Fomes fasciatus

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Fomes fasciatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Fomes
Species: F. fasciatus
Binomial name
Fomes fasciatus
(Sw.) Cooke (1885)
Synonyms[1]

Boletus fasciatus Sw. (1788)
Polyporus fasciatus (Sw.) Fr. (1821)
Scindalma fasciatum (Sw.) Kuntze (1898)
Elfvingia fasciata (Sw.) Murrill (1903)
Elfvingiella fasciata (Sw.) Murrill (1915)

Fomes fasciatus is species of fungus in the Polyporaceae family. It a plant pathogen that causes white rot of heartwood of hardwoods. Originally described in 1788 by Swedish botanist Olof Swartz from specimens collected in Jamaica,[2] it is also found in North America.

References

  1. ↑ "Fomes fasciatus (Sw.) Cooke 1885". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-11-02. 
  2. ↑ Swartz O. (1788). Nova genera et species Plantarum seu prodromus descriptioneum vegetabilium maximam parte incognitorum qua sub itinere in Indiam Occidentalem annis 1783-1787 digessit Olof Swartz M.D (in Latin). p. 149. 

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