Skeletocutis pink-gray (Skeletocutis carneogrisea)
Skeletocutis pink-gray belongs to the tinder fungus included in the thyromycetoid morphotype.
Found everywhere. Prefers coniferous wood (especially spruce, pine). In large numbers, it can grow on deadwood, wood damaged and decomposed by Trihaptum. It also grows on dead Trihaptum basidiomas.
Fruiting bodies are prostrate, sometimes have bent edges. The caps are very thin and may be shell-shaped. Color – pale whitish, brown. Young mushrooms have a slight pubescence, later the cap is completely bare. They are about 3 cm in diameter.
The pink-gray hymenophore of skeletocutis in young mushrooms is beautiful, with a pink tint. In old mushrooms – brown, dirty color, with clearly visible pores. Its thickness is up to about 1 mm.
In settlements, it is often interspersed with specimens of Trichaptum fir (Trichaptum abietinum), very similar to it. Difference: the color of the cap of the trichptum is lilac, the pores are very strongly split.
Also, the pink-gray skeleton is similar to the shapeless skeleton (Skeletocutis amorpha), but in that hymenophore tubules are yellow or even orange in color.