Polyporus (Hispidi) setiger, Cke.
Pileo dimidiato vel reniformi, carnoso, molli, strigoso, cervino (1-2 unc. diam.), intus fibroso, candido; hymenio albo, leniter concavo, margine acuto. Tubulis elongatis. Poris niinutis subrotundis, dissepimentis tenuissimis.

On rotten logs. New Zealand. (Colenso 517.)

Nothofagus cliffortioides (Hook.f.) Oerst.Auckland. Waihouhounou Hut, Mt. Ruapehu, 3,500 feet, Nov. 1941, R.E.Matthews. Nothofagus fusca (Hook.f.) Oerst. Nelson. Lake Rotoiti, Aug. 1947, G.B.Rawlings. Unknoum Hosts. Auckland. Mt. Wellington, 50 feet, May 1942, Rona Denne. Wellington. Day's Bay, 500 feet, May 1946, G.B.Rawlings.

Hymenophore annual, solitary, dimidiate, firm, somewhat brittle. Pileus applanate, to 7 cm. x 3.5 cm. x 20-25 mm. at the base; surface at first white, becoming pallid ochre, fawn, or dingy grey, covered with loose radiately arranged coarse strigose hairs which are finer towards the margin and of the same colour, in the centre compacted into coarse strigose erect tufts, cuticle wanting; margin bluntly acuminate, slightly inturned, lacerate, or strigose; hymenial surface white when fresh, drying dingy honey colour or pallid ochre, even, slightly concave or as often slightly convex, dissepiments toothed. Context white, to 15 mm. thick, of loosely woven hyphae arranged in parallel somewhat radiate bands; generative hyphae 4-6 µ thick, wall 1-1.5 µ, sparsely branched, septate, clamp connections large and abundant. Pores angular, less often rounded, 3-7 mm. deep, in section white, honey colour near orifices, separated from the context by a more densely woven layer to 0.5 mm. thick, 100-200 µ diameter, or 3-4 per mm.; dissepiments brittle, 50-100 µ thick, equal, apex even or finely velutinate. Basidial type clavate, basidia clavate, to 12 x 5 µ. Spores allantoid, 3.5-4.5 x 1-1.5 µ, smooth, hyaline.

Growing solitary on decorticated decaying wood, usually on the under surfaces of logs.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.