Summary:
Trametes pubescens forms a uniformly white to cream or buff bracket or shelf that is tomentose (coarsely hairy to finely tomentose) and nonzoned or with almost unicolorous zones, cream to buff pores that become yellowish or grayish when old, growing on hardwoods.

Microscopic:
spores 5-7 x 1.5-2 microns, cylindric, slightly curved, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 14-18 x 4.5-6 microns, clavate, with basal clamp; cystidia absent, hyphal pegs usually present; hyphae trimitic, generative hyphae of context 2-3 microns wide, "thin-walled, rarely branched, with clamps", skeletal hyphae of context 5-10 microns wide, "thick-walled, with occasional branching, nonseptate", binding hyphae of context 1.5-3 microns wide, "thick-walled, nonseptate, much branched"; hyphae of trama similar, (Gilbertson), spores 5-6 x 1.7-2.5 microns, cylindric to slightly allantoid, smooth, inamyloid, colorless, (Breitenbach)

Spore Deposit:
white (Buczacki)

Notes:
Trametes pubescens has been found in BC, WA, OR, ID, also AB, MB, NT, NB, NF, NS, ON, PQ, SK, YT, AK, AL, CA, CT, IA, IN, KS, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, PA, SD, TN, VT, WI, WV, and WY, (Gilbertson). It also occurs in Europe, Asia, and Australia, (Breitenbach)

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Polyporus pubescens Schumach.: Fr.