Perenniporia

Perenniporia
Perenniporia ochroleuca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Perenniporia
Murrill
Type species
Perenniporia medulla-panis
(Jacq.) Donk
Synonyms

Poria Pers. (1794)

Perenniporia is a cosmopolitan genus of bracket-forming or encrusting polypores containing about 60 currently recognized species.[1] They are dimitic or trimitic with smooth, thick-walled basidiospores and cause a white rot in affected wood.

Species

References

  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi. (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 508. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 

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