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Dyer's polypores
1 species
A genus of annual, brown-rot polypores that parasitize the roots and butt of conifers. The best-known species, Phaeolus schweinitzii, is a major conifer butt-rot pathogen and a popular dye fungus.
Fruiting bodies large, velvety, often stalked rosettes; pore surface yellow to greenish when young, bruising brown; flesh brown; KOH black; spores smooth, hyaline, inamyloid; hyphal system monomitic with simple septa.
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