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Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992

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Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb., Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 28 165 (1992)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Uncertain
New Zealand
Political Region
Type from Chile

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(Mont.) Rajchenb.
Mont.
Rajchenb.
1992
165
ICN
species
Rigidoporus concrescens

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concrescens

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Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992

Type: Lignicolous Fungi; Description: Basidiomata annual, solitary or closely grouped, leathery, usually pendulous, suspended from a short, vertical, central (occasionally lateral) stipe-like extension. Pilei disc- or trumpet-shaped when solitary, 5–15 mm in diameter, 1–2 mm thick; when closely packed, often fused at the margins and forming a continuous sheet attached by numerous stipe-like projections, up to 50 × 20 mm. Pileus surface often radiately striate, smooth or finely tomentose, cream grey or light brown, sometimes with concentric bands of light and dark grey, margin turned upwards, entire or finely toothed. Pore surface concave, often tearing into segments, white or cream; pores minute, 9–10 per mm. Context white or light brown, 0.2–0.5 mm thick. Hyphal system monomitic. Basidiospores globose, 4–5 μm in diameter, smooth, hyaline.
Distribution: Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Rangitikei, Wellington, Hawkes Bay, Marlborough.; 1st Record: Berkeley (1855: as Polyporus catervatus).
Significance: The cause of a white-pocket heart rot characterised by a honeycomb-like system of angular cavities separated by thin partitions of sound wood.; Host(s): Dacrydium cupressinum, Laurelia novaezelandiae, Nothofagus fusca, N. truncata, Prumnopitys taxifolia.

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Polyporus catervatus sensu G. Cunn. (1927)
Polyporus catervatus sensu G. Cunn. (1927)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Polyporus concrescens Mont. (1835)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Polyporus vernicifluus Berk. (1859) [1860]
Polyporus vernicifluus Berk. (1859) [1860]
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus catervatus sensu Hood et al. (1989)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. (1992)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. (1992)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. (1992)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. (1992)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. (1992)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. (1992)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. (1992)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb.
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. (1992)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. (1992)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. (1992)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. (1992)
Tyromyces catervatus sensu G.Cunn. (1965)
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992

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Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
Argentina
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
New Zealand
Bay of Plenty
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
New Zealand
Northland
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
New Zealand
Rangitikei
Rigidoporus concrescens (Mont.) Rajchenb. 1992
New Zealand
Waikato

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taxonomic status
Currently (2023) deposited sequences from Scion (Hood) indicate two distinct taxa in the Physiporinus clade with one related to P. cinerus and other related to P. sanguinolenta. There is no sequenced authentic material of R. concrescens from Chile for comparsion. [JAC]

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1cb1a248-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
scientific name
Names_Fungi
14 February 1995
4 March 2000
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