Scutiger confluens    (Alb. & Schwein.) Bondartsev & Singer 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Russulales/Albatrellaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae/Polyporales/Bjerkanderaceae  

synonyms: Albatrellus confluens, Polyporus confluens, Irpex confluens 

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with  Scutiger confluens toxicity of Scutiger confluens genus Scutiger  

The cap is tawny-red to orange brown, fleshy, bumpy, often developed on only one side of the stem, spoon-shaped, often imbricate-fused with its neighbours to form a compact mass. The cap surface is smooth and matt, then split or scaly. The cap margin is smooth, thin, inrolled and wavy.

The stem is white, flushed with red from the base up, central of lateral, thick and hard, often fused with its neighbours into a single stem.

The flesh is white to cream, becoming reddish or saffron when drying; its taste is slightly bitter (especially under cap surface and with age); the odour is faint, pleasant;

The tubes are white then pinky cream, short (2 to 3mm) and decurrent.

The pores are white, small and almost (3 per mm), becoming pinky-cream with age. The spore print is white.

It grows in coniferous forests, in the mountains, with spruce, pines.

The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 1 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 8 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 25 mm (between 20 and 30 mm)

Distinctive features : reddish buff caps, often merged and with their stem fused into a common base; short tubes; decurrent and thin white pores; white flesh, slightly bitter; with conifers in the mountains

Scutiger confluens is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .



page updated on 14/01/18