| Phellodon | |
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| Phellodon niger | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Thelephorales |
| Family: | Bankeraceae |
| Genus: | Phellodon P.Karst. (1881) |
| Type species | |
| Phellodon niger (Fr.) P.Karst. (as 'nigrum') (1881) |
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| Species | |
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16, see text |
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Phellodon is a genus of fungi in the family Bankeraceae. The genus contains 16 species found in Europe and North America.[1] Phellodon was circumscribed by Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten in 1881.[2]