Rhodonia
Sign in to saveRhodonia is a genus of fungal crust fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceae. The species in the genus are species of brown rot, found in China, Europe, and North America, where it grows on decaying conifer wood.
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- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderPolyporales
- FamilyPolyporaceae
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Rhodonia is a genus of fungal crust fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceae. The species in the genus are species of brown rot, found in China, Europe, and North America, where it grows on decaying conifer wood.
==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish mycologist Tuomo Niemelä in 2005 to contain the species Rhodonia placenta.
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