Laxitextum bicolor (Pers.: Fr.) Lentz syn. Stereum fuscum (Schrad.) Quél. Fruit body 2-5cm across, or spreading in sheets up to 7-15cm; shell-like, overlapping with reflexed edges, upper surface pale brown to nut brown; suede-like to wrinkled sometimes with faint lines and zones of color; lower surface white. Fertile surface white drying to pale buff or pale pinky-buff. Flesh spongy, pliant. Spores oblong ellipsoid, smooth, amyloid, 3.5-4.5 x 2-3µ. Deposit whitish. Gloeocystidia 80-190 x 8-10µ. Habitat on rotting deciduous wood, particularly alder. Found in Europe and eastern North America, west to Indiana and New Mexico, also in the Pacific Northwest. Season August-December, sometimes overwinters. Not edible.