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Fulvifomes
Sign in to saveFulvifomes is a genus of fungi in the family Hymenochaetaceae. It was formerly considered synonymous with the genus Phellinus, but it was resurrected based on morphological and molecular phylogenetic evidence.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderHymenochaetales
- FamilyHymenochaetaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 62
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Hymenochaetaceae
- Collections
- UFPE, NCU, UFRGS, MEL, FLAS, ARIZ
- Recorded in
- Brasil, United States, Australia
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description
- Etymology
- Taxonomy
- References
Fulvifomes is a genus of fungi in the family Hymenochaetaceae. It was formerly considered synonymous with the genus Phellinus, but it was resurrected based on morphological and molecular phylogenetic evidence.
==Description== Fulvifomes is a characterized by a dimitic hyphal system, an absence of setae, coloured basidiospores, and pileate basidiomata.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fulvifomes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.