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Soft, orange to cinnamon, stemless polypores whose tissues turn violet in KOH. Hapalopilus rutilans contains large amounts of polyporic acid and is poisonous.
Caps orange-brown to cinnamon, soft and watery when fresh; KOH purple to lilac; spores small, ellipsoid, smooth; hyphal system monomitic with clamps; white rot.
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