Families in the Aphyllophorales:

Auriscalpiaceae, Cantharellaceae, Clavariaceae, Corticiaceae, Echinodontiaceae, Fistulinaceae, Ganodermataceae, Gomphaceae, Hericiaceae, Hydnaceae, Hymenochaetaceae, Meruliaceae, Polyporaceae, Schizophyllaceae, Sparassidaceae; Stereaceae, Thelephoraceae

Polyporaceae: hymenophore tubular, not removeable from the pileus; basidiocarp dimitic or trimitic; no setae

Cryptoporus volvatus (left); Fomitopsis cajanderi (right).

Laetiporus sulphureus	Fomitopsis pinicola	Heterobasidion annosum	Phaeolus schweinitzii

Ganodermataceae: hymenophore porose; basidiocarp surface usually hard and often varnished; basidiospores brown, with spines located from the inner wall but not projecting beyond the outer wall.

Ganoderma applantum (the Artist's conk; the hymenophore bruises brown). Causes a white rot of downed conifers or a white rot of live trees which have been injured.

Make a squash mount of a small amount of the hymenophore. Can you determine the spore shape and ornamentation?

classification for Basidiomycotina

rusts and smuts, jelly fungi (tremellales), jelly fungi (dacrymycetales), agaricales, aphyllophorales, gasteromycetes

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina