Leucogyrophana pseudomollusca is a similar, widely distributed species with a more distinctly merulioid and pinkish orange fertile surface

Hydnophlebia chrysorhiza is a similarly colored, widely distributed crust with a thin and membranous texture, odontoid to hydnoid spines, and orange rhizomorphs

Ceriporia spissa is a similarly colored, widely distributed poroid crust with a cheesy or rubbery texture.

Pycnoporellus alboluteus is a similarly colored holarctic polypore with cascading irpicoid pores

Serpula himantioides is similar but with an orangish brown color

Sarcodontia amplissima is similarly colored North American crust with a waxy texture and hydnoid spines. It is yellow to buff when young, but bruises and ages orange and then rusty orange. Sarcodontia setosa is a European sister species, and S. crocea (syn. S. crocea, Noblesia crocea) is misapplied to this taxon sometimes

Steccherinum ochraceum is a similarly colored, widely distributed species with small, densely packed, hydnoid teeth. It is sometimes pileate

Gloeoporellus merulinus is a similarly colored, Australian crust with a more poroid fertile surface