Scutiger pes-caprae

On soil under Pinus or Fagus, with stipitate basidiocarps; pileus irregular to reniform, 8 to 20 cm in diameter, brown, scaly surface; 1 to 2 angular to hexagonal pores per mm; eccentric to lateral stipe; pleasant nutty odor and taste.

Hyphal system monomitic: cuticular hyphae cylindrical, 6 to 15 µm wide, with abundant brown intracellular pigment; contextual hyphae more hyaline, thin-walled, branched, densely compacted and interwoven, 4 to 14 µm wide; all septate and clamped.

Cystidia absent.

Basidia cylindrical-clavate, 30 to 50 µm long, 8 to 12 µm wide, partially clamped and four-spored.

Spores ovoid to ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, slightly thick-walled, with a prominent apiculus at one end, 7.5 to 10 µm long, 5.5 to 8 µm wide, containing a large oil droplet (guttule) inside, and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.