Description
Fruit-body annual to perennial, bracket-like or fan- to shell-shaped, occasionally with caps fusing or growing in rosettes, in rows or imbricate, 4-8 x 2-5 cm, 5-10 mm thick. Upper surface concentrically zoned, bristly-hairy to smooth, tobacco-brown or red-brown to brown-black, with whitish to yellow-brown marginal zone. Pores gill-like, 8-13 per cm, 4-10 mm wide, often decurrent on substrate, cream to grey-brown. Flesh thin, tough, tobacco-brown.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
On trunks and processed wood of coniferous trees.
Saprophyte.
Related and/or similar species
- Gloeophyllum odoratum (Vulnerable (Red Data List, ed. 1)), strongly scented.
- Gloeophyllum trabeum (Rare (Red Data List, ed. 1)).