🍄 Family

Phanerochaetaceae

6 species · Fungi

Fungi › Basidiomycota › Agaricomycetes › Polyporales › Phanerochaetaceae

Hapalopilus croceus is a globally rare white-rot polypore that decays veteran oak wood, listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN.

Bjerkandera adusta is an inedible shelf fungus growing on decaying wood, researched for bioremediation and potential cosmetic use.

Bjerkandera fumosa is a polypore fungus that causes white rot of hardwoods and has a circumboreal Northern Hemisphere distribution.

Hapalopilus rutilans is a saprobic polypore that is neurotoxic when consumed and used to make violet mushroom dye.

Terana coerulea (cobalt crust) is a blue resupinate fungus that grows on dead deciduous wood, found worldwide in warmer climates.

Pirex is a monotypic Meruliaceae fungal genus containing the single white-rot-causing crust fungus Pirex concentricus.

Related Families

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

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