Key Identification Features
- The flesh has a faint fruity or indistinct odor and a mild taste.
- Unlike most other polypore species, Gloeophyllum sepiarium has a distinctive hymenial surface that bears true gills.
- The cap cuticle ranges in colour from white, cream, to pale brown, and is distinctly covered with dark scales arranged in concentric rings that grow denser toward the depressed centre of the cap.
- The mushroom has an odour somewhat similar to anise, and has no distinct taste.
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