🍄 Family

Meripilaceae

4 species · Fungi

Fungi › Basidiomycota › Agaricomycetes › Polyporales › Meripilaceae

Meripilus sumstinei is an edible North American polypore that grows in large clumps near hardwood tree structures.

Meripilus giganteus is a large northern hemisphere polypore fungus that causes root rot in broadleaf trees.

Rigidoporus microporus is an economically important plant pathogen that causes white root rot in tropical crops, especially para rubber trees.

Rigidoporus laetus is a South Australian polypore pathogen that causes white rot in Eucalyptus.

Related Families

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

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