Perenniporia podocarpi is a species of resupinate (encrusting) polypore. It occurs widely but uncommonly on the New Zealand endemic podocarps Dacrydium cupressinum and Prumnopitys taxifolia. Basidiocarps are dimitic and grow up to 9 cm across, thick and cushion-like with a distinctive white or very pale cream spore surface with large pores. The basidiospores are extremely large for the genus, up to 27 μm in length.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Polyporaceae |
| Genus: | Perenniporia |
| Species: | P. podocarpi
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| Binomial name | |
| Perenniporia podocarpi P.K.Buchanan & Hood (1992)
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As with other members of its genus, P. podocarpi causes a white rot in affected host plants.
References edit
- ^ Buchanan, P.K.; Hood, I.A. (1992). "New species and new records of Aphyllophorales (Basidiomycetes) from New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 30 (1): 95–112. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1992.10412888.
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