Panus strigosus Berk. & Curt. Cap 10-40cm across, fan-shaped to broadly convex, becoming flatter or slightly sunken; whitish to buff, creamy, or yellowish; dry, coarsely hairy all over. Gills decurrent, close to subdistant, broad; whitish tinged brownish or pale mauve, yellowing in age. Stem 20-150 x 10-40mm, generally lateral or off center, solid, sometimes thicker below; white to buff, yellowish in age; tough, coarsely hairy toward the base. Flesh thick, quite tough; white or yellowish. Taste mild. Spores oblong, smooth, nonamyloid, 11-13 x 3.5-5µ. Deposit white. Habitat singly or in small clusters of 3-4 in the wounds of living hardwoods, especially maple and yellow birch. Rare. Found widely distributed in eastern and western North America. Season August-October. Said to be edible but too tough and rare to be worthwhile.