MycoKey : the genus Gloeophyllum

Generic short diagnoses: Mostly orange to brown, tomentose, tough, brown-rotting polypores, with a brown to grey, poroid to lamellate hymenophore, cylindrical spores and fusiform or seta-like cystidia.


Species example:


Gloeophyllum abietinum - DK: gran-korkhat
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-84.227

The picture originates from the interactive internet version of MycoKey.
Here you will also find a larger picture along with a detailed generic description. The picture is also present on the MycoKey 2.0 DVD.

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