Hypomyces aurantius
This fungus consists of orange, pear shaped fruit bodies, each up to 0.3mm in diameter. A yellowish cobwebby subiculum of hyphae expands across the surface of the host to support the orange fruit bodies.
Grows densely clustered on the fungal fruit bodies of rotting polypores (bracket fungi).
Graham Calow
Burbage Wood
21 February 2017
growing on old polypore fungus
Peter Thompson
Lucas' Marsh
17 July 2013
Graham Calow
Burbage Wood
21 February 2017
growing on old polypore fungus
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Species profile
- Common names
- Orange Polypore Mould
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Hypocreales
- Family:
- Hypocreaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 17/07/2013 (Thompson, Peter)
- Last record:
- 21/02/2017 (Calow, Graham)
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