well to Russula romellii. However, whenever I call to mind how many species exist in this genus I start to doubt in my determinations. Growing solitary. Pileus diameter 10.5 cm, taste and smell mild; SP beige-yellow-ocher, oac 812. Spores coarsely warty and/or spiny with ridges. Dimensions: 6.6 [7.7 ; 8.1] 9.3 x 5.7 [6.7 ; 7.1] 8.1 microns; Q = 1 [1.1 ; 1.2] 1.3; N = 40; C = 95%; Me = 7.9 x 6.9 microns. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water in vivo. AmScope MA500 digital camera. Ref.: (1) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 12345, Ulmer (2000), p 501. (2) S. Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 314. (3) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.6., Verlag Mykologia (2005), p 234. (4) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 33. (5) L. Hagar, Ottova Encyklopedia Hb, Ottova Nakladatelstvi, Praha (2015) (in Slovakian), p 411.

Slo.: malinova golobica - syn.: Russula alutacea (Pers.) Fr., Russula alutacea subsp. romellii (Maire) Singer - Habitat: grassland, former pasture gradually overgrowing with Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies; flat, calcareous, old alluvial ground; quite in shade; exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 5-7 deg C, elevation 980 m (3.200 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Comments: From far I thought I found Russula queletii. But totally white stipe, distinctly colored gills and the fact that it had mild taste quickly ruled this option out. Very dense, straw colored, very sparsely branched, with entire edge gills and almost no short gills that extend only part way to stipe, as well as other macroscopically traits and dimensions and surface ornamentation of spores fit well to Russula romellii. However, whenever I call to mind how many species exist in this genus I start to doubt in my determinations. Growing solitary. Pileus diameter 10.5 cm, taste and smell mild; SP beige-yellow-ocher, oac 812. Spores coarsely warty and/or spiny with ridges. Dimensions: 6.6 [7.7 ; 8.1] 9.3 x 5.7 [6.7 ; 7.1] 8.1 microns; Q = 1 [1.1 ; 1.2] 1.3; N = 40; C = 95%; Me = 7.9 x 6.9 microns. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water in vivo. AmScope MA500 digital camera. Ref.: (1) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Wrttembergs, Band 12345, Ulmer (2000), p 501. (2) S. Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 314. (3) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.6., Verlag Mykologia (2005), p 234. (4) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 33. (5) L. Hagar, Ottova Encyklopedia Hb, Ottova Nakladatelstvi, Praha (2015) (in Slovakian), p 411.

UPDATED INFORMATION: Antrodia malicola, syn. Coriolellus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1920), Daedalea malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Aoshima (1967), Trametes jamaicensis Murrill (1910), Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1856) Slo.: rjavkasta trhlica Date: Jan. 30. 2014 A piece of herbarium specimen has been sent to Mr. Gnter Sturm, Germany for evaluation. He has a very long 'mileage' with Polyporaceae. His habit and microscopic examination yields Antrodia malicola. This is a rather rare polypore (found in three MTB sub-squares in Slovenia) with clamped septs of the hypha and dimitic hypha system. He also found and examined a few spores. All characteristics meet the expectations for this species. He also mentions that, although Antrodia doesnt belong to the Hymenochaetaceae, A. malicola is an exception and reacts with KOH by blackening as it is demonstrated also on one of the pictures attached to the observation Antrodia malicola - I. In the Rhine-Main-Area of Germany, where he lives, they have about 20 finds of A. malicola up to now and he knows the taxon well. The main substrate is Fagus, but it was found also on Carpinus. The mushroom has a fine-aromatic smell, which I somehow overlooked. Gnter thank you for your interest and time. _______________________________ Former text: Slo.: afranasti (?) zlatoluknjiar - Coriolopsis trogii (Berk.) Dom., syn: Trametes trogii Berk or Hapalopilus croceus ? (Pers.) Donk, syn.: Aurantiporus croceus, Inonotus croceus, Phaeolus croceus, Tyromyces croceus - Habitat: Former pasture, on top of a pile of firewood; flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: a cut down, dead, rotten but partly still in bark trunk of Ostrya carpinifolia (about 15 cm diameter) used as a weight and laying on a pile of firewood. - Comments: Two weeks after the first observation I went back to the place, took some additional pictures and samples and did some microscopy. I found several new fruit bodies (pictures added) as well as the old ones, which havent changed much in size and appearance. The new ones were on a different larger ~ 20 cm diameter log a few meters away of the first find on the same substratum. This time I found also two fully resupinated basidiocarps. - To my big surprise, I was unable to find a single spore this time! I scoped hypha of trama and tube layer and basidia. All following comparisons relate to information given in Ref.:(4). Trama hypha seems to be monomitic, a characteristics of H. croceus. I was unable to find any trace of trimitic hypha, which is characteristic to Coriolopsis trogii. Hypha is quite uniform, dense, thin-walled, rarely branched, which also corresponds to H. croceus. It has somewhat larger diameter (measured average value d=3.8, SD=0.5, n=30 and data of H.croceus = 3-6) than C. trogii (generative hypha d=2-3,5(4)). C. trogii has richly branched, thick-walled skeletal and binding hypha, which I was unable to find. Basidia dimensions (measured average l=25.8, SD=3.5 and d=6.4 SD=1.0, n=15) and lack of cystidia fit well to both species. Their shape is generally clavate (which fits to both species), but many are (double) flash shaped, which is not mentioned in the literature available to me. KOH 5% test on trama was again violent, dark red-black. Ref.:(4) states carmine red for H. croceus and unchangeable or only slightly darkening for C. trogii. H.croceus causes white root, which can be seen from one of the added pictures. I havent found this information for C. trogii. - On the other hand, both species should have hypha with clamps and also basidia should have basal clams. I haven't found clamps (poor microscopy?). - Re: substratum. Ref.:(4) and Ref.:(3) state Quercus sp./Castanea sp. for H. croceus and Populus sp./Salix sp. for C. trogii. In my observation it was almost certainly Ostrya carpinifolia, which seems to be closer to Quercus sp. from the stand point of wood properties (very heavy and hard, historically used to fashion plane soles). - I dont know how to interpret this data. What puzzle me are spores wrong dimensions in the first visit and apparent absence of hypha clamps. Could this observation be something third? - Ref.: (1) Personal communication, provisionally id'ed as Hapalopilus by Mr. Anton Poler. (2) Personal communication, provisionally ided as Trametes trogii by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC Tolmin. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 532 and 505. (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 256 and 190.

UPDATED INFORMATION: Antrodia malicola, syn. Coriolellus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1920), Daedalea malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Aoshima (1967), Trametes jamaicensis Murrill (1910), Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1856) Slo.: rjavkasta trhlica Date: Jan. 30. 2014 A piece of herbarium specimen has been sent to Mr. Gnter Sturm, Germany for evaluation. He has a very long 'mileage' with Polyporaceae. His habit and microscopic examination yields Antrodia malicola. This is a rather rare polypore (found in three MTB sub-squares in Slovenia) with clamped septs of the hypha and dimitic hypha system. He also found and examined a few spores. All characteristics meet the expectations for this species. He also mentions that, although Antrodia doesnt belong to the Hymenochaetaceae, A. malicola is an exception and reacts with KOH by blackening as it is demonstrated also on one of the pictures attached to the observation Antrodia malicola - I. In the Rhine-Main-Area of Germany, where he lives, they have about 20 finds of A. malicola up to now and he knows the taxon well. The main substrate is Fagus, but it was found also on Carpinus. The mushroom has a fine-aromatic smell, which I somehow overlooked. Gnter thank you for your interest and time. _______________________________ Former text: Slo.: afranasti (?) zlatoluknjiar - Coriolopsis trogii (Berk.) Dom., syn: Trametes trogii Berk or Hapalopilus croceus ? (Pers.) Donk, syn.: Aurantiporus croceus, Inonotus croceus, Phaeolus croceus, Tyromyces croceus - Habitat: Former pasture, on top of a pile of firewood; flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: a cut down, dead, rotten but partly still in bark trunk of Ostrya carpinifolia (about 15 cm diameter) used as a weight and laying on a pile of firewood. - Comments: Two weeks after the first observation I went back to the place, took some additional pictures and samples and did some microscopy. I found several new fruit bodies (pictures added) as well as the old ones, which havent changed much in size and appearance. The new ones were on a different larger ~ 20 cm diameter log a few meters away of the first find on the same substratum. This time I found also two fully resupinated basidiocarps. - To my big surprise, I was unable to find a single spore this time! I scoped hypha of trama and tube layer and basidia. All following comparisons relate to information given in Ref.:(4). Trama hypha seems to be monomitic, a characteristics of H. croceus. I was unable to find any trace of trimitic hypha, which is characteristic to Coriolopsis trogii. Hypha is quite uniform, dense, thin-walled, rarely branched, which also corresponds to H. croceus. It has somewhat larger diameter (measured average value d=3.8, SD=0.5, n=30 and data of H.croceus = 3-6) than C. trogii (generative hypha d=2-3,5(4)). C. trogii has richly branched, thick-walled skeletal and binding hypha, which I was unable to find. Basidia dimensions (measured average l=25.8, SD=3.5 and d=6.4 SD=1.0, n=15) and lack of cystidia fit well to both species. Their shape is generally clavate (which fits to both species), but many are (double) flash shaped, which is not mentioned in the literature available to me. KOH 5% test on trama was again violent, dark red-black. Ref.:(4) states carmine red for H. croceus and unchangeable or only slightly darkening for C. trogii. H.croceus causes white root, which can be seen from one of the added pictures. I havent found this information for C. trogii. - On the other hand, both species should have hypha with clamps and also basidia should have basal clams. I haven't found clamps (poor microscopy?). - Re: substratum. Ref.:(4) and Ref.:(3) state Quercus sp./Castanea sp. for H. croceus and Populus sp./Salix sp. for C. trogii. In my observation it was almost certainly Ostrya carpinifolia, which seems to be closer to Quercus sp. from the stand point of wood properties (very heavy and hard, historically used to fashion plane soles). - I dont know how to interpret this data. What puzzle me are spores wrong dimensions in the first visit and apparent absence of hypha clamps. Could this observation be something third? - Ref.: (1) Personal communication, provisionally id'ed as Hapalopilus by Mr. Anton Poler. (2) Personal communication, provisionally ided as Trametes trogii by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC Tolmin. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 532 and 505. (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 256 and 190.

UPDATED INFORMATION: Antrodia malicola, syn. Coriolellus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1920), Daedalea malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Aoshima (1967), Trametes jamaicensis Murrill (1910), Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1856) Slo.: rjavkasta trhlica Date: Jan. 30. 2014 A piece of herbarium specimen has been sent to Mr. Gnter Sturm, Germany for evaluation. He has a very long 'mileage' with Polyporaceae. His habit and microscopic examination yields Antrodia malicola. This is a rather rare polypore (found in three MTB sub-squares in Slovenia) with clamped septs of the hypha and dimitic hypha system. He also found and examined a few spores. All characteristics meet the expectations for this species. He also mentions that, although Antrodia doesnt belong to the Hymenochaetaceae, A. malicola is an exception and reacts with KOH by blackening as it is demonstrated also on one of the pictures attached to the observation Antrodia malicola - I. In the Rhine-Main-Area of Germany, where he lives, they have about 20 finds of A. malicola up to now and he knows the taxon well. The main substrate is Fagus, but it was found also on Carpinus. The mushroom has a fine-aromatic smell, which I somehow overlooked. Gnter thank you for your interest and time. _______________________________ Former text: Slo.: afranasti (?) zlatoluknjiar - Coriolopsis trogii (Berk.) Dom., syn: Trametes trogii Berk or Hapalopilus croceus ? (Pers.) Donk, syn.: Aurantiporus croceus, Inonotus croceus, Phaeolus croceus, Tyromyces croceus - Habitat: Former pasture, on top of a pile of firewood; flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: a cut down, dead, rotten but partly still in bark trunk of Ostrya carpinifolia (about 15 cm diameter) used as a weight and laying on a pile of firewood. - Comments: Two weeks after the first observation I went back to the place, took some additional pictures and samples and did some microscopy. I found several new fruit bodies (pictures added) as well as the old ones, which havent changed much in size and appearance. The new ones were on a different larger ~ 20 cm diameter log a few meters away of the first find on the same substratum. This time I found also two fully resupinated basidiocarps. - To my big surprise, I was unable to find a single spore this time! I scoped hypha of trama and tube layer and basidia. All following comparisons relate to information given in Ref.:(4). Trama hypha seems to be monomitic, a characteristics of H. croceus. I was unable to find any trace of trimitic hypha, which is characteristic to Coriolopsis trogii. Hypha is quite uniform, dense, thin-walled, rarely branched, which also corresponds to H. croceus. It has somewhat larger diameter (measured average value d=3.8, SD=0.5, n=30 and data of H.croceus = 3-6) than C. trogii (generative hypha d=2-3,5(4)). C. trogii has richly branched, thick-walled skeletal and binding hypha, which I was unable to find. Basidia dimensions (measured average l=25.8, SD=3.5 and d=6.4 SD=1.0, n=15) and lack of cystidia fit well to both species. Their shape is generally clavate (which fits to both species), but many are (double) flash shaped, which is not mentioned in the literature available to me. KOH 5% test on trama was again violent, dark red-black. Ref.:(4) states carmine red for H. croceus and unchangeable or only slightly darkening for C. trogii. H.croceus causes white root, which can be seen from one of the added pictures. I havent found this information for C. trogii. - On the other hand, both species should have hypha with clamps and also basidia should have basal clams. I haven't found clamps (poor microscopy?). - Re: substratum. Ref.:(4) and Ref.:(3) state Quercus sp./Castanea sp. for H. croceus and Populus sp./Salix sp. for C. trogii. In my observation it was almost certainly Ostrya carpinifolia, which seems to be closer to Quercus sp. from the stand point of wood properties (very heavy and hard, historically used to fashion plane soles). - I dont know how to interpret this data. What puzzle me are spores wrong dimensions in the first visit and apparent absence of hypha clamps. Could this observation be something third? - Ref.: (1) Personal communication, provisionally id'ed as Hapalopilus by Mr. Anton Poler. (2) Personal communication, provisionally ided as Trametes trogii by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC Tolmin. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 532 and 505. (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 256 and 190.

UPDATED INFORMATION: Antrodia malicola, syn. Coriolellus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1920), Daedalea malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Aoshima (1967), Trametes jamaicensis Murrill (1910), Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1856) Slo.: rjavkasta trhlica Date: Jan. 30. 2014 A piece of herbarium specimen has been sent to Mr. Gnter Sturm, Germany for evaluation. He has a very long 'mileage' with Polyporaceae. His habit and microscopic examination yields Antrodia malicola. This is a rather rare polypore (found in three MTB sub-squares in Slovenia) with clamped septs of the hypha and dimitic hypha system. He also found and examined a few spores. All characteristics meet the expectations for this species. He also mentions that, although Antrodia doesnt belong to the Hymenochaetaceae, A. malicola is an exception and reacts with KOH by blackening as it is demonstrated also on one of the pictures attached to the observation Antrodia malicola - I. In the Rhine-Main-Area of Germany, where he lives, they have about 20 finds of A. malicola up to now and he knows the taxon well. The main substrate is Fagus, but it was found also on Carpinus. The mushroom has a fine-aromatic smell, which I somehow overlooked. Gnter thank you for your interest and time. _______________________________ Former text: Slo.: afranasti (?) zlatoluknjiar - Coriolopsis trogii (Berk.) Dom., syn: Trametes trogii Berk or Hapalopilus croceus ? (Pers.) Donk, syn.: Aurantiporus croceus, Inonotus croceus, Phaeolus croceus, Tyromyces croceus - Habitat: Former pasture, on top of a pile of firewood; flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: a cut down, dead, rotten but partly still in bark trunk of Ostrya carpinifolia (about 15 cm diameter) used as a weight and laying on a pile of firewood. - Comments: Two weeks after the first observation I went back to the place, took some additional pictures and samples and did some microscopy. I found several new fruit bodies (pictures added) as well as the old ones, which havent changed much in size and appearance. The new ones were on a different larger ~ 20 cm diameter log a few meters away of the first find on the same substratum. This time I found also two fully resupinated basidiocarps. - To my big surprise, I was unable to find a single spore this time! I scoped hypha of trama and tube layer and basidia. All following comparisons relate to information given in Ref.:(4). Trama hypha seems to be monomitic, a characteristics of H. croceus. I was unable to find any trace of trimitic hypha, which is characteristic to Coriolopsis trogii. Hypha is quite uniform, dense, thin-walled, rarely branched, which also corresponds to H. croceus. It has somewhat larger diameter (measured average value d=3.8, SD=0.5, n=30 and data of H.croceus = 3-6) than C. trogii (generative hypha d=2-3,5(4)). C. trogii has richly branched, thick-walled skeletal and binding hypha, which I was unable to find. Basidia dimensions (measured average l=25.8, SD=3.5 and d=6.4 SD=1.0, n=15) and lack of cystidia fit well to both species. Their shape is generally clavate (which fits to both species), but many are (double) flash shaped, which is not mentioned in the literature available to me. KOH 5% test on trama was again violent, dark red-black. Ref.:(4) states carmine red for H. croceus and unchangeable or only slightly darkening for C. trogii. H.croceus causes white root, which can be seen from one of the added pictures. I havent found this information for C. trogii. - On the other hand, both species should have hypha with clamps and also basidia should have basal clams. I haven't found clamps (poor microscopy?). - Re: substratum. Ref.:(4) and Ref.:(3) state Quercus sp./Castanea sp. for H. croceus and Populus sp./Salix sp. for C. trogii. In my observation it was almost certainly Ostrya carpinifolia, which seems to be closer to Quercus sp. from the stand point of wood properties (very heavy and hard, historically used to fashion plane soles). - I dont know how to interpret this data. What puzzle me are spores wrong dimensions in the first visit and apparent absence of hypha clamps. Could this observation be something third? - Ref.: (1) Personal communication, provisionally id'ed as Hapalopilus by Mr. Anton Poler. (2) Personal communication, provisionally ided as Trametes trogii by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC Tolmin. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 532 and 505. (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 256 and 190.

UPDATED INFORMATION: Antrodia malicola, syn. Coriolellus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1920), Daedalea malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Aoshima (1967), Trametes jamaicensis Murrill (1910), Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1856) Slo.: rjavkasta trhlica Date: Jan. 30. 2014 A piece of herbarium specimen has been sent to Mr. Gnter Sturm, Germany for evaluation. He has a very long 'mileage' with Polyporaceae. His habit and microscopic examination yields Antrodia malicola. This is a rather rare polypore (found in three MTB sub-squares in Slovenia) with clamped septs of the hypha and dimitic hypha system. He also found and examined a few spores. All characteristics meet the expectations for this species. He also mentions that, although Antrodia doesnt belong to the Hymenochaetaceae, A. malicola is an exception and reacts with KOH by blackening as it is demonstrated also on one of the pictures attached to the observation Antrodia malicola - I. In the Rhine-Main-Area of Germany, where he lives, they have about 20 finds of A. malicola up to now and he knows the taxon well. The main substrate is Fagus, but it was found also on Carpinus. The mushroom has a fine-aromatic smell, which I somehow overlooked. Gnter thank you for your interest and time. _______________________________ Former text: Slo.: afranasti (?) zlatoluknjiar - Coriolopsis trogii (Berk.) Dom., syn: Trametes trogii Berk or Hapalopilus croceus ? (Pers.) Donk, syn.: Aurantiporus croceus, Inonotus croceus, Phaeolus croceus, Tyromyces croceus - Causing 'white' root. Habitat: Former pasture, on top of a pile of firewood; flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: a cut down, dead, rotten but partly still in bark trunk of Ostrya carpinifolia (about 15 cm diameter) used as a weight and laying on a pile of firewood. - Comments: Two weeks after the first observation I went back to the place, took some additional pictures and samples and did some microscopy. I found several new fruit bodies (pictures added) as well as the old ones, which havent changed much in size and appearance. The new ones were on a different larger ~ 20 cm diameter log a few meters away of the first find on the same substratum. This time I found also two fully resupinated basidiocarps. - To my big surprise, I was unable to find a single spore this time! I scoped hypha of trama and tube layer and basidia. All following comparisons relate to information given in Ref.:(4). Trama hypha seems to be monomitic, a characteristics of H. croceus. I was unable to find any trace of trimitic hypha, which is characteristic to Coriolopsis trogii. Hypha is quite uniform, dense, thin-walled, rarely branched, which also corresponds to H. croceus. It has somewhat larger diameter (measured average value d=3.8, SD=0.5, n=30 and data of H.croceus = 3-6) than C. trogii (generative hypha d=2-3,5(4)). C. trogii has richly branched, thick-walled skeletal and binding hypha, which I was unable to find. Basidia dimensions (measured average l=25.8, SD=3.5 and d=6.4 SD=1.0, n=15) and lack of cystidia fit well to both species. Their shape is generally clavate (which fits to both species), but many are (double) flash shaped, which is not mentioned in the literature available to me. KOH 5% test on trama was again violent, dark red-black. Ref.:(4) states carmine red for H. croceus and unchangeable or only slightly darkening for C. trogii. H.croceus causes white root, which can be seen from one of the added pictures. I havent found this information for C. trogii. - On the other hand, both species should have hypha with clamps and also basidia should have basal clams. I haven't found clamps (poor microscopy?). - Re: substratum. Ref.:(4) and Ref.:(3) state Quercus sp./Castanea sp. for H. croceus and Populus sp./Salix sp. for C. trogii. In my observation it was almost certainly Ostrya carpinifolia, which seems to be closer to Quercus sp. from the stand point of wood properties (very heavy and hard, historically used to fashion plane soles). - I dont know how to interpret this data. What puzzle me are spores wrong dimensions in the first visit and apparent absence of hypha clamps. Could this observation be something third? - Ref.: (1) Personal communication, provisionally id'ed as Hapalopilus by Mr. Anton Poler. (2) Personal communication, provisionally ided as Trametes trogii by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC Tolmin. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 532 and 505. (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 256 and 190.

UPDATED INFORMATION: Antrodia malicola, syn. Coriolellus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1920), Daedalea malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Aoshima (1967), Trametes jamaicensis Murrill (1910), Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1856) Slo.: rjavkasta trhlica Date: Jan. 30. 2014 A piece of herbarium specimen has been sent to Mr. Gnter Sturm, Germany for evaluation. He has a very long 'mileage' with Polyporaceae. His habit and microscopic examination yields Antrodia malicola. This is a rather rare polypore (found in three MTB sub-squares in Slovenia) with clamped septs of the hypha and dimitic hypha system. He also found and examined a few spores. All characteristics meet the expectations for this species. He also mentions that, although Antrodia doesnt belong to the Hymenochaetaceae, A. malicola is an exception and reacts with KOH by blackening as it is demonstrated also on one of the pictures attached to the observation Antrodia malicola - I. In the Rhine-Main-Area of Germany, where he lives, they have about 20 finds of A. malicola up to now and he knows the taxon well. The main substrate is Fagus, but it was found also on Carpinus. The mushroom has a fine-aromatic smell, which I somehow overlooked. Gnter thank you for your interest and time. _______________________________ Former text: Slo.: afranasti (?) zlatoluknjiar - Coriolopsis trogii (Berk.) Dom., syn: Trametes trogii Berk or Hapalopilus croceus ? (Pers.) Donk, syn.: Aurantiporus croceus, Inonotus croceus, Phaeolus croceus, Tyromyces croceus - Habitat: Former pasture, on top of a pile of firewood; flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: a cut down, dead, rotten but partly still in bark trunk of Ostrya carpinifolia (about 15 cm diameter) used as a weight and laying on a pile of firewood. - Comments: Two weeks after the first observation I went back to the place, took some additional pictures and samples and did some microscopy. I found several new fruit bodies (pictures added) as well as the old ones, which havent changed much in size and appearance. The new ones were on a different larger ~ 20 cm diameter log a few meters away of the first find on the same substratum. This time I found also two fully resupinated basidiocarps. - To my big surprise, I was unable to find a single spore this time! I scoped hypha of trama and tube layer and basidia. All following comparisons relate to information given in Ref.:(4). Trama hypha seems to be monomitic, a characteristics of H. croceus. I was unable to find any trace of trimitic hypha, which is characteristic to Coriolopsis trogii. Hypha is quite uniform, dense, thin-walled, rarely branched, which also corresponds to H. croceus. It has somewhat larger diameter (measured average value d=3.8, SD=0.5, n=30 and data of H.croceus = 3-6) than C. trogii (generative hypha d=2-3,5(4)). C. trogii has richly branched, thick-walled skeletal and binding hypha, which I was unable to find. Basidia dimensions (measured average l=25.8, SD=3.5 and d=6.4 SD=1.0, n=15) and lack of cystidia fit well to both species. Their shape is generally clavate (which fits to both species), but many are (double) flash shaped, which is not mentioned in the literature available to me. KOH 5% test on trama was again violent, dark red-black. Ref.:(4) states carmine red for H. croceus and unchangeable or only slightly darkening for C. trogii. H.croceus causes white root, which can be seen from one of the added pictures. I havent found this information for C. trogii. - On the other hand, both species should have hypha with clamps and also basidia should have basal clams. I haven't found clamps (poor microscopy?). - Re: substratum. Ref.:(4) and Ref.:(3) state Quercus sp./Castanea sp. for H. croceus and Populus sp./Salix sp. for C. trogii. In my observation it was almost certainly Ostrya carpinifolia, which seems to be closer to Quercus sp. from the stand point of wood properties (very heavy and hard, historically used to fashion plane soles). - I dont know how to interpret this data. What puzzle me are spores wrong dimensions in the first visit and apparent absence of hypha clamps. Could this observation be something third? - Ref.: (1) Personal communication, provisionally id'ed as Hapalopilus by Mr. Anton Poler. (2) Personal communication, provisionally ided as Trametes trogii by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC Tolmin. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 532 and 505. (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 256 and 190.

UPDATED INFORMATION: Antrodia malicola, syn. Coriolellus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1920), Daedalea malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Aoshima (1967), Trametes jamaicensis Murrill (1910), Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1856) Slo.: rjavkasta trhlica Date: Jan. 30. 2014 A piece of herbarium specimen has been sent to Mr. Gnter Sturm, Germany for evaluation. He has a very long 'mileage' with Polyporaceae. His habit and microscopic examination yields Antrodia malicola. This is a rather rare polypore (found in three MTB sub-squares in Slovenia) with clamped septs of the hypha and dimitic hypha system. He also found and examined a few spores. All characteristics meet the expectations for this species. He also mentions that, although Antrodia doesnt belong to the Hymenochaetaceae, A. malicola is an exception and reacts with KOH by blackening as it is demonstrated also on one of the pictures attached to the observation Antrodia malicola - I. In the Rhine-Main-Area of Germany, where he lives, they have about 20 finds of A. malicola up to now and he knows the taxon well. The main substrate is Fagus, but it was found also on Carpinus. The mushroom has a fine-aromatic smell, which I somehow overlooked. Gnter thank you for your interest and time. _______________________________ Former text: Slo.: afranasti (?) zlatoluknjiar - Coriolopsis trogii (Berk.) Dom., syn: Trametes trogii Berk or Hapalopilus croceus ? (Pers.) Donk, syn.: Aurantiporus croceus, Inonotus croceus, Phaeolus croceus, Tyromyces croceus - Habitat: Former pasture, on top of a pile of firewood; flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: a cut down, dead, rotten but partly still in bark trunk of Ostrya carpinifolia (about 15 cm diameter) used as a weight and laying on a pile of firewood. - Comments: Two weeks after the first observation I went back to the place, took some additional pictures and samples and did some microscopy. I found several new fruit bodies (pictures added) as well as the old ones, which havent changed much in size and appearance. The new ones were on a different larger ~ 20 cm diameter log a few meters away of the first find on the same substratum. This time I found also two fully resupinated basidiocarps. - To my big surprise, I was unable to find a single spore this time! I scoped hypha of trama and tube layer and basidia. All following comparisons relate to information given in Ref.:(4). Trama hypha seems to be monomitic, a characteristics of H. croceus. I was unable to find any trace of trimitic hypha, which is characteristic to Coriolopsis trogii. Hypha is quite uniform, dense, thin-walled, rarely branched, which also corresponds to H. croceus. It has somewhat larger diameter (measured average value d=3.8, SD=0.5, n=30 and data of H.croceus = 3-6) than C. trogii (generative hypha d=2-3,5(4)). C. trogii has richly branched, thick-walled skeletal and binding hypha, which I was unable to find. Basidia dimensions (measured average l=25.8, SD=3.5 and d=6.4 SD=1.0, n=15) and lack of cystidia fit well to both species. Their shape is generally clavate (which fits to both species), but many are (double) flash shaped, which is not mentioned in the literature available to me. KOH 5% test on trama was again violent, dark red-black. Ref.:(4) states carmine red for H. croceus and unchangeable or only slightly darkening for C. trogii. H.croceus causes white root, which can be seen from one of the added pictures. I havent found this information for C. trogii. - On the other hand, both species should have hypha with clamps and also basidia should have basal clams. I haven't found clamps (poor microscopy?). - Re: substratum. Ref.:(4) and Ref.:(3) state Quercus sp./Castanea sp. for H. croceus and Populus sp./Salix sp. for C. trogii. In my observation it was almost certainly Ostrya carpinifolia, which seems to be closer to Quercus sp. from the stand point of wood properties (very heavy and hard, historically used to fashion plane soles). - I dont know how to interpret this data. What puzzle me are spores wrong dimensions in the first visit and apparent absence of hypha clamps. Could this observation be something third? - Ref.: (1) Personal communication, provisionally id'ed as Hapalopilus by Mr. Anton Poler. (2) Personal communication, provisionally ided as Trametes trogii by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC Tolmin. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 532 and 505. (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 256 and 190.

UPDATED INFORMATION: Antrodia malicola, syn. Coriolellus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1920), Daedalea malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Aoshima (1967), Trametes jamaicensis Murrill (1910), Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1856) Slo.: rjavkasta trhlica Date: Jan. 30. 2014 A piece of herbarium specimen has been sent to Mr. Gnter Sturm, Germany for evaluation. He has a very long 'mileage' with Polyporaceae. His habit and microscopic examination yields Antrodia malicola. This is a rather rare polypore (found in three MTB sub-squares in Slovenia) with clamped septs of the hypha and dimitic hypha system. He also found and examined a few spores. All characteristics meet the expectations for this species. He also mentions that, although Antrodia doesnt belong to the Hymenochaetaceae, A. malicola is an exception and reacts with KOH by blackening as it is demonstrated also on one of the pictures attached to the observation Antrodia malicola - I. In the Rhine-Main-Area of Germany, where he lives, they have about 20 finds of A. malicola up to now and he knows the taxon well. The main substrate is Fagus, but it was found also on Carpinus. The mushroom has a fine-aromatic smell, which I somehow overlooked. Gnter thank you for your interest and time. _______________________________ Former text: Slo.: afranasti (?) zlatoluknjiar - Coriolopsis trogii (Berk.) Dom., syn: Trametes trogii Berk or Hapalopilus croceus ? (Pers.) Donk, syn.: Aurantiporus croceus, Inonotus croceus, Phaeolus croceus, Tyromyces croceus - Habitat: Former pasture, on top of a pile of firewood; flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: a cut down, dead, rotten but partly still in bark trunk of Ostrya carpinifolia (about 15 cm diameter) used as a weight and laying on a pile of firewood. - Comments: Two weeks after the first observation I went back to the place, took some additional pictures and samples and did some microscopy. I found several new fruit bodies (pictures added) as well as the old ones, which havent changed much in size and appearance. The new ones were on a different larger ~ 20 cm diameter log a few meters away of the first find on the same substratum. This time I found also two fully resupinated basidiocarps. - To my big surprise, I was unable to find a single spore this time! I scoped hypha of trama and tube layer and basidia. All following comparisons relate to information given in Ref.:(4). Trama hypha seems to be monomitic, a characteristics of H. croceus. I was unable to find any trace of trimitic hypha, which is characteristic to Coriolopsis trogii. Hypha is quite uniform, dense, thin-walled, rarely branched, which also corresponds to H. croceus. It has somewhat larger diameter (measured average value d=3.8, SD=0.5, n=30 and data of H.croceus = 3-6) than C. trogii (generative hypha d=2-3,5(4)). C. trogii has richly branched, thick-walled skeletal and binding hypha, which I was unable to find. Basidia dimensions (measured average l=25.8, SD=3.5 and d=6.4 SD=1.0, n=15) and lack of cystidia fit well to both species. Their shape is generally clavate (which fits to both species), but many are (double) flash shaped, which is not mentioned in the literature available to me. KOH 5% test on trama was again violent, dark red-black. Ref.:(4) states carmine red for H. croceus and unchangeable or only slightly darkening for C. trogii. H.croceus causes white root, which can be seen from one of the added pictures. I havent found this information for C. trogii. - On the other hand, both species should have hypha with clamps and also basidia should have basal clams. I haven't found clamps (poor microscopy?). - Re: substratum. Ref.:(4) and Ref.:(3) state Quercus sp./Castanea sp. for H. croceus and Populus sp./Salix sp. for C. trogii. In my observation it was almost certainly Ostrya carpinifolia, which seems to be closer to Quercus sp. from the stand point of wood properties (very heavy and hard, historically used to fashion plane soles). - I dont know how to interpret this data. What puzzle me are spores wrong dimensions in the first visit and apparent absence of hypha clamps. Could this observation be something third? - Ref.: (1) Personal communication, provisionally id'ed as Hapalopilus by Mr. Anton Poler. (2) Personal communication, provisionally ided as Trametes trogii by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC Tolmin. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 532 and 505. (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 256 and 190.

UPDATED INFORMATION: Antrodia malicola, syn. Coriolellus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1920), Daedalea malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Aoshima (1967), Trametes jamaicensis Murrill (1910), Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1856) Slo.: rjavkasta trhlica Date: Jan. 30. 2014 A piece of herbarium specimen has been sent to Mr. Gnter Sturm, Germany for evaluation. He has a very long 'mileage' with Polyporaceae. His habit and microscopic examination yields Antrodia malicola. This is a rather rare polypore (found in three MTB sub-squares in Slovenia) with clamped septs of the hypha and dimitic hypha system. He also found and examined a few spores. All characteristics meet the expectations for this species. He also mentions that, although Antrodia doesnt belong to the Hymenochaetaceae, A. malicola is an exception and reacts with KOH by blackening as it is demonstrated also on one of the pictures attached to the observation Antrodia malicola - I. In the Rhine-Main-Area of Germany, where he lives, they have about 20 finds of A. malicola up to now and he knows the taxon well. The main substrate is Fagus, but it was found also on Carpinus. The mushroom has a fine-aromatic smell, which I somehow overlooked. Gnter thank you for your interest and time. _______________________________ Former text: Slo.: afranasti (?) zlatoluknjiar - Coriolopsis trogii (Berk.) Dom., syn: Trametes trogii Berk or Hapalopilus croceus ? (Pers.) Donk, syn.: Aurantiporus croceus, Inonotus croceus, Phaeolus croceus, Tyromyces croceus - Habitat: Former pasture, on top of a pile of firewood; flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: a cut down, dead, rotten but partly still in bark trunk of Ostrya carpinifolia (about 15 cm diameter) used as a weight and laying on a pile of firewood. - Comments: Ive browsed through a lot of literature without a really convincing determination of this observation. Basidiocarps habitus corresponds well to Hapalopilus crocerus, however measured spores do not fit. A potential candidate could also be a kind of Coriolopsis. Spores of C. gallica fit well to the measured ones, but color of basidiocarps doesnt at all. Color of the observation could eventually fit to C. trogii (Berk.) Dom. (syn: Trametes trogii) (considering young basidiocarps), but it has somewhat narrower spores and its substrate is usually Populus. sp. Ostrya carpinifolia is not cited as possible substrate in Ref.:(3). I was unable to find another so distinctly yellow-orange-ochre Polyporaceae with such spores. - Growing in a small group of about 5 basidiocarps, all effused-reflexed, up to about 10 cm wide, pilei up to 1 cm broad, pores 1-3 per mm, irregular, angular on horizontal surfaces; basidiocarps moist, rubbery-leathery, fresh, relatively soft; hard and firm when dry, all sporocarps were apparently young or very young; smell strong, mushroomy; trama brown-red (oac707), KOH 5% on flesh and pores very dark carmine red, almost black; SP whitish-beige (oac007), quite abundant for Polyporaceae. - Spores smooth. Dimensions: 9.7 (SD = 0.8) x 4.1 (SD = 0.3) , Q = 2.35 (SD = 0.2), n = 30. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. AmScope MA500 digital camera. - Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vena pot 2, Ljubljana - Ref.: (1) Personal communication, provisionally id'ed as Hapalopilus by Mr. Anton Poler. (2) Personal communication, provisionally ided as Trametes trogii by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC Tolmin. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 532 and 505. (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 256 and 190. Spores of Hapalopilus croceus 4-6.5/3-4.5 and of Coriolopsis trogii 7-11/2.5-4 (5) Jlich (cited by Ref.:1). Spores of Hapalopilus criceus 3-7/3-4,5

UPDATED INFORMATION: Antrodia malicola, syn. Coriolellus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1920), Daedalea malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Aoshima (1967), Trametes jamaicensis Murrill (1910), Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A. Curtis (1856) Slo.: rjavkasta trhlica Date: Jan. 30. 2014 A piece of herbarium specimen has been sent to Mr. Gnter Sturm, Germany for evaluation. He has a very long 'mileage' with Polyporaceae. His habit and microscopic examination yields Antrodia malicola. This is a rather rare polypore (found in three MTB sub-squares in Slovenia) with clamped septs of the hypha and dimitic hypha system. He also found and examined a few spores. All characteristics meet the expectations for this species. He also mentions that, although Antrodia doesnt belong to the Hymenochaetaceae, A. malicola is an exception and reacts with KOH by blackening as it is demonstrated also on one of the pictures attached to the observation Antrodia malicola - I. In the Rhine-Main-Area of Germany, where he lives, they have about 20 finds of A. malicola up to now and he knows the taxon well. The main substrate is Fagus, but it was found also on Carpinus. The mushroom has a fine-aromatic smell, which I somehow overlooked. Gnter thank you for your interest and time. _______________________________ Former text: Slo.: afranasti (?) zlatoluknjiar - Coriolopsis trogii (Berk.) Dom., syn: Trametes trogii Berk or Hapalopilus croceus ? (Pers.) Donk, syn.: Aurantiporus croceus, Inonotus croceus, Phaeolus croceus, Tyromyces croceus - Habitat: Former pasture, on top of a pile of firewood; flat terrain, calcareous ground, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 400 m (1.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: a cut down, dead, rotten but partly still in bark trunk of Ostrya carpinifolia (about 15 cm diameter) used as a weight and laying on a pile of firewood. - Comments: Ive browsed through a lot of literature without a really convincing determination of this observation. Basidiocarps habitus corresponds well to Hapalopilus crocerus, however measured spores do not fit. A potential candidate could also be a kind of Coriolopsis. Spores of C. gallica fit well to the measured ones, but color of basidiocarps doesnt at all. Color of the observation could eventually fit to C. trogii (Berk.) Dom. (syn: Trametes trogii) (considering young basidiocarps), but it has somewhat narrower spores and its substrate is usually Populus. sp. Ostrya carpinifolia is not cited as possible substrate in Ref.:(3). I was unable to find another so distinctly yellow-orange-ochre Polyporaceae with such spores. - Growing in a small group of about 5 basidiocarps, all effused-reflexed, up to about 10 cm wide, pilei up to 1 cm broad, pores 1-3 per mm, irregular, angular on horizontal surfaces; basidiocarps moist, rubbery-leathery, fresh, relatively soft; hard and firm when dry, all sporocarps were apparently young or very young; smell strong, mushroomy; trama brown-red (oac707), KOH 5% on flesh and pores very dark carmine red, almost black; SP whitish-beige (oac007), quite abundant for Polyporaceae. - Spores smooth. Dimensions: 9.7 (SD = 0.8) x 4.1 (SD = 0.3) , Q = 2.35 (SD = 0.2), n = 30. Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil, in water. AmScope MA500 digital camera. - Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vena pot 2, Ljubljana - Ref.: (1) Personal communication, provisionally id'ed as Hapalopilus by Mr. Anton Poler. (2) Personal communication, provisionally ided as Trametes trogii by Mr. Gregor Podgornik, NAC Tolmin. (3) G.J.Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Bade-Wrttembergs, Band 1, Ulmer (2000), p 532 and 505. (4) A.Bernicchia, Polyporaceae s.l., Fungi Europaei, Vol. 10., Edizioni Candusso (2005), p 256 and 190. Spores of Hapalopilus croceus 4-6.5/3-4.5 and of Coriolopsis trogii 7-11/2.5-4 (5) Jlich (cited by Ref.:1). Spores of Hapalopilus criceus 3-7/3-4,5