🇬🇧 bear lentinus - 🇩🇪 Geschichteter Zähling - 🇪🇪 Karulentinell - 🇷🇺 Пилолистничек медвежий 9/13/25
🆔 Lentinellus ursinus (Fr.) Kühner
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills radiating from point of attachment, close to nearly crowded, gill edges coarsely serrated or saw-toothed, often irregular and torn
ℹ️ Cap: Semi-circular to kidney-shaped, surface tomentose or velvety (especially toward center), darker brown at center fading toward margin, margin rolled under or lobed
❌ Stipe: Absent, fruiting bodies sessile or lateral on wood substrate
⚪ Spore print white
🪵 Saprobic on decaying hardwood or conifer wood, grows clustered, overlapping shelves on logs or stumps, summer through autumn
😖 Inedible, extremely bitter and acrid, not poisonous
📏 Fruit body size small to medium
📐 Cap 2.5–10 cm diameter
🧪 Fresh cap surface usually KOH negative, dried flesh strong amyloid reaction with Melzer’s reagent
👃 Fragrant
👅 Strongly acrid, peppery
🔬 Spores ellipsoid, 3–4 × 2–3 µm, sparsely, finely spiny, strongly amyloid, basidia 18–20 × 3–4 µm, clavate, 4-sterigmate, pleurocystidia 22–30 × 4–6 µm, fusiform or cylindric
🔤 Bitter, wood-decaying shelf fungus with a brownish cap and saw-toothed pale gills
🇬🇧 bear lentinus - 🇩🇪 Geschichteter Zähling - 🇪🇪 Karulentinell - 🇷🇺 Пилолистничек медвежий