Stereum hirsutum produces small, leathery fruit bodies on dead wood. These may be almost wholly bracket-like but may also start off as a sheet-like growth on the wood, with a part turning away from the wood to form a bracket-like growth. Technically that composite growth form is described as effused-reflexed (effused: the sheet-like bit; reflexed: the turned-out bit). Each fruit body generally covers an area of only a few square centimetres, but separate fruit bodies may merge. They are in shades of yellow/orange/brown and smooth, except that where there is a bracket-like portion, its upper surface has abundant short hairs.
Stereum hirsutum is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Albury, Wodonga | South Coast | Hume | Gippsland
Maps
ANBG Bermagui State Forest Bodalla State Forest Boro Bournda Environment Education Centre Bournda National Park Broulee Moruya Nature Observation Area Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park Crace Grasslands Croajingolong National Park Eurobodalla National Park Gibraltar Pines Gulaga National Park Monga National Park Murramarang National Park Nail Can Hill Namadgi National Park National Arboretum Forests Sullivans Creek, Lyneham South Tallaganda National Park Tumut State ForestPlaces
Bermagui, NSW Chiltern, VIC Genoa, VIC Lyneham, ACT Uriarra Village, ACT