Echinodontium tinctorium

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Echinodontium tinctorium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Basidiomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Echinodontiaceae
Genus: Echinodontium
Species: E. tinctorium
Binomial name
Echinodontium tinctorium
(Ellis & Everh.) Ellis & Everh. [as tinctorius]
Synonyms

Fomes tinctorius Ellis & Everh.
Hydnofomes tinctorius (Ellis & Everh.) Lloyd
Hydnum tinctorium (Ellis & Everh.) Lloyd
Scindalma tinctorium (Ellis & Everh.) Kuntze

Echinodontium tinctorium is a plant pathogen. It is commonly known as the Indian paint fungus.

Some Plateau Indian tribes applied it to skin to prevent it from chapping.[1]

References

  1. Hunn, Eugene S. (1990). Nch'i-Wana, "The Big River": Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land. University of Washington Press. p. 353. ISBN 0-295-97119-3. 

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