🇬🇧 artist's bracket - 🇩🇪 Flacher Lackporling - 🇪🇪 Jänesvaabik - 🇷🇺 Ганодерма сплюснутая 7/12/09—9/7/25
🆔 Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Pores, small and round (~4–6 per mm), underside white to pale, staining brown
ℹ️ Cap: Shelf- or bracket-shaped, semicircular to hooflike, sessile, surface dull, brownish to gray-brown, often zonate, texture rough, firm and woody
❌ Hymenium Attachment: N/A
❌ Stipe: Absent, generally comes off dead or live wood directly
🟤 Spore print orangish-brown
🍂🪵 Saprotrophic wood-decay fungus, causing white rot in both dead and living hardwoods, weak parasite, perennial fruiting bodies
🪵 Inedible, tough/woody
📏 Fruit body size large, thickness of bracket 1–10 cm
📐 Bracket ~10–30 cm across, depth up to ~8–14 cm
🧪 KOH on cap surface, flesh, and tubes black
👃 Indistinct
👅 Woody texture
🔬 Spores ellipsoid, ~6–9 × 4–5 µm, finely stippled ornamentation, inamyloid, brown in KOH, hyphal system trimitic, clamp connections present
🔤 Woody, perennial bracket fungus growing on hardwoods
🇬🇧 artist's bracket - 🇩🇪 Flacher Lackporling - 🇪🇪 Jänesvaabik - 🇷🇺 Ганодерма сплюснутая