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

Geographical distribution