Chemical Reactions:
KOH negative, solution leaching to yellow-orange, FeCl3 green, (Methven)

Odor:
not distinctive (Methven)

Taste:
mild or bitter (Arora), not distinctive or slightly sweet, (Methven), slightly bitter (Miller)

Microscopic:
spores 8-18 x 3-6 microns, elongated-elliptic, smooth, (Arora), spores 12-16.5 x 3.5-4.5 microns, "narrowly ellipsoid, boletoid or sway-backed in profile", smooth, thin-walled, inamyloid, colorless to pale yellow in KOH, contents "multiguttulate and refringent to aguttulate and amorphous"; basidia 48-85 x 8-11 microns, clavate, inflated apically when mature, with uninflated clamp connections; leptocystidia scattered and scarcely projecting, 40-75 x 2.5-5 microns, "cylindric to narrowly clavate, at times apically or subapically branched", contents amorphous, colorless to pale yellow in KOH, walls thin and smooth, clamp connections uninflated; hymenium thickening, extending over top of fruitbody; tramal hyphae 4-8 microns wide, interwoven, uninflated, inflated (- 12 microns), or broadly undulate, contents amorphous, colorless to pale yellow in KOH, walls thin or irregularly thickened up to 1 micron when mature, branched, clamp connections uninflated or inflated (- 12 microns), sometimes medallion or ampulliform; gloeoplerous hyphae 2.5-5 microns wide, arising from generative hyphae at clamp connections, uninflated, inflated (- 8 microns), or strangulated, contents subopalescent, pale yellow in KOH, branched, walls thin and smooth, clamp connections uninflated or inflated (- 10.5 microns), sometimes medallion or ampulliform, (Methven)

Spore Deposit:
white to pale yellowish (Arora, but Methven specifically says not white), "light buff", "cartridge buff", "pale ochraceous buff", or "pale ochraceous salmon", (Methven), white (Miller)

EDIBILITY

worthless, (Arora)

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Clavaria ligula Schaeff.
Oligoporus floriformis (Quel.) Gilb. & Ryvarden
Polyporus floriformis Quel.