The lobes, which carry the spore-bearing surface, are flat and wavy, resembling lasagna noodles, coloured white to creamy yellow.

[4] The less well-known S. brevipes, found in Europe, can be distinguished by its less crinkled, zoned folds and lack of clamp connections.

[4][2] This species is fairly common in Great Britain and temperate Europe (but not in the boreal zone), from July to November.

[5] It is a brown rot fungus, found growing at the base of conifer trunks, often pines, but also spruce, cedar, larch and others.

One French cookbook, which gives four recipes for this species, says that grubs and pine needles can get caught up in holes in the jumbled mass of flesh.