Taxonomy
Lentinus connatus
Red List Status -
Description
Pileus: infundibuliform cyathiform: 20 – 150 mm; radially finely fibrillose, glabrous towards margin; dry; white to cream to ochraceous; margin acute.
Stipe: cylindric, flexuous; 20 – 150× 3 – 15 mm; floccose, pubescent; pale greyish to whitish.
Gills: deeply decurrent; crowded; very narrow; white becoming fawn; edge denticulate; with lamellulae in one series.
Flesh: thin, tough.
Spore print: white to cream.
Spores: cylindric; 6 – 8 × 2.5 – 3.5μm.
Notes: this deeply infundibuliform and often very tall fungus grows on dry logs.
Patrick Leonard 2019