Local name: No local name known

Edibility: Inedible due to its woody texture.

Habitat: On dead stumps and logs and occasionally on living trees and growing alone or gregariously.

Description: Fruiting bodies:  Up to 30 cm across, 15cm thick, semi-circular or fan-shaped or hoof-shaped, smooth, becoming wrinkled with age, red to dark brownish red or brown to black toward the point of attachment, with white to yellow marginal area, hard, woody. Hymenophore: Cream-colored pores, not bruising, with 3-6 round pores per mm, tube layers usually fairly distinct, up to 8 mm deep. Flesh: Up to 12 cm thick, corky, hard, woody, cream to buff. Spore Print: Whitish.

Comments: It might be confused with Ganoderma tsugae, but is perennial and much harder and denser. It has a bracket-like to shelf-like or irregularly knobby fruiting body. The cap is usually brown to greyish brown with a pallid growing margin, but is sometimes reddish-brown and its flesh does not redden in KOH. It is a frequent parasite of conifers and usually grows at the base of the trunk or from its roots.