Lentinus squamosus Quél. 1888

Lentodium squamosum (Schaeff.) Murrill, Mycologia 3: 27. 1911
Agaricus squamosus Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: Ind. 15. 1774.
Agaricus lepideus Fries, Obs. Myc. 1: 21. 1815.
Lentinus lepideus Fries, Syst. Orbis Veg. 78. 1825.
Lentinus suffruiescens Fries, Epicr. Myc. 393.* 1838.
? Lentinus m,aximus Johnson, Bull. Minn. Acad. Sci. 1: 338. 1878.
Lentinus tnagnus Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 23: 413. 1896.
Lentinus spretus Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 105: 24. 1906.
Pileus fleshy to tough, compact, hard when dry, convex or nearly plane, sometimes slightly depressed in the center and sometimes umbonate, solitary or cespitose, 5-15 cm. broad; surface white or pale-ochraceous, the cuticle cracking and usually forming brownish, spot-like scales, which are sometimes almost black: context white, with agreeable odor; lamellae subdistant, broad, sinuate-decurrent, transversely lacerate and dentate-serrate on the edges, white; spores ellipsoid, 7-1,5 X 3-6 m: stipe white or whitish, short, hard, solid, often pointed at the base, more or less adorned with recurved scales, sometimes eccentric, 2 . 5-6 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick ; annulus fixed, white, often disappearing.
Type locality: Bavaria.
Habitat: Structural timbers and logs, especially of coniferous trees.
Distribution: Throughout temperate and tropical North America; also in Europe and Asia.