Species

Ptychogaster albus (Powderpuff bracket)

Ptychogaster albus. Photo: (c) Christian Schwarz, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

The Polyporales are an order of about 1800 species of fungi in the division Basidiomycota. The order includes some (but not all) polypores as well as many corticioid fungi and a few agarics (mainly in the genus Lentinus). Many species within the order are saprotrophic, most of them wood-rotters. Some genera, such as Ganoderma and Fomes, contain species that attack living tissues and then continue to degrade the wood of their dead hosts. Those of economic…

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