A smallish reddish brown annual bracket found usually growing in tiers on the trunks of Alder and occasionally on other braodleaf trees.
Rare, throughout the year, sporulating late Summer and Autumn.
Broadleaf woodland with Alder but occasionally other broadleaf trees.
The fruitbody initially has a rust-brown with a yellow margin upper body that turns a cigar-brown and finally blackish brown with age. It is felty or downy then smooth with age, concentrically zoned and radially wrinkled. It often exudes yellowish drops when growing.
Thick, soft, whitish and spongy, tough when dry.
Pores are more or less rounded, whitish, later a dull grey-brown then dark brown. Tubes concolorous with the pores, 6-10mm deep.
Inedible.
