Lentinellus cochleatus - Hat with a diameter of 30 to 600 (800) mm, flesh-red to red-brownish, spatulate, tongue-shaped or spoon-shaped, also in the shape of one-sidedly indented reels, towards the hearth funnel-shaped, with a folded, wavy edge.

Lamellae young white, later pinkish, creamy to pale brown, broadly converging, with notched edge, thick.

Stem length from 100-300 x 60 mm, hat color, darker than the plaque, towards the base dark brown, eccentric, bent, longitudinally guttery, leathery-sallow to cartilaginous.

Flesh pale - flexible, pale, from white to gray in color, with age gunky, in the base of the corky stem. Characteristically anise smell. Taste mild, anise.

Occurrence: On dead deciduous and coniferous wood, on stumps, branches, roots, in dense tufts, in places frequent. From July to October.

Value: edible