Byssomerulius corium (Pers.) Parmasto is a fungus in the Irpicaceae family, order Polyporales, kingdom Fungi. Not known to be toxic.

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Byssomerulius corium (Pers.) Parmasto

Byssomerulius corium (Pers.) Parmasto

Byssomerulius corium is a common widespread crust fungus in the Irpicaceae family, first described in 1801 and reclassified in 1967.

Family
Genus
Byssomerulius
Order
Polyporales
Class
Agaricomycetes

About Byssomerulius corium (Pers.) Parmasto

Byssomerulius corium (Pers.) Parmasto is a common crust fungus species belonging to the family Irpicaceae. It was first formally described as Thelephora corium by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1801. In 1967, Erast Parmasto reclassified it, and made it the type species of the newly circumscribed genus Byssomerulius. This fungus has a very widespread distribution, with recorded occurrences in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South, Central, and North America.

Photo: (c) Cindi Fitzgerald, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Cindi Fitzgerald · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Fungi Basidiomycota Agaricomycetes Polyporales Irpicaceae Byssomerulius

More from Irpicaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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