26/Oct/24, 2:54 PM
Laiaküla raba, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Mixed forest. On pine wood dead trunk
59°28'00.8"N 24°53'20.7"E
🔆 Full overcast, open spot
Original Instagram postFuscopostia lateritia
brick red postia
- Scientific identification
- Fuscopostia lateritia (Renvall) B.K.Cui, L.L.Shen & Y.C.Dai
- Family
- Fomitopsidaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Fuscopostia
Names across languages
- English: brick red postia
- German: Ziegelroter Feuerschwamm
- Finnish: Hentokääpä
- Estonian: Pruunjas tümak
- Russian: Фускопостия кирпично-красная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-10-26.
Hymenium
Pores, cream to pale brown, pores circular to angular, densely packed
Cap
Semicircular to fan-shaped, rough and velvety when young, becoming smoother with age, light brown to reddish-brown, darker toward the center, with a margin that becomes paler with age
Hymenium Attachment
(Pores cover the underside directly)
Stipe
Absent
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic, found on dead conifer wood, decomposing fallen logs, and stumps, visible year-round, prominent in late autumn
Edibility
Inedible, due to woody texture
Fruit body
Fruit body medium-sized, sessile, up to 10 cm wide, with a thickness of 1–3 cm
Dimensions
Cap 5–15 cm in diameter, often layered when older
Chemical reactions
Cottony and soft when dry, not fragile
Odour
Odour mild, earthy
Microscopy
Spores smooth, elliptical, hyaline, 4–5 x 1.5–2 µm, non-amyloid
Overview
Common wood-decay fungus on dead conifer wood with a characteristic reddish-brown, fan-shaped cap
2018). In Shen, Wang, Zhou, Xing, Cui & Dai, Persoonia 42: 119 (’2019′).
Field encounters
Source hashtags
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