Bondarzewia montana (Quél.) Singer Fruit body annual. Cap up to11cm across, 1cm thick, one or several on a branched stem, convex becoming flat and sunken; purplish brown or ochraceous brown; scurfy or finely felty becoming wrinkled. Tubes up to 2mm deep, often decurrent on stem, continuous with flesh; cream-colored. Pores 1-3 per mm, angular; surface cream-colored. Stem up to 120 x 40mm, central or off center; brown; velvety, rooting. Flesh up to 1cm thick, firm, hard; cream-colored. Odor pleasant, nutlike. Spores globose to subglobose, amyloid, ornamented with irregular short amyloid ridges, 6-8 x 5-7µ. Deposit white. Hyphal structure dimitic. Habitat on the ground or on buried wood under conifers - pine, spruce, fir, Douglas fir. Found in the Pacific Northwest and California. Season September-November. Edible.