Abundisporus quercicola

Abundisporus quercicola is a species of bracket fungus that grows on living oaks in temperate forests in the foothills of the Himalaya (People's Republic of China). The fruit bodies are perennial, grey to black above with concentric markings and white below. The fungus grows to 7 cm wide and 5 cm thick, projecting up to 5 cm from the substrate. The basidiospores are yellow.[1]

Abundisporus quercicola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Abundisporus
Species:
A. quercicola
Binomial name
Abundisporus quercicola
Y.C.Dai (2002)

References

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  1. ^ Dai, Yu-Cheng; Niemelä, Tuomo; Kinnunen, Juha (2002). "The polypore genera Abundisporus and Perenniporia (Basidiomycota) in China, with notes on Haploporus" (PDF). Annales Botanici Fennici. 39 (3): 169–182. JSTOR 23726654.