Osteina obducta (Berk.) Donk is a fungus in the Dacryobolaceae family, order Polyporales, kingdom Fungi. Not known to be toxic.
Osteina obducta (Berk.) Donk
Osteina obducta is an inedible fungus that causes brown rot in gymnosperm wood, with distinct microscopic and macroscopic features.
Osteina obducta (Berk.) Donk has fruiting bodies ranging from sessile to stipitate, which become bone-hard when dry. It has a monomitic hyphal system that only contains generative hyphae with clamps. Its spores are hyaline, thin-walled, inamyloid, and acyanophilic. This fungus causes brown rot in gymnosperm wood, and it is inedible.
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