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Scientific name: Gloeophyllum sepiarium (Fr.) Karst
Derivation of name: Gloeophyllum means "with glutinous or
sticky leaves"; sepiarium means "dark, sepia-colored."
Synonymy: Lenzites saepiaria (Wulf. ex Fries) Fries;
Daedalea sepiaria Fr.
Common names: Yellow-red gill polypore.
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Polyporales
Family: Gloeophyllaceae
Occurrence on wood substrate: Saprobic; solitary or grouped
or in rosette-like clusters most often on dead conifer wood; June
through November, overwinters.
Dimensions: Caps 2.5-10 cm wide.
Upper surface: Bright yellowish-red to reddish-brown or
brown with a white to yellow to orange growing margin; hairy to
almost
smooth; zonate.
Pore surface: Golden-brown; mostly gill-like with few pores;
gills 1.5-2 per mm.
Edibility: Inedible.
Comments: G. trabeum is a similar species but its pore
surface
is more a mixture of gills, pores, and maze-like areas. Its
gills are more crowded (2-4 per mm), its pores are smaller (up
to 4 per mm along the margin), it usually grows on deciduous
wood, and it never has the bright colored growing margin that G.
sepiarium has.
More information at RogersMushrooms.com:
Figure 1. Note the brownish color with bright yellowish
growing margin. Photo © Larry Grand.

Figure 2. A whitish growing margin and zonate caps. Photo
© Tom Volk.
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Figure 3. Specimen with a very dark central area and
bright yellow growing margin. Photo © John Plischke III.

Figure 4.
Herbarium specimens.

Figure 5. The gill-like pore surface of this herbarium
specimen of Yellow-red gill
polypore is entirely gilled
(lamellate) with no pores or maze-like areas.

Figure 6. Gloeophyllum sepiarium.
Photo © George Barron.
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