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Thin, leathery bracket fungi in Hymenochaetales with violet to purplish pore surfaces when fresh that often break up into teeth, causing white rot of wood. Formerly classified in Polyporaceae; a 2023 revision split the genus, moving T. biforme to Pallidohirschioporus, a change not yet widely adopted.
Thin, leathery, often overlapping brackets or crusts with pale, zoned caps; pore surface violet to lilac when fresh, fading to buff, often breaking into teeth; spores cylindric to allantoid, smooth, inamyloid; hyphal system dimitic.
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