Names, authorship and dates from Index Fungorum.

• BasidiomycotaPhylum
• └─ AgaricomycetesClass
• └─ ThelephoralesOrder
• └─ ThelephoraceaeFamily
• └─ ThelephoraGenus

Higher ranks from Catalogue of Life (COL26.9 XR).

not recorded

On the ground and in needle litter, also on bare soil; one of the 'nursery' fungi in tree nurseries

⚠ Before you pickWild fungi may be taken in small quantities for your own use (§39(3) BNatSchG) — but not in nature reserves or national parks, on closed land or on farmland in use, and never for sale (§39(4)). In Bavaria this right is anchored in Art. 141(3) of the state constitution and is limited to locally customary amounts; the competent authority is the district nature-conservation authority (untere Naturschutzbehörde). Local signs and ordinances come first.

Species protection from BArtSchV Annex 1 and §2(1), retrieved 2026-10-15; Red List from Dämmrich et al. (2016) (BfN / Rote-Liste-Zentrum). Not legal advice — local rules and signage may be stricter. BArtSchV Annex 1 · Red List data

• medicinal mushrooms

Not edible; tough and leathery

• ▸ Fan- to rosette-shaped fruit bodies growing in overlapping clusters, brick-brown and matted-fibrous
• ▸ Upper surface coarse with small tubercles, whitish fringe towards the margin
• ▸ No gills; fertile lower side smooth to wrinkled, grey-brown
• ▸ Stout, felty stem, often partially buried in the litter