Order Hymenomycetes Tribe Pileati 

Polyporus versicolor Fr. 

Common Zoned Polyporus 

Botanical Characters. P. versicolor. “Pileus thin coriaceous rigid plane depressed behind velvety nearly even & shinning, variegated with colored zones; pores minute, round, acute, & torn, white then pallid. Variable sometimes quite resupinate or with the margin reflexed more generally dimidiate & densely imbricated, occasionally spuriously stipilate, more or less lobed, villous marked with concentric regular smooth shining zones of various colors sometimes entirely white & not unfrequently the whole surface is villous & the zones mere depressions.” Very common on dead sticks