🍄 Family

Cerrenaceae

3 species · Fungi

Fungi › Basidiomycota › Agaricomycetes › Polyporales › Cerrenaceae

Cerrena hydnoides is a saprobic white rot polypore fungus used in traditional medicine across tropical regions.

Cerrena unicolor is a widely distributed wood-rotting inedible fungus that is a source of the useful enzyme laccase.

Cerrena zonata is a poroid white rot fungus in Polyporaceae that grows on dead hardwoods across multiple regions of the world.

Related Families

Polyporaceae 56 species Fomitopsidaceae 12 species Meruliaceae 8 species Laetiporaceae 7 species Irpicaceae 6 species Phanerochaetaceae 6 species Incrustoporiaceae 4 species Meripilaceae 4 species

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