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A thin, cobwebby, cream to pale ochre crust on the undersides of rotting wood and bark. It is the type species of Botryobasidium, a genus of wood- and litter-rotting fungi named for basidia borne in grape-like clusters on wide, right-angled hyphae. Its fruit bodies are short-lived.
Not edible: a thin film of no food value.
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