Taxonomy
Red List Status -
Description
Cap: an irregularly fan shaped bracket narrowly attached to its substrate; 20 - 80 mm diameter and 10 - 90 mm thick; upper surface smooth but often very irregular, radially grooved, but also often bumpy, zoned with pale brown and dark tobacco coloured concentric bands and a white outer edge when fruiting.
Stipe: absent.
Pores: off white to pale brown hexagonal and shallow; 2 - 3 pores per mm;pore surface is honeycomb like.
Flesh: hard, woody, pale brown.
Smell: none.
Spore print: white.
Spores:
Notes: This fungus is recognized in the field by its honeycomb like hexagonal shallow pores and pale brown colours.
Patrick Leonard 2019