7 January 2017 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Resupinate, poroid, rust brown, pores circular to angular, 4 to 6 pores per mm, forming large patches Flesh Rust brown Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season All year Distribution Very common Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees, especially hazel Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores sausage shaped (6-7.5) x (2-2.5) µm2. Basidia clavate, four spored. Hyphal system dimitic. Cystidia absent. Hymenial setae awl shaped, dark brown, to about 30 µm long. Edibility Inedible Notes Very similar to Fuscoporia ferruginosa, from which it can be distinguished by examination of the spores 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 7 January 2017 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Setae in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 7 January 2017 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |