🇬🇧 conifer mazegill - 🇩🇪 Zaun-Blättling - 🇪🇪 Mustjas kõrbik - 🇷🇺 Глеофиллум заборный 11/9/08—10/4/25
🆔 Gloeophyllum sepiarium (Wulfen) P.Karst.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills—irregular, somewhat maze-like (gilled polypore), closely spaced, initially pale to orange-brown, darkening with age
ℹ️ Cap: Fan-shaped to semicircular brackets, often irregular lobed, surface velvety when young, later smooth or slightly rugged, concentric zones of brown-yellow-orange tones, margin often lighter
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Adnate
❌ Stipe: None
⚪ Spore print white
🏚️🪵 Saprobic (wood-decay fungus) causing brown rot on dead conifer wood (logs, stumps, beams, posts)
🪵 Inedible (too tough, leathery)
📏 Fruit body depth variable, up to several cm
📐 Cap ⌀ ~1.5–15 cm
🔪 Flesh is brownish, no color change when cut
🧪 Flesh and tissues turn black with KOH
👃 Mild
👅 Mild and tough
🔬 Spores cylindrical, smooth, ~9–13 × 3–5 µm, inamyloid, hyaline in KOH, basidia elongated, cylindric cystidia, up to ~100 × 10 µm
🔤 Bracket fungus with mazed gills that grows on dead conifer wood, causing brown rot
🇬🇧 conifer mazegill - 🇩🇪 Zaun-Blättling - 🇪🇪 Mustjas kõrbik - 🇷🇺 Глеофиллум заборный