Creolophos antennae (Hericium cirrhatum)
- Vaega: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Vaevaega: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Vasega: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Vasega laiti: Incertae sedis (o le tulaga le mautinoa)
- Poloaiga: Russulales (Russulovye)
- Aiga: Hericiaceae (Hericaceae)
- Genus: Hericium (Hericium)
- ituaiga: Hericium cirrhatum (Creolophos cirri)
Ole igoa o iai nei (e tusa ai ma le Species Fungorum).
faamatalaga:
Cap 5-15 (20) cm wide, rounded, fan-shaped, sometimes irregularly curved in a group, wrapped, curly, sessile, adherent sideways, sometimes tongue-shaped with a narrowed base, with a thin or rounded folded or lowered edge, hard on top, rough, with with appressed and ingrown villi, uniform with the surface, more visible at the edge, light, white, pale yellowish, pinkish, rarely yellow-ocher, later with a raised reddish edge.
The hymenophore is spiny, consisting of dense, soft, long (about 0,5 cm or more) conical white, later yellowish spines.
The pulp is cottony, watery, yellowish, without any special smell.
Faʻasalalau:
It grows from the end of June, massively from mid-July to the end of September on dead hardwood (aspen), in deciduous and mixed forests, parks, in tiled groups, rarely.
Le tutusa:
It is similar to Northern Climacodon, from which it differs in loose cotton-like flesh, longer spines and an edge that is curved upwards in adulthood.