Local name: No local name known

Edibility: Edible but it has strong sour taste which some may not like.

Habitat: Solitary to gregarious on woods

Description: Fruiting bodies: Bracket 5-15 (25) cm across and up to 4cm thick, tongue-shaped or semicircular.  Upper surface:  Red-pinkish to orange-red in colour and jelly when young and wet and rough with rudimentary pores especially toward the margin. Hymenophore: Tubes up to 1.5cm deep, free but adhering in maturity and whitish in colour. Three circular pores per/mm which are whitish at first then bruising to reddish brown in maturity or when bruised.  Stem:  Sometimes rudimentary or short, thick and blood red. Flesh:  Thick and succulent with dark flesh-pink and lighter veining with bloodlike sap. Spore Print: Pinkish.

Comment: It looks like a piece of red meat when sliced and blood-red liquid oozes out. It’s flesh is never tough like in other poly pores and bracket fungi. The similar species are Pseudo-fistulina radicata but this has greyish to pale red cap and its stem is longer and rooting.