Summary:
Features include 1) medium or large size, 2) branches that are cream to yellow with yellow tips, 3) single whitish stem with reddish to violet stains mostly at the stem base but not caused by handling or bruising, 4) fruiting in spring or fall, 5) narrowly elliptic spores mostly with discrete warts but sometimes longitudinal ridges, and 6) clamp connections.

Chemical Reactions:
stem flesh inamyloid (Marr), ferric sulphate in water green reaction, probably with branch sections, (Petersen), stem flesh negative with ferric sulphate in water (Exeter)

Odor:
"fresh, mildly spicy or fragrant, perhaps of tobacco", (Petersen), musty-sweet (Marr)

Taste:
negligible (Petersen)

Microscopic:
spores 11.2-14.0 x 4.3-5.0 microns, average 12.51 x 4.53 microns, (longer spores in some collections up to 18 microns long), narrowly elliptic, often with suprahilar depression, obscurely roughened in profile, ornamentation in many spores small discrete warts but many show very slender ridges generally longitudinally oriented, (ornamentation difficult to discern, even with aniline blue stain), several droplets that are obscure and subrefringent, wall up to 0.3 microns thick, hilar appendix gradual; basidia 4-spored, 50-65 x 7-8 microns, clavate, clamped, contents densely multiguttulate at maturity; hyphae of stem trama and of branch trama usually but not invariably clamped, (Petersen), spores 9-13.5 x 3.5-5 microns, average 12 x 4.1 microns, in a single specimen a few spores smooth, but mostly finely ornamented with irregularly shaped, cyanophilous warts; hyphae clamped, (Marr)

Spore Deposit:
golden yellow'' (Marr, color from Kornerup(2))

Notes:
It has been found in WA, ID, (Petersen). There is a collection from BC at the Pacific Forestry Centre. There are collections from OR at Oregon State University.

EDIBILITY

commonly eaten (Petersen)

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Corticium deflectens (P. Karst.) P. Karst.
Grandinia deflectens P. Karst.