🍄 Family

Incrustoporiaceae

4 species · Fungi

Fungi › Basidiomycota › Agaricomycetes › Polyporales › Incrustoporiaceae

Tyromyces pulcherrimus (Rodway) G.Cunn.

Tyromyces pulcherrimus is an inedible bracket fungus with red flesh that grows as a white rot on hardwood tree heartwood.

Tyromyces chioneus (Fr.) P.Karst.

Tyromyces chioneus is a bracket fungus that causes white rot on dead hardwoods, is inedible, and has a sesquiterpene with anti-HIV activity in lab tests.

Tyromyces galactinus (Berk.) J.Lowe

Tyromyces galactinus is a North American poroid polypore pathogen that causes white rot in broad-leaved trees.

Skeletocutis amorpha (Fr.) Kotl. & Pouzar

Skeletocutis amorpha is a widely distributed white rot fungus that grows mostly on dead conifer wood.

Related Families

Polyporaceae 56 species Fomitopsidaceae 12 species Meruliaceae 8 species Laetiporaceae 7 species Irpicaceae 6 species Phanerochaetaceae 6 species Meripilaceae 4 species Sparassidaceae 4 species

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