Hymenochaetae: hymenium smooth
but cracked; basidiomes pileate and sessile (species on the left)
or effuso-reflexed (species on the right). Species decay wood
that has fallen.
Families in the Aphyllophorales:
Auriscalpiaceae, Cantharellaceae, Clavariaceae, Corticiaceae, Echinodontiaceae, Fistulinaceae, Ganodermataceae, Gomphaceae, Hericiaceae, Hydnaceae, Hymenochaetaceae, Meruliaceae, Polyporaceae, Schizophyllaceae, Sparassidaceae; Stereaceae, Thelephoraceae
HYMENOCHAETACEAE: hymenophore smooth or porose; hymenium with thick wall, pointed cells (setae) which turn black in KOH; setal hyphae often present in the mycelium; basidiocarp pileate and sessile, effuso-reflexed, or resupinate.
Hymenochaetae: hymenium smooth
but cracked; basidiomes pileate and sessile (species on the left)
or effuso-reflexed (species on the right). Species decay wood
that has fallen.
Phellinus,
the species of which caused heartrot of live conifers or root-rot
of live conifers; hymenophore porose. The two species to the left
form perennial basidiomes on live trees. To the left is
Phellinus arctostaphyli found on species of manzanita;
in the middle is Phellinus chrysoloma found on species
of Abies; to the right is Phellinus weirii which
causes a root rot of Douglas fir.
STEREACEAE: hymenophore smooth; basidiomes effuso-reflexed or resupinate, dimitic or rarely trimitic; spores smooth, hyaline, amyloid or inamyloid. Typically the basidiomes have a complicated anatomy with a pileipellisand a context.
Stereum. Examples show effuso-reflexed
basidiomes. Left: shows smooth hymenophore on the effused
portions and the hirsute pileus on the reflexed parts. Second
and third illustrations show smooth hymenophore and
the pileus is not visible. Right: smooth hymenophore or
right specimen; fibrillose pileus on left specimen.
classification for Basidiomycotina
rusts and smuts, jelly fungi (tremellales), jelly fungi (dacrymycetales), agaricales, aphyllophorales, gasteromycetes
genus and species
introductory features for Basidiomycotina