Perenniporia podocarpi

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]

Perenniporia podocarpi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Perenniporia
Species:
P. podocarpi
Binomial name
Perenniporia podocarpi
P.K.Buchanan & Hood (1992)

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

References

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  1. ^ 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.