File:A fungus - Peroneutypa scoparia - geograph.org.uk - 1701495.jpg

English: A fungus - Peroneutypa scoparia. Only a short distance east from the point from which the photograph 1479062 was taken, a piece of fallen wood bore the unusual fungus shown here. The photograph shows one end of the piece of wood, which was 6cm thick, and about 30cm long; it is just one remaining fragment of a much larger piece, on which I first photographed the fungus in February of 2008. The fungus is now darkened with age, but it was originally a fairly dark brown, rather than black. Each of the small individual structures consists of several finger-like projections extending from an irregular but more or less rounded base. See http://www.fungipedia.es/clasificacion-orden/ascomycota/76-sphaeriales/150-peroneutypa-heteracantha.html for a discussion in Spanish that provides further details; note a button at the top giving access to a machine translation (slightly quirky in places) into English. As with the link just cited, several synonyms of the species name may be encountered; see http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=500713 for a list.