Veluticeps fimbriata
Mycologia 82(5): 634. 1990.
Common Name: none
Synonyms: Hymenochaete fimbriata Ellis et Everh.; Hymenochaete rugispora Ellis et Everh.; Stereum rugisporum (Ellis & Everh.) Burt;
Misapplied name: Columnocystis abietina (Pers. ex Fr.) Pouz.
For descriptions see Nakasone & 'California Mushrooms'.
On decorticated conifer logs in montane pine-fir forests; common, fruiting from spring through fall in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges, rarely along the north coast.
Inedible, tough.
Veluticeps fimbriata can be recognized by a smooth or lumpy, minutely velvety, brown to dark brown fertile surface and growth on barkless conifer logs. They may be resupinate and crust-like but more commonly have a reflexed margin, forming an elongated, shelf-like cap. Although once considered related to Stereum (Russulales) and Hymenochaete (Hymenochaetales), molecular data indicate that it belongs in order Gloeophyllales with gilled fungi like Neolentinus and the polypore Gloeophyllum.
Burt, E.A. (1920). The Thelephoraceae of North America. XII. Stereum. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 7: 81-248.
Desjardin, D.E., Wood, M.G. & Stevens, F.A. (2015). California Mushrooms: The Comprehensive Identification Guide. Timber Press: Portland, OR. 560 p.
Ellis, J.B. & Everhhart B.M. (1885) New Fungi. Journal of Mycology 1(12): 148-154. (Protologue)
Gilbertson, R.L. (1974). Fungi That Decay Ponderosa Pine. University of Arizona Press: Tuscon, AZ. 197 p.
Nakasone, K.K. (1990). Taxonomic Study of Veluticeps (Aphyllophorales). Mycologia 82(5): 622-641. (PDF)
Overholts, L.O. (1929). Mycological Notes for 1926-27. Mycologia 21(5): 274-287.
