Peniophora albobadia.
Fungi > Division Basidiomycota > Class Agaricomycetes > Order Russulales > Family Peniophoraceae.
There are 62 Peniophora species.
Synonyms for Giraffe Spots are Stereum albobadium and Thelephora albobadia.
They are a perennial crust type wood rot fungus.
Individual fruiting bodies are small but they coalesce into irregular shapes.
There are sometimes small caps on the edges.
Young circular bodies have a brown centre that fades over time.
The white border consists of radiating hyphae.
The brown centre is the fertile area but it has no pores.
The spore forming basidia cells are mixed with hyphae in the hymenium.
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