| Generic short diagnoses:
Reflexed-pileate or resupinate, tough and firmly attached corticioid with tomentose upper surface, an often purplish hymenium, smooth, inamyloid spores and enclosed and projecting cystidia. |
Species example: |

Chondrostereum purpureum - DK: purpur-lædersvamp UK: Silverleaf Fungus |
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, 9/7 1997 |
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