ເຫັດບົດ / Tiger Lentinus

Cap 5−16 cm wide, eccentric and slightly infundibuliform to lateral and flabelliform or semicircular, often imbricate, dark fuliginous then fuscous brown to pale yellowish bistre or pallid ochraceous, greyish brown round the margin, wholly finely squarrose with small, rather crowded, fibrilloso-fasciculate, more or less recurved, fuscous squamules, weathering almost smooth, fibrillose towards the strigosofimbriate or hispid margin at first incurved with pale brownish bistre hairs, then straight and finally lacerate. Stem 0.5−2.5 cm × 4−18 mm above, central, eccentric, or lateral, tapered to the abrupt and often blackish base, short, obconic, firm, pale cream white to pallid bistre, wholly finely scurfy villous, fuliginous squamulose when young. Gills deeply and rather unequally decurrent, crowded, 15−98 primaries 24.5 mm wide, 5−7 ranks, often shortly forked 1−3 times near the stem apex, pale fuliginous yellowish bistre, darker fuliginous brownish towards the entire or minutely denticulate edge, finally brownish ochraceous, without hyphal pegs or finely papillate with minute pegs. Flesh 3−8 mm thick in the center of the cap, 0.5−2 mm thick halfway to the margin, tough, dry, pliant, white.