Ganoderma applanatum

artist's bracket

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2025-09-07.

Pores, small and round (~4–6 per mm), underside white to pale, staining brown

Shelf- or bracket-shaped, semicircular to hooflike, sessile, surface dull, brownish to gray-brown, often zonate, texture rough, firm and woody

N/A

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

1887). Hyménomyc. Eur. (Paris): 143.

Kloostrimetsa soo õpperada, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Eesti

Deciduous boggy forest, on dead birch tree stump

59°28'01.2"N 24°53'32.2"E

🌡️ 22°C 🌥️🌫️ Partly sunny, upcoming dense fog from the sea