Polypore on dead branches of Olive trees

**Steve_mt** · 21. November 2021

Is it Coriolopsis gallica please? I have a sample at home. The hispid upper surface, habitat and colours of the Hymenium suggest this species.

**lamproderma** · 21. November 2021

Hallo Steve,

can you cut through the fruiting body so that you can see the trama. Coriolopsis (Funalia) gallica must have an brown trama.

Best wishes Ulla

**Steve_mt** · 21. November 2021

I do that tomorrow

**Beorn** · 23. November 2021

Hello!

And, did you cut it?
According to the quite dark hair, i would think the context should be also dark brown.

"Coriolopsis" gallica might be also a species complex - but that's the thing for quite a lot of mushrooms.

Lg; pablo.

**Steve_mt** · 23. November 2021

Yes, I did. I saw a tobacco brown trama which with 4% KOH it becomes wine-red, darkening to blackish-purple. I tried to mount the trauma and tubes and I am sure that there are two types of hyphae and maybe three (trimitic) if the basidiole baring hyphae are considered different from the generative. The hairs are two types, brown and dull brown (almost black). The hymenium have a lilac tinge at the border.

**Beorn** · 24. November 2021

Hello, Steve!

Yes, that's Coriolopsis (Trametes, Funalia, etc...) gallica.

Like many trametoid funghi, it is considered to be trimitic. Besides the generative Hyphae (mostly thin-walled, septate with clamps, in Your preparations plasma bright pink in Phloxin) there are skeletal hyphae: The long and unseptate, thick walled and broad Hyphae which are unbranched, and the binding hyphae, which are the thin but thickwalled ones, also without septations but much branchings.

Lg; Pablo.

**Steve_mt** · 25. November 2021

Dear Pablo,

Thank you for your reply and teaching. I could clearly make up two types of hyphae and maybe the third one, the binding hyphae (not sure) as shown in the new image here (Sorry for the crap ones before, I was super tired!)

Thanks a lot for yr help

LG

Stephen

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