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Polyporus elegans is a species of fungi in the genus Polyporus. It causes a white rot of dead hardwoods.

Description
Fruiting bodies are annual, 1.5-7 cm in diameter, 0.5-0.5 mm thick, circular to oblong, centrally to laterally stipitate; pale to dull tan, weathering to nearly white; nearly smooth, leathery, drying rigid. Context white or pallid. Tube surface extending down stalk; pores small, 4-5 per mm, angular; pore surface gray to tan. Stalk 0.5-6 cm long, 2-6 mm thick; black at base or lower half. Spores 6-10 x 2.5-3.5 µm, clyclindrical, hyaline, spore print white. Common, often on branches of hardwoods, later summer, fall.