Basidomycota > Agaricomycetes > Polyporales > Polyporaceae.
Commonly known as the Hairy Bracket it is listed in the Queensland Species Profile.
The usually semicircular brackets can be up to 10 cm in diameter when fully grown.
They commonly fuse to form long shelves.
Young caps are white or cream.
They are covered in very dense whitish hairs especially near the base.
Older caps develop narrow concentric ridged zones of grey, white, brown and yellowish-brown.
The zones are not sharply demarcated.
The margin is brownish to almost black.
The upper surface can eventually fade to grey.
The white spore surface ages to cream then pale brown.
The pores are mainly round but some fuse giving irregular shapes.
The spore print in white.
J.F.
