“…The genus is characterized by being resupinate, effused, reflexed to subpileate or pileate, and odontoid to hydnoid basidiocarps, usually cream coloured with pinkish, orange hymenial surface having violaceous or brown tints, fibrillose margins, usually dimitic hyphal system (monomitic in Steccherinum albofibrillosum), encrusted skeletocystidia and ellipsoid to ovoid to subglobose, smooth, acyanophilous, and inamyloid basidiospores. According to Binder et al [1,2], genus Steccherinum does not show any clear cut monophyletic lineage but belongs to "residual polyporoid clade," a heterogeneous group of Polyporales that did not belong to any of the recognized lineages (Antrodia, core polyporoid, and phlebioid clades) defined by them. Earlier workers Thind and Khara [3]; Rattan [4]; Lalji [5]; Bhosle et al [6]; Ranadive et al [7]; Sharma [8]; Prasher and Ashok [9]; Prasher and Lalita [10]; Ranadive [11]; Dhingra et al [12] have described/listed 5 species, namely, S. ochraceum, S. ciliolatum, S. fimbriatum, S. laeticolor, and S. subcrinale from different localities of India, of which S. ochraceum, S. fimbriatum, and S. laeticolor are known to be from Uttarakhand.…”