Small, tough and leathery fruiting bodies attached laterally directly to the substrate. Characterised by the unusual gills appearaing split or grooved along their length. Spore print white.

A single species in New Zealand, the cosmopolitan Schizophyllum commune.

Common throughout the country, often in exposed situations and on large pieces of fallen wood, for example wind-blown trees on the margins of forests. Whether or not this fungus is indigenous to New Zealand is unknown.

Saprobe on wood. Tough, leathery fruiting bodies attached laterally with no stipe. Gills longitudinally split or grooved. One species in New Zealand.

Pileus thin, without flesh, dry, flaccid and tough, tomentose, sessile, fan-shaped; gills radiating from the point of attachment, forking, splitting along the edge, the split portions curving away from the line of splitting, dry; spores hyaline or tinged with brownish-purple.

A small but cosmopolitan genus, most abundant in tropical and subtropical countries. Characterized by the thin dry substance of the entire fungus and the gills splitting along the edge. Growing on wood.