Split-pore Fungus
Description
Less than 1cm: Use magnifying glass.
Fruit-body annual, leathery crust-like, forming strips up to 5 decimetres in length, up to 5 mm thick, with pale, ciliate or clearly demarcated, occasionally incurved margin.
Tubes 1-4 mm long, creamy white to pale yellow. Pores 1-3 per mm, highly variable, angular to labyrinthine, slanting dentate, tiered on perpendicular substrates, white or cream to pale yellow.
Spore-print colour white.
Occurrence
Common on branches, trunks and stumps of deciduous trees (Oak, Beech, Birch, Alder), occasionally on wood of coniferous trees.
Saprophyte.
Related and/or similar species
- Schizopora flavipora
- Schizopora radula