Description
Fruit-body elongated, flattened, wrinkled, crust-like, 5-15 x 2-5 cm, brick-red to wine red, later ochrous brown to rusty brown to black. Stroma ochre to yellow-brown, secreting black droplets when damaged.
Occurrence
On thick branches and fallen trunks of broad-leaved trees from which the bark has been partly removed.
Saprophyte.