04/Oct/2025, 1:39 PM
Kloostrimetsa sild, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
River, on bridge old wooden planks
59°27'53.9"N 24°53'09.8"E
🌡️ 7°C ⛅ Partly sunny 💨 Wind 130° SE->NW, 19 km/h
Original Instagram postGloeophyllum sepiarium
conifer mazegill
- Scientific identification
- Gloeophyllum sepiarium (Wulfen) P.Karst.
- Family
- Gloeophyllaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Gloeophyllum
Names across languages
- English: conifer mazegill
- German: Zaun-Blättling
- Finnish: Aidaskääpä
- Estonian: Mustjas kõrbik
- Russian: Глеофиллум заборный
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-10-04.
Hymenium
Gills—irregular, somewhat maze-like (gilled polypore), closely spaced, initially pale to orange-brown, darkening with age
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
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate
Stipe
None
Spore print
Spore print white
Description
Saprobic (wood-decay fungus) causing brown rot on dead conifer wood (logs, stumps, beams, posts)
Ecology
Inedible (too tough, leathery)
Fruit body
Fruit body depth variable, up to several cm
Dimensions
Cap ⌀ ~1.5–15 cm
Flesh
Flesh is brownish, no color change when cut
Chemical reactions
Flesh and tissues turn black with KOH
Odour
Mild
Taste
Mild and tough
Microscopy
Spores cylindrical, smooth, ~9–13 × 3–5 µm, inamyloid, hyaline in KOH, basidia elongated, cylindric cystidia, up to ~100 × 10 µm.
Overview
Bracket fungus with mazed gills that grows on dead conifer wood, causing brown rot
1882). Bidr. Känn. Finl. Nat. Folk 37: 79.
Field encounters
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