The Polyporaceae are a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of bracket fungi

Bracket fungus

Bracket fungi, or shelf fungi, among many groups of the fungi in the phylum Basidiomycota. Characteristically, they produce shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting bodies called conks that lie in a close planar grouping of separate or interconnected horizontal rows...

 belonging to the Basidiomycota

Basidiomycota

Basidiomycota is one of two large phyla that, together with the Ascomycota, comprise the subkingdom Dikarya within the Kingdom Fungi...

. The flesh of their fruiting bodies varies from soft (as in the case of the Dryad's Saddle illustrated) to very tough. Most members of this family have their hymenium

Hymenium

The hymenium is the tissue layer on the hymenophore of a fungal fruiting body where the cells develop into basidia or asci, which produce spores. In some species all of the cells of the hymenium develop into basidia or asci, while in others some cells develop into sterile cells called cystidia or...

 (fertile layer) in vertical pores on the underside of the caps, but some of them have gills (e.g. Panus

Panus

Panus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:*...

) or gill-like structures (such as Daedaleopsis

Daedaleopsis

Daedaleopsis is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. The widely distributed genus contains six species....

, whose elongated pores form a corky labyrinth). Many species are brackets, but others have a definite stipe

Stipe (mycology)

thumb|150px|right|Diagram of a [[basidiomycete]] stipe with an [[annulus |annulus]] and [[volva |volva]]In mycology a stipe refers to the stem or stalk-like feature supporting the cap of a mushroom. Like all tissues of the mushroom other than the hymenium, the stipe is composed of sterile hyphal...

 - for example: Polyporus badius

Polyporus badius

Polyporus badius is a species of mushroom in the genus Polyporus.-Description:Polyporus badius has a shiny red-brown to purple-black cap which can grow up to 20 cm across....

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Most of these fungi have white spore powder but members of the genus Abundisporus

Abundisporus

Abundisporus is a small genus of bracket fungi currently with six recognized species. They differ from other polypores in having colored rather than hyaline spores.-Species:*A. fuscopurpureus*A. pubertatis*A. quercicola*A. roseoalbus...

have colored spores and produce yellowish spore print

Spore print

thumb|300px|right|Making a spore print of the mushroom Volvariella volvacea shown in composite: mushroom cap laid on white and dark paper; cap removed after 24 hours showing pinkish-tan spore print...

s. Cystidia are absent.

Genera

Genera include:

Abundisporus

Abundisporus

Abundisporus is a small genus of bracket fungi currently with six recognized species. They differ from other polypores in having colored rather than hyaline spores.-Species:*A. fuscopurpureus*A. pubertatis*A. quercicola*A. roseoalbus...

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Amyloporiella

Amyloporiella

Amyloporiella is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Aurantiporus

Aurantiporus

Aurantiporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Australoporus

Australoporus

Australoporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Australoporus tasmanicus.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Austrolentinus

Austrolentinus

Austrolentinus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Austrolentinus tenebrosus.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Bridgeoporus —
Cerrena

Cerrena

Cerrena is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Cinereomyces

Cinereomyces

Cinereomyces is a genus of resupinate fungi in the family Polyporaceae, circumscribed by Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich in 1981. Species in the genus have a gray pore surface except for a whitish margin, and skeletal hyphae with gelatinized walls....

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Coriolopsis

Coriolopsis

Coriolopsis is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Cryptomphalina

Cryptomphalina

Cryptomphalina is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Cryptomphalina sulcata.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Cryptoporus

Cryptoporus

Cryptoporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Cystidiophorus

Cystidiophorus

Cystidiophorus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Cystidiophorus merulioideus, known from Asia and eastern Russia. The genus and species were described in 1963....

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Daedaleopsis

Daedaleopsis

Daedaleopsis is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. The widely distributed genus contains six species....

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Datronia

Datronia

Datronia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Dentocorticium

Dentocorticium

Dentocorticium is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Dichomitus

Dichomitus

Dichomitus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Diplomitoporus

Diplomitoporus

Diplomitoporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The Dictionary of the Fungi estimated the widespread genus to contain 11 species; several species have been described since then.-Species:...

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Earliella

Earliella

Earliella is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Earliella scabrosa....

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Echinochaete

Echinochaete

Echinochaete is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Epithele

Epithele

Epithele is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Epithelopsis

Epithelopsis

Epithelopsis is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Erastia

Erastia

Erastia is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Erastia salmonicolor.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Faerberia

Faerberia

Faerberia is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Faerberia carbonaria.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Favolus

Favolus

Favolus, or honeycomb fungus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The name comes from the Latin favus meaning honeycomb.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Flabellophora

Flabellophora

Flabellophora is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Frantisekia —
Fuscocerrena

Fuscocerrena

Fuscocerrena is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Fuscocerrena portoricensis.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Fomes

Fomes

Fomes is a genus of perennial woody fungi in the family Polyporaceae. Species are typically hoof-shaped . New growth each season is added to the margin, resulting in a downward extension of the hymenium. This often results in a zonate appearance of the upper surface, that is, marked by concentric...

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Globifomes

Globifomes

Globifomes is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Globifomes graveolens.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Grammothele

Grammothele

Grammothele is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Grammothelopsis

Grammothelopsis

Grammothelopsis is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Hapalopilus

Hapalopilus

Hapalopilus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus is widely distributed, and contains five species....

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Haploporus

Haploporus

Haploporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-Species:*Haploporus amarus X.L. Zeng & Y.P. Bai *Haploporus latisporus Juan Li & Y.C. Dai *Haploporus ljubarskii f. conifer Bondartsev...

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Heliocybe

Heliocybe

Heliocybe is an agaric genus closely allied to Neolentinus and the bracket fungus, Gloeophyllum, all of which cause brown rot of wood. Heliocybe sulcata, the type and sole species, is characterized by thumb-sized, tough, revivable, often dried, mushroom fruitbodies, with a tanned symmetric pileus...

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Hexagonia

Hexagonia

Hexagonia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in tropical regions, and contains 16 species.-Species:*Hexagonia apiaria*Hexagonia dermatiphora*Hexagonia hirta...

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Hymenogramme

Hymenogramme

Hymenogramme is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Hymenogramme javensis.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Laccocephalum

Laccocephalum

Laccocephalum is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Laetifomes

Laetifomes

Laetifomes is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Laetifomes flammans.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Lentinus

Lentinus

Lentinus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. There are 40 species in the genus, which have a widespread distribution, especially in subtropical regions....

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Lenzites

Lenzites

Lenzites is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Leptoporus

Leptoporus

Leptoporus is a fungal genus in the Polyporaceae family. It is monotypic, containing the single species Leptoporus mollis, widespread throughout north temperate areas....

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Lignosus

Lignosus

Lignosus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Lithopolyporales

Lithopolyporales

Lithopolyporales is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Lithopolyporales zeerabadensis.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Lopharia

Lopharia

Lopharia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 13 species....

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Loweporus

Loweporus

Loweporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Macrohyporia

Macrohyporia

Macrohyporia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Megasporoporia

Megasporoporia

Megasporoporia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Microporellus

Microporellus

Microporellus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Microporus

Microporus

Microporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 11 species.-Species:*M. affinis*M. atroalbus*M. atrovillosus*M. concinnus*M. incomptus*M. internuntius...

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Mollicarpus

Mollicarpus

Mollicarpus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae....

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Mycelithe

Mycelithe

Mycelithe is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae....

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Navisporus

Navisporus

Navisporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae....

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Neolentinus —
Nigrofomes

Nigrofomes

Nigrofomes is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae....

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Nigroporus

Nigroporus

Nigroporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1905....

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Oligoporus

Oligoporus

Oligoporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was described by German mycologist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1888. According to a 2008 estimate, Oligoporus contains 10 species.-Species:*Oligoporus africanus*Oligoporus alni...

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Pachykytospora

Pachykytospora

Pachykytospora is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae....

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Panus

Panus

Panus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae.-External links:*...

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Perenniporia

Perenniporia

Perenniporia is a cosmopolitan genus of bracket-forming or encrusting polypores containing about 60 currently recognized species. They are dimitic or trimitic with smooth, thick-walled basidiospores and cause a white rot in affected wood.-Species:...

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Phaeotrametes

Phaeotrametes

Phaeotrametes is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae....

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Piloporia

Piloporia

Piloporia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae....

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Podofomes

Podofomes

Podofomes is a genus of polypore fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus, which was circumscribed in Zdeněk Pouzar in 1966, contains three species....

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Polyporus

Polyporus

Polyporus is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. It is a genus used for the production of single cell proteins, sources of mixed protein extracted from pure or mixed cultures of algae, yeasts, fungi or bacteria used as a substitute for protein-rich foods, in human and animal feeds.The...

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Poria —
Porogramme

Porogramme

Porogramme is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Poronidulus

Poronidulus

Poronidulus is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. It is a monotypic genus, and contains the single species Poronidulus conchifer.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Pseudofavolus

Pseudofavolus

Pseudofavolus is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Pseudopiptoporus

Pseudopiptoporus

Pseudopiptoporus is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Pycnoporus

Pycnoporus

Pycnoporus is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Pyrofomes

Pyrofomes

Pyrofomes is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Royoporus

Royoporus

Royoporus is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Rubroporus

Rubroporus

Rubroporus is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Ryvardenia

Ryvardenia

Ryvardenia is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. It contains two species, Ryvardenia campyla and R. cretacea, formerly in the genus Polyporus....

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Skeletocutis

Skeletocutis

Skeletocutis is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. The widely distributed genus contains about 30 species.-Species:*Skeletocutis africana*Skeletocutis albocremea*Skeletocutis alutacea*Skeletocutis amorpha...

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Sparsitubus

Sparsitubus

Sparsitubus is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Sparsitubus nelumbiformis.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Spongipellis

Spongipellis

Spongipellis is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. The genus is widely distributed and contains an estimated eight species. The genus was circumscribed by French mycologist Narcisse Théophile Patouillard in 1887.-Species:*S. africana...

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Stiptophyllum

Stiptophyllum

Stiptophyllum is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Stiptophyllum erubescens.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Thermophymatospora

Thermophymatospora

Thermophymatospora is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Thermophymatospora fibuligera.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Tinctoporellus

Tinctoporellus

Tinctoporellus is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Trametes

Trametes

Trametes is a genus of fungi that is distinguished by a pileate basidiocarp, di- to trimitic hyphal systems, smooth non-dextrinoid spores, and a hymenium usually without true hymenial cystidia. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains about fifty species...

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Trametopsis

Trametopsis

Trametopsis is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Trametopsis cervina.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Trichaptum

Trichaptum

Trichaptum is a genus of fungus in the Polyporaceae family. The genus was first described by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1904.Species in the genus include:* Trichaptum abietinum* Trichaptum biforme* Trichaptum sector...

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Tyromyces

Tyromyces

Tyromyces is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family. There are about 30 species in the genus.The name means having a cheesy consistency.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Vanderbylia

Vanderbylia

Vanderbylia is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

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Wolfiporia

Wolfiporia

Wolfiporia is a genus of fungi in the Fomitopsidaceae family.-Species list:*Wolfiporia cartilaginea*Wolfiporia cocos*Wolfiporia curvispora*Wolfiporia dilatohypha*Wolfiporia extensa*Wolfiporia sulphurea-External links:...

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Xerotus

Xerotus

Xerotus is a genus of fungi in the Polyporaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...