Summary:
Features include pale apricot to pinkish yellow or pinkish buff fruiting bodies, single to several on branching stem, growing on ground, with weakly amyloid spores and clamp connections. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1) except where noted. Ginns(1) says that "Although 10 collections of Albatrellus flettii were seen from Washington, no confirmed specimens of Albatrellus confluens are known from the state, although it is reported by Gilbertson and Ryvarden (1986). Perhaps in western North America, Albatrellus flettii is more common than Albatrellus confluens, or perhaps in this area there is only one species, which differs from Albatrellus confluens elsewhere in having the pileus when young with blue tints, and when old, either lacking the blue or mottled with blue. The rare morphological differences in basidiomes indicate that these are sister species and may be subspecies.". One implication is that at least some reports of A. confluens in western North America may have been based on faded fruitbodies of A. flettii. Audet(1) supported the use of the name Albatrellopsis confluens (Alb. & Schwein.) Teixeira, Boletim do Instituto de Botanica, Sao Paulo 8: 21 (1993). The online Species Fungorum, accessed February 3, 2019, maintained the Albatrellus confluens name as current, despite accepting the Albatrellopsis name for the similar (and according to Audet(1) closely related) Albatrellus flettii.

Odor:
pleasant, often aromatic (Gilbertson), pleasant, even fragrant, (Miller)

Taste:
cabbage-like (Gilbertson), bitter (Arora), mild (Miller)

Microscopic:
spores 4-5 x 2.5-3.5 microns, oval to elliptic, smooth, weakly amyloid, colorless, with slightly thickened walls; basidia 4-spored, 20-25 x 6-7.5 microns, clavate, often bent sharply at base, with basal clamp connection; cystidia absent; hyphae monomitic, hyphae of context highly irregular and variable in diameter, 4-50 microns wide, colorless in KOH, thin-walled, with frequent branching, with simple septa and also frequent conspicuous clamp connections, hyphae of trama 3-5 microns, thin-walled with clamp connections, arranged parallel and turning sharply at apex to give rise to basidia, gloeoplerous hyphae also present, 4-18 microns wide, appearing refractive in Melzer''s reagent, contorted with bulbous swellings

Spore Deposit:
white (Miller)

Notes:
The distribution includes BC, WA, OR, ID, also PQ, AL, AZ, CA, CO, KY, MA, ME, MT, NC, NJ, NM, NY, SC, TN, UT, VT, WV, circumglobal, (Gilbertson), Europe, Asia, (Breitenbach)

EDIBILITY

yes (Gilbertson)

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Arcangeliella camphorata (Singer & A.H. Sm.) Pegler & T.W.K.
Gastrolactarius camphoratus (Singer & A.H. Sm.) J.M. Vidal