 In some these are conspicuous and may be ear-shaped, button-shaped, lobed, or effused.Their hymenophores (spore-bearing surfaces) may be smooth, warted, veined, toothed (as in the genus "Pseudohydnum"), or poroid (as in the genera "Elmerina" and "Protomerulius").Some species, however, produce dry, leathery, or web-like fruit bodies resembling those of the corticioid fungi.