title: Scutiger (fungus)
text: # Scutiger (fungus)
  
  Scutiger is a genus of fungi in the family Albatrellaceae, which includes S. oregonensis, the fungus tuber.
  
  ## General characteristics
  
  Species in Scutiger are terrestrial, annual, and usually have simple, bright-colored, mesoporous hymenophores. The surface anoderm is variously decorated; the context is usually white, but rarely colored, and is fleshy to tough—rigid and fragile when dry. The Hymenium is porous, can be white or colored, and has thin-walled tubes; The spores are smooth, or rarely echinulate and hyaline.
  
  The surface of the pileus can be uneven, squamous, or rugose as in S. oregonensis or S. decurrens; or smooth and hispid-tomentose, as in S. hispidellus (synonymous with Jahnoporus hirtus, which was named for this quality.
  
  ## Species list
  
  * S. auriscalpium
  * S. brasiliensis
  * S. caeruleoporus
  * S. cryptopus
  * S. decurrens
  * S. ellisii (synonymous with Albatrellus ellisii or greening goat's foot)
  * S. hispidellus (synonymous with Jahnoporus hirtus)
  * S. holocyaneus
  * S. oregonensis
  * S. subrubescens
  * S. subsquamosus
  * S. tuberosus
  