Species
Pleurocybella porrigens (Angel's wings)
Pleurocybella porrigens. Photo: (c) Carita Bergman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
Pleurocybella porrigens is a species of fungus in the Marasmiaceae family. The species is widespread in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. P. porrigens, known as the angel wing, is a white-rot wood-decay fungus on conifer wood, particularly hemlock (genus Tsuga). The flesh is thin and fragile compared to the oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ssp.).
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Suborder: Pleurotineae
- Family: Phyllotopsidaceae
- Genus: Pleurocybella
- Species: Pleurocybella porrigens (Angel's wings)
- Genus: Pleurocybella
- Family: Phyllotopsidaceae
- Suborder: Pleurotineae
- Order: Agaricales (Common gilled mushrooms and allies)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
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