A small reflexed annual polypore that is very occasonally completely resupinate.   The cap is brownish, and soemtimes zonate, with a felted or hairy surface.  The fertile surface has small grey pores that darken if bruised, at 6 - 7 per mm..

There are many similar small brackets, but the grey pores are characteristic. 

pores

This species is almost impossible to verify from photos of upper cap surface; ensure you have photographed lower fertile surface with pores. Also note host plant and substrate.  

On dead wood of deciduous trees, occasionally on conifer wood.

July to November but persisting all year round.

Widespread and fairly common in Britain.

Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland.