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Perenniporia podocarpi

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Family
  
Polyporaceae

Phylum
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Polyporales

Genus
  
Perenniporia

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.

As with other members of its genus, it causes a white rot in affected host plants.

References

Perenniporia podocarpi Wikipedia