NC, Smokies, 20071118
CabinCove, fungi and lichens.

Fungi

Steccherinum ochraceum [] [voucher]

Over by that spring the path at the foot of the hill crosses on the way to Mary Wanda.
GEN spreading tooth fungus, on rotting hardwood? log
CAP none
FLESH v thin (less than 1mm)
GILL teeth, ochre, 1-2mm long, 1-3 per mm, white cottony sterile growing margin

Hymenochaete rubiginosa [] [voucher]

Maybe 1/4 way up TT.
GEN parchment fungus, on underside oak limb
CAP up to 5-6mm, min hairy, brown, zoned
FLESH v thin (less than 1mm)
PORE smooth, rich brown to reddish-brown, dry, bumpy

Panellus stipticus [] [voucher]

Maybe 40% way up TT, on fallen oak limb by the big fallen black oak.
GEN small shelf mushroom, on oak limb, taste mild (maybe a faint hint of acrid)
ST off-center, gen stubby but to 8mm long, to ~5mm wide, a bit hairier and whiter than cap, solid white flesh
CAP 10-20mm wide, semicirc, pale buff, d shaggy short scurfy
FLESH white, v thin (much less than 1mm)
GILL fine, rel close, shallow, occ br, shallow cross walls, pale cin brown
SPORE print pure white

Chlorociboria aeruginascens []

Over by the ochre spreading tooth. Just wanted a photo.

weird orange stuff

Lichens

These were all on that poplar I cut up yesterday, the one from Mary Wanda.

Menegazzia terebrata [] [voucher]

GEN foliose lichen, on poplar bark, in bright open young woods
THAL lobes ~1.0mm wide, rounded, hollow, dors comp, lt green to pale whitish, convex, appress, black below, holes scattered over center of top of lobes, bottom black and wrinkled, no rhiz?, soredia powdery in round raised soralia in center of top of lobes usually near tips
MED white
APO none