Ganoderma lucidum (Curt. ex Fr.) Karst. Glanzender Lackporling Ganoderme luisant, Ganoderme laque, Polypore lucide, Lacquered Bracket. Fruit body usually stalked. Bracket 10–25cm in diameter, 2–3cm thick, fan- or kidney-shaped, laterally attached, concentrically grooved and zoned ochraceous to orange brown, later purple-brown to blackish, and like the stem conspicuously glossy as if varnished. Stem up to 250 x 10–30mm, dark brown, glossy. Tubes 0.5–2cm long. Pores 4–5 per mm, circular, whitish then cream, finally tobacco brown, darkening on bruising when fresh. Spores rusty, ellipsoid-ovate with truncate end, 7–13 x 6–8um. Habitat on roots of deciduous trees. Season all year. Rare. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.