How to identify it?
Fruiting Body
Fruiting body large; fan-shaped or kidney-shaped.
Cap
Cap 4-20 cm across, irregularly at first, but when maturity fan- or kidney-shaped; dark red to orangish red or reddish brown; surface shiny and varnished. Flesh tough, whitish. Odour and taste not distinctive.
Under surface
Undersurface whitish, 4-6 pores per mm, turns dingy reddish brown when bruised.

Scientific Classification

Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Shelf fungi Family
Ganodermataceae Species
Hemlock varnish shelf