[5] The pore surface is yellow, with a dark line separating the lower context and the upper tomentum.

[6] Defining characteristics of T. elegans include skeletal hyphae, thin-walled basidiospores, and a poroid hymenophore.

[5] As T. elegans belongs to the white rot fungi group, they are important in breaking down lignin from trees and they do so extracellularly, non-specifically, and non-hydrolytically.

Places where it occurs include West Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the southern United States.

In a study, researchers found that compounds isolated from T. elegans were able to inhibit microbial growth.