Summary:
Features include bracket-like yellowish brown fruitbodies on living and dead hardwoods, small dark purplish red-brown pores, and microscopic characters including setae. Wagner(1) transferred this species to Fuscoporia gilva (Schw.: Fr.) T. Wagner & M. Fischer on the basis of molecular and other work.

Chemical Reactions:
cap tissue blackening in KOH (Arora)

Microscopic:
spores 4-5 x 3-3.5 microns, elliptic to oval, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 5-11 x 5-7 microns, broadly clavate, simple-septate at base; setae abundant, 20-30 x 5-6 microns, subulate [awl-shaped], sharp, dark brown in KOH, thick-walled; hyphae of context of 2 types: 1) 3-7 microns wide, "dark reddish brown in KOH, thick-walled, rarely branched, simple-septate", 2) 3-5 microns wide, "pale yellowish brown, thin-walled, with occasional branching, simple-septate"; hyphae of trama similar, (Gilbertson), spores 4-5 x 2.5-3.5 microns, oblong-elliptic, smooth, rarely found, (Arora)

Spore Deposit:
whitish (Arora)

Notes:
It has been found in BC (Ginns(28)), and WA, OR, ID, MB, ON, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, and WV, (Gilbertson).

EDIBILITY

unknown (Arora)