Identificaciones de knotwood

Loop Road, Big Cypress National Preserve

Observed during the 2023 South Florida City Nature Challenge (CNCSOFLO)

Project page: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-south-florida-cncsoflo/
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New to science species not named yet. David Lewis said it was genus Piptoporus. iNat says that genus is now Fomitopsis. Field trip hosted by mycologists David Lewis and Clark Ovrebo at David’s property near Bleakwood

This is the fruiting body of a mushroom. The round, circular cap is light brown in color on the top and the underside was a darker shade of brown. The stem of the mushroom was skinny and striated. The spacing of the gills of the mushroom was not very wide but they were deep. There were a few of these mushrooms together on a lawn in a park environment and they were all quite small. I am not certain which specific kind of mushroom this is, but it is a mushroom.

Reference: http://arborist.forest.usf.edu/floridafungi