Maze polypores
1 species
White-rot bracket fungi with hairy, zoned caps and maze-like to toothed pore surfaces. Cerrena unicolor is the symbiont of horntail wasps and a commercial source of laccase.
Caps hairy, zoned, often algae-covered; pore surface maze-like, becoming tooth-like; flesh with a dark line under the cap surface in C. unicolor; spores smooth, inamyloid; hyphal system trimitic.
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