page_title: Skeletocutis
section_title: Macroscopic characteristics
hierarchical_section_title: Skeletocutis / Description / Macroscopic characteristics
caption_attribution_description: Skeletocutis nivea Location: Bovec basin, East Julian Alps, Posočje, Slovenia For more information about this, see the observation page at Mushroom Observer. English&#160;|&#160;español&#160;|&#160;français&#160;|&#160;italiano&#160;|&#160;македонски&#160;|&#160;português&#160;| +/−
context_page_description: Skeletocutis is a genus of about 40 species of poroid fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, although most species are found in the Northern Hemisphere. Skeletocutis causes a white rot in a diverse array of woody substrates. Their fruit bodies grow as a crust on the surface of the decaying wood. Sometimes the edges of the crust are turned outward to form rudimentary bracket-like caps.
  Skeletocutis is primarily distinguished from similar genera of wood-rotting fungi by microscopic features, especially by the sausage-shaped to ellipsoid spores, and spiny crystals covering certain hyphae in the pore tissue. The genus was circumscribed by Czech mycologists František Kotlaba and Zdenek Pouzar in 1958, with Skeletocutis amorpha as the type species.
context_section_description: The fruit bodies of Skeletocutis are annual to perennial. They are resupinate (crust-like) to pileate (that is, with a cap). When caps are present, their colour is typically white, cream-pink, or lilac, although the fruit body tends to discolour somewhat when dry. The pores are small and round to irregular in shape. Many Skeletocutis species have a zone of dense cartilaginous tissue above the tube layer; this zone has a gelatinous texture when fresh.
caption: Pores of S. nivea
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