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Species Information
Summary: Features include 1) resupinate growth on conifer wood, 2) a fruitbody surface that is ochraceous-buff and granular, 3) spores measuring 4-6 x 3-4 microns, that are amyloid and subtly ornamented with small warts and ridges, 4) granular gloeocystidia, and 5) strongly dextrinoid dichophyses.
It has been found in BC, WA, OR, ID, AB, ON, AZ, CO, MI, MN, MT, NH, NM, and SD, (Ginns).
Fruiting body: resupinate; surface ochraceous-buff and granular; creamy ocher in the herbarium; "with a slightly tuberculate or irregularly warty hymenial surface", (Castellano)
Microscopic: SPORES 4-6 x 3-4 microns, elliptic, "subtly ornamented with small warts and ridges", amyloid; GLOEOCYSTIDIA present, filled with granular material; dichophyses abundant, up to 5 microns wide, strongly dextrinoid, (Castellano)
Habitat / Range
on conifer logs, associated with a white rot, (Ginns), saprophytic on dead conifer wood; fruits May, July, October, (Castellano)
Similar Species
Dichostereum pallescens "has more highly ornamented, larger spores (6-7.5 x 5.5-6.5 microns), narrow dichophyses (up to 2 microns in diam), and lacks gloeocystidia", (Castellano). Dichostereum effuscatum has larger spores (6-8 x 5.5-7 microns), and smaller dichophyses, (Castellano).
