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Peniophora aurantiaca - Grünerlen-Zystidenrindenpilz

No. 81 - A find in the Austrian Alps and alpine Montan
common Article missing otherwise. This showy, orange-red bark fungus likes to grow extended for up to 1 m, on dead branches of green alder and can whole, dead trees that cover, then look as if they were painted with anti-rust paint. Dry, the FK rather smooth, with moisture, they swell up and get an irregular, warty-blow-celled surface, which then can be up to 2 mm thick.
The consistency is in this state, waxy-elastic. Augrund its strict commitment to the green alder (Alnus viridis), it is only in the Alps and in the Black Forest (see Krieglsteiner 1990 and Ostrow & Dämmrich 2010). A microscopic inspection is necessary, however, as there are several types of orange Zystidenrindenpilze. Typical of aurantiaca are the large, elliptical, up to 18μ long spurs and buckles on the septa. As he has written all Zystidenrindenpilze strongly encrusted Lamprozystiden and Gloeozystiden.
As a doppelganger P. erikksonii, which also grows on alder (although black and speckled alder) and is not bound to montane situations. The kind that has no buckles, comes in many states, though scattered in front. More frequent and widespread in Germany, in contrast, hornbeam Zystidenrindenpilz, who likes to develop under bark out. Its surface can get even when wet peg-like outgrowths. The spores, however, are much smaller. Similarly, the frequent P. incarnata, which forms much fleshier FK thin and can occur in all kinds of wood.
Illustrations Fruiting bodies were photographed in September 2010 near the Hutla-Alpe in the Great valley.