Common Mazegill - Datronia mollis

The upper surface is brown or blackish and it has hardly any stem. Tubes 0.5 to 5mm long. Pores are irregularly elongated or slot-like, greyish due to a whitish bloom which disappears on handling leaving the pore-surface yellowish-brown or umber.

Grows on wood, usually in well wooded areas.

All year round but best in autumn.

Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.