Orange-colored, inverted cup. Similar to 'orange-peel' fungus. Moist, rotting log in South Nandi Forest. |
Polypores form shelf-like fruiting bodies on the logs or dead standing trees where the fungus is decomposing the wood inside. |
Gray-green lichen with leaf-like form and growing upon twigs of living trees in partial shade. |
Saucer-shaped structures on foliose lichen are the fruiting bodies. On twigs of scrubland trees. |
Gray-green lichen with finger-like lamellae epiphytic upon twigs of living trees in partial shade. |
Another gray-green lichen with finger-like lamellae epiphytic upon twigs of living trees in partial shade. |
Slender lichen tassels affixed to tree branches. Silvery green color. |
These are the fruiting bodies or apothecia of an epiphytic lichen. |
Growing epiphytically on branches of semi-deciduous scrub habitat tree. |
A purple-black lichenized fungi growing on a mossy boulder at 2400 m elevation. |
This wild mushrooms was found in savannna grassland. Remnants of the veil form a ring on the stalk. |
Many species of wild mushrooms. No information on toxicity. |
Even as this dead, fallen branch supports a dense garden of Bryophytes, fungi are converting what's left of the wood. |
Pinkish cap is tilted to one side and the gills are deeply folded. |
Oblong or spherical mushroom with no exposed gills. Bright white surface with slight undulations. |
Inky-black spores released from swollen growths emerging from flowering spikes. A Basidiomycete plant pathogen. |
Fungus appears like a dusting of white powder on leaves of Senna occidentalis. Many other types on other plants. |
Pathogenic fungus on cultivated maize. Grey splotches in larger areas of brown, necrotic leaf. |
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Michael J. Plagens, page created 26 March 2014,
updated 25 Oct. 2017.
By no means am I an expert on the Natural History of Kenya. I am new to exploring this part of the World. By creating a page for the species as I learn about them I am teaching myself. If I make errors I expect that a kind person will let me know so that I can make corrections.