| Scutiger | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Basidiomycota |
| Subphylum: | Agaricomycotina |
| Class: | Basidiomycetes |
| Subclass: | Agaricomycetidae |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Albatrellaceae |
| Genus: | Scutiger Paulet 1793 |
| Species | |
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S. auriscalpium |
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Scutiger is a genus of fungi in the family Albatrellaceae[1], which includes S. oregonensis, the fungus tuber[2][3].
The scutiger genus are terrestrial, annual, and usually have simple, bright-colored, mesoporous hymenophores. The surface anoderm is variously decorated; the context is usually white, but rarely colored, and is fleshy to tough—rigid and fragile when dry. The Hymenium is porous, can be white or colored, and has thin-walled tubes; The spores are smooth, or rarely echinulate and hyaline[4].
The surface of the pileus can be uneven, squamous, or rugose as in S. oregonensis or S. decurrens; or smooth and hispid-tomentose, as in S. hispidellus (synonymatic with J. hirtus, which was named for this quality[5].