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Ascomycetes
(True morels, false morels, cup fungi,
earth tongues)
Earth Tongues and other
Ascomycetes
| Is the fruiting body with a stalk and head? ....................
............ ......................
Yes |
Is the fruiting body without a stalk? .........
.............................. ..................
Yes |
Is it parasitic on Russula and Lactarius, forming a
club-shaped mass?
Yes |
| Is the cup on a thin stalk; very small?
Yes |
Is the head variously shaped, but not cup-shaped?
Yes |
| Is the fruiting body flattened at top; yellow overall?
Yes |
If it is not flattened, is it another color other than
yellow?
Yes |
|
You have a Sclrotinia
tuberosa |
|
You have a Mitrula
irregularius |
| Is the head spatulate; stalk enlarged toward base?
Yes |
Is the head round, depressed or cylindric, sometimes
branched?
Yes |
|
You have a Spathularia
clavata |
| Is the head oval, wrinkled, yellow-green; stalk
greenish and viscid?
Yes |
The head is not a described on the left; not green? .........................
...........................
Yes |
| Is the fruiting body branched?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body not branched?
Yes |
| Does it grow on wood; black, irregular finger-like
clubs?
Yes |
Does it grow on the ground; not finger-like?
Yes |
|
You have a Xylosphaera
polymorpha |
| Is it in several fused columns, erect?
Yes |
Is it in spreading ear-like branched from a common
stalk?
Yes |
|
You have an Underwoodia
columnarius |
|
You have a Wynnea americana |
| Does it grow on sticks in mountain streams; small head;
brown stalk?
Yes |
Does it grow as small reddish clubs on insects?
Yes |
|
You have a Vibrissia
truncorum |
|
You have a Cordyceps
militaris |
| Does it form a hard, spindle-shaped black growth around
branches of cherry trees?
Yes |
It is not as described on the left and does not grow on
cherry trees? ................................
Yes |
|
You have an Apiosporina
morbosa |
| Is it hard; dingy maroon to black; rounded growth on
hardwood; concentric rings when cut in two?
Yes |
Is it brittle on the ground or tough and jelly-like on
buried wood? ......................
Yes |
|
You have a Daldina
concentrica |
| Is it flat, blackish-brown, a crust-like growth on
needles and duff?
Yes |
Is it cup-shaped, black, tough, jelly-like; on buried
wood on the ground?
Yes |
|
You have a Rhizinia undulata |
|
You have a Sarcosoma globosa |
| Is it orange?
Yes |
Is it green?
Yes |
|
You have a Hypomyces
lactifluorum |
|
You have a Hypomyces
luteovirens |
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