Skeletocutis subincarnata (Peck) Jean Keller
no common name
Incrustoporiaceae

Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.

Introduction to the Macrofungi

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Distribution of Skeletocutis subincarnata
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Species Information

Summary:
Features include an annual cream to pinkish pore surface, a floccose to fimbriate white margin, and microscopic characters including small allantoid spores and incrusted hyphae projecting from the dissepiment edges. The description is derived from Gilbertson(1).
Microscopic:
spores 4-6.5 x 1-1.5 microns, allantoid [curved sausage-shaped], smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 12-15 x 4-5.5 microns, clavate, with basal clamp; cystidia none, cystidioles 9.5-16 x 3-5.5 microns, fusoid, with basal clamp, hyphal pegs conspicuous; hyphae dimitic, skeletal hyphae of subiculum 2-4 microns wide, colorless, thick-walled, nonseptate, rarely branched, generative hyphae of subiculum 2-3 microns wide, "thin-walled, nodose-septate, with occasional branching"; hyphae of trama "similar, heavily incrusted at the dissepiment edges"
Notes:
Skeletocutis subincarnata is widespread in the southern part of BC (Ginns(28)). It has been found in ID, AB, NF, AK, AZ, CA, ME, MN, MT, NY, and TX, (Gilbertson).

Habitat and Range

SIMILAR SPECIES
Skeletocutis stellae has a perennial fruiting body and slightly narrower spores. See also SIMILAR section of Skeletocutis albocremea.
Habitat
annual, on dead wood of conifers, especially Picea (spruce) and Pinus (pine), rarely on hardwoods, associated with a white rot