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Phellinus Quél. 1886

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Phellinus Quél. (1886)
Phellinus Quél. 1886

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New Zealand
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Quél.
Quél.
1886
172
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Phellinus Quél. 1886
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Phellinus

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Phellinus Quél. 1886

Wood decay fungi with at least 16 species in NZ, often difficult to distinguish in field with microscopic features most important for diagnosis. Fruiting body varies in different species from wood-hard brackets to thin, hard crusts, always brown, and with lower surface of pores. Some species are annual, others perennial. Common on wood of many different kinds of tree. Some bracket-shaped species are easily confused at a distance with Ganoderma species, although lower surface of Phellinus species is never white and never with brown spore deposit beneath or on top of fruiting body. The hoof-shaped fruiting bodies of P. robustus make this the most distinctive species of Phellinus.

Polypore fungi with crust-like or bracket-shaped basidiocarps, causing a white rot on fallen wood.

About 15 species have been reported from New Zealand, only those listed below have descriptions or images available from NZFungi.

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Phellinus Quél. 1886
Phellinus Quél. (1886)

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Phellinus Quél. 1886
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1cb198e3-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
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1 January 2001
1 June 2012
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