Steccherinum ochraceum
Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 1: 651. 1821.
Common Name: none
For descriptionss see Bernicchia & Gorjón & 'California Mushrooms'.
On dead hardwood logs, occasionally conifers (Douglas fir); uncommon, fruiting from fall through mid-winter in coastal forests.
Unknown.
Steccherinum ochraceum can be distinguished by resupinate fruitbodies with a toothed, cream to salmon spore surface, dimitic tissues, and distinctive crystalincrusted skeletocystidia. Occasionally the margins are reflexed, forming narrow caps with a fuzzy, zonate, upper surface suggestive of Trametes species. Steccherinum fimbriatum differs in grayish pink to vinaceous buff spines. Sistotrema muscicola lacks skeletocystidia and has monomitic tissues and spines that are often fused into labyrinthine ridges.
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