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Smoky polypores
1 species
White-rot bracket fungi with thin, often overlapping caps and a gray to blackish pore surface of tiny pores. Bjerkandera adusta is common worldwide and studied for pollutant-degrading enzymes.
Caps thin, whitish to tan; pore surface gray to black, pores small (about 6-7 per mm in B. adusta); flesh pale; spores small, smooth, inamyloid; hyphal system monomitic with clamps.
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