Datronia

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Datronia
Datronia mollis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Datronia
Donk (1966)
Type species
Datronia mollis
(Sommerf.) Donk (1966)
Species

D. decipiens
D. glabra
D. mollis
D. scutellata
D. stereoides

Datronia is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. The genus, circumscribed by Marinus Anton Donk in 1966, causes a white rot in hardwoods.[1] Datronia contains five species found in northern temperate areas.[2]

References

  1. Donk MA. (1966). "Notes on European polypores – I". Persoonia 4 (3): 337–43. 
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 

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