21/Sep/25, 3:16 PM
Kõrveküla, Lääne-Viru, Eesti
Heath area with deep bushes, on dry hardwood branch
59°14'10.2"N 25°39'26.3"E
🌡️ 21°C ☀️ Sunny. Wind 200° SSW->NNE, 20 km/h
Original Instagram postLentinus arcularius
spring polypore
- Scientific identification
- Lentinus arcularius (Batsch) Zmitr.
- Family
- Polyporaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Lentinus
Names across languages
- English: spring polypore
- German: Weitlöcheriger Stielporling
- Finnish: -
- Estonian: -
- Russian: Пилолистник ларцевидный
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-09-21.
Hymenium
Pores large, angular to hexagonal, whitish to pale cream becoming light brown with age
Cap
Convex to depressed center, surface dry, scaly to fibrillose, color from dark brown in youth to pale tan, margin with fine hairs/cilia
Hymenium Attachment
Poroid, decurrent on stipe
Stipe
Central, matching or slightly paler than cap, dry and scaly, tough in texture
Spore print
Spore print creamy white
Ecology
Saprobic on deciduous hardwoods (fallen logs, stumps, branches), spring to autumn
Ecology
Inedible, too small, tough, and insubstantial
Fruit body
Fruit body small, stipe 2–6 cm × ~1.5–4.5 mm
Dimensions
Cap 1–8 cm
Chemical reactions
KOH — negative
Odour
Slight, indistinct
Taste
Indistinct, woody
Microscopy
Spores cylindrical to narrowly ellipsoid, smooth, ~5.0–8.5×1.5–2.5µm, hyaline in KOH, basidia 2- to 4-sterigmate, no cystidia, pileipellis radial cutis of brown, clamped hyphae 4–7 µm wide, dimitic
Overview
Small polypore bears a scaly, brown cap and decurrent large pores surface
2010). International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms (Redding) 12(1): 88.
Field encounters
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