Gymnopilus penetrans (Fr.) Murrill 1912

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Gymnopilus penetrans is saprobic on decayed wood of Pinopsida
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Gymnopilus penetrans is saprobic on decayed wood of Broadleaved trees
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Gymnopilus penetrans is saprobic on decayed wood of Betula
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Gymnopilus penetrans is saprobic on decayed wood of Fagus
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Gymnopilus penetrans is saprobic on decayed wood of Quercus
Other: minor host/prey

Guidance for identification (German text)

Gymnopilus penetrans (Fries) Murrill, Mycologia 4: 254. 1912
Agaricus penetrans Fries, Obs. Myc. 1: 23. 1815. Flammula penetrans Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 233. 1872.
Pileus conic or convex to plane, gregarious or sometimes cespitose, 3-6 cm. broad; surface dry, slightly floccose-squamulose when young, often becoming squamose or rimose with age,
golden-tawny or ferruginous-fulvous, sometimes much darker in old or dried specimens; lamellae adnate, crowded, cream-colored to ferruginous or fulvous, changing to reddishfulvous when bruised, entire and concolorous on the edges; spores ovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, melleous under the microscope, 7-9 X 3.5-5 ju; stipe rather short, often irregular, equal or tapering upward, whitish-fibrillose streaked with yellow or brown, often much darker below with age, whitishor yellowish-mycelioid at the base, 4-8 cm. long, 5-10 mm. thick; veil slight,
floccose, fugacious.
Type locality: Sweden.
Habitat: On dead coniferous wood, usually on pine.
Distribution: Throughout temperate North America; Cuba and Jamaica; also in Europe.