A bright coral-pink bracket fungus with a wrinkled, gill-like to toothed whitish underside instead of pores. It grows in overlapping clusters on dead hardwood logs and stumps, nearly always alongside the crust fungus Stereum ostrea. Its color fades with age.
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Habitat
Saprobic white-rot fungus on dead hardwood logs and stumps, especially oak, beech, maple and birch, in overlapping clusters; almost always with or intertwined with the crust fungus Stereum ostrea, though the nature of the association is unknown. Late spring to fall, and over winter near the Gulf Coast.
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Eastern North America: fairly widely distributed east of the Great Plains, apparently most common from the Mississippi watershed eastward; also recorded in Texas.
Characteristics
Cap: 1.5-7 cm, semicircular to kidney-shaped bracket, flat-convex, smooth or finely hairy, bright coral pink when fresh and fading; margin wavy, often white. Underside: whitish to pinkish, becoming dirty white or tan; no true pores, but wrinkled and folded, nearly toothed near the point of attachment; bruising mustard yellow when mature. Stem: absent. Flesh: white, soft then tough and leathery. KOH: cap and flesh yellowish green to olive yellow, then pale orange. Spore print: white. Spores: 4-6 x 2-2.5 um, smooth, elliptical, inamyloid (MushroomExpert.com).
