Inonotus cuticularis

Inonotus cuticularis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Hymenochaetales
Family: Hymenochaetaceae
Genus: Inonotus
Species:
I. cuticularis
Binomial name
Inonotus cuticularis
(Bull.) P.Karst. (1879)
Synonyms

Boletus cuticularis Bull. (1790)
Polyporus cuticularis (Bull.) Fr. (1821)
Xanthochrous cuticularis (Bull.) Pat. (1900)
Polystictoides cuticularis (Bull.) Lázaro Ibiza (1916)

Inonotus cuticularis, the clustered bracket, is a species of fungus in the family Hymenochaetaceae. A plant pathogen, it has a circumpolar distribution, and is found in the temperate zone from eastern U.S. and Canada to Japan, China, Russia and south to central Europe.