Gymnopilus allantopus, is a common wood-rotting fungus found on soil, usually on buried wood, or on rotting wood. Often in clusters, with caps to 90 mm, yellow-buff to buff-orange, distinguished by irregular remnants of a white cortina around the margin. Gills yellowish to yellow-brown, crowded; spore print golden rust. Stem yellow to orange, evanescent whitish ring, with whitish fibrillose zones of velar remnant; often swollen near the base. Name from Greek "allanto+pus" = sausage foot.