1/4-1/3) stipes, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate (vs.
Terrestrial; rhizomes 1.5-2.0 mm diam., long-creeping; rhizome scales 1-1.5 x 0.3-0.6 mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, blackish, desiduous, marginally entire to denticulate; phyllopodia present, 15-25 mm long; fronds 23-27 cm long, 20-30 mm distant; stipes ca.
Description.--Fruiting bodies: Shell-like with eccentric to lateral, often absent, stipes. Caps: Shell-like to fan-shaped, convex when young becoming planar to slightly depressed at maturity; 3-14 cm across; moist, smooth and without hairs; white to pale tan or yellowish-brown.
Stipes: 2-4 cm long, 5-8 mm thick, concolorous with urn.
erinaceum in having orange rhizome scales and blackish brown stipes and blade scales, but it differs in its terrestrial (vs.
Epiphytic; rhizome 4-7 mm diam., short creeping, dorsiventral; rhizome scales 7-15 x 0.3-1.0 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate, pale-brown to atropurpureous, marginally entire to occasionally dentate; phyllopodia 2-6 mm (not visible for the scales); fronds 23-52 cm long; stipes 2/5-1/2 the frond length; stipe scales 1.54.0 x ca.
gallica are adnate or slightly decurring on to a
stipe, at first white, then up to pink-brown [4].
Only samples that broke just above the holdfast at the lower part of the
stipe were included in subsequent analyses.