MycoKey : the species Inonotus hispidus

Generic short diagnoses: Annual, typically thick-fleshed and tough, but not woody,white rotting polypores with more or less vivid brown flesh, pore surface with a silvery reflex when fresh and often with prominent hymenial setae. On wood or rooting in soil.


Inonotus hispidus - DK: børstehåret spejlporesvamp, UK: Shaggy Bracket

Inonotus hispidus , børstehåret spejlporesvamp, Shaggy Bracket, pelskjuke, pælsticka, Ruige weerschijnzwam
Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-03.134
Inonotus hispidus , børstehåret spejlporesvamp, Shaggy Bracket, pelskjuke, pælsticka, Ruige weerschijnzwam
pores (note the yellow spore-deposit)
Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-03.134
Inonotus hispidus , børstehåret spejlporesvamp, Shaggy Bracket, pelskjuke, pælsticka, Ruige weerschijnzwam
Illustration and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-09.392

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