Description
Fruit-body perennial, firm, crust-like to flat and cushion-shaped, ascending towards the centre, forming a several centimetres to decimetres long strip along the length of the branch, to 2 cm thick, with a thin whitish sterile rim zone.
Tubes 1-3 mm long in each layer, tobacco-brown. Pores 5-7 per mm, round to elongated, tobacco- to chestnut-brown.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
On branches of deciduous trees (Willow, Oak).
Parasitic.
Related and/or similar species
- Phellinus contiguus on Oak.
- Phellinus nigritolimitatus and Phellinus pini on coniferous trees.