Ganoderma sessile Murrill 1902

Ganoderma sessile Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 29 : 604. 1902
A variable plant with wrinkled varnished cap and acute margin, found on decaying deciduous trees. Pileus corky to woody, dimidiate, sessile or stipitate, imbricate or connate at times, conchate to fanshaped, thickest behind, thin at the margin, 5-15 X 7-25 X 1^3 cm.; surface glabrous, laccate, shining, radiate-rugose, concentrically sulcate, yellow to reddishchestnut, at length opaque, dark-brown usually marked near the margin with alternating bay and tawny zones ; margin usually very thin and acute, often curved downward, often undulate, rarely becoming truncate, white, at length concolorous : context soft-corky or woody, radiate-fibrous, concentrically banded, ochraceous-f ulvous ; tubes 0.5-2 cm. long, 3-5 to a mm., brown within, mouths circular or angular, white or grayish-brown, edges thin, entire: spores ovoid, obtuse at the summit, attenuate and truncate at the base, verrucose, yellowish-brown, 9-11 X6-8/^ : stipe laterally attached, usually ascending, irregularly C3dindrical, 1-4X0.5-1.5 cm., resembling the pileus in color, surface and substance, often obsolete.
Type locality : New York.
Habitat : On decaying wood of deciduous trees.
Distribution : Connecticut to Missouri, Alabama, and Ivouisiana.