
Rigidoporus laetus
These brackets were about 80 mm wide arising from a wide base forming shelves on wood. The upper surface was leathery and a pinkish brown while the fertile under surface was pale with fine pores. Shelf margins were rounded.
Growing on a dead damp tree stump (possibly Eucalyptus) in a damp temperate forest - Sherbrooke Forest, Dandenong Ranges

"Rigidoporus laetus" is a species of polypore fungus in the family Meripilaceae. It was originally described in 1883 as "Polyporus laetus" by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke. Peter Buchanan and Leif Ryvarden transferred it to "Rigidoporus" in 1988. Found in south Australia, the fungus is a plant pathogen that causes white rot in "Eucalyptus".