MycoKey : the genus Oxyporus

Generic short diagnoses: Resupinate to pileate, tough to hard but monomitic, perennial, whitish, white-rotting polypores with ± buffish pore layer, clampless hyphae, globose to broadly ellipsoid spores and cystidia of some kind.


Species example:


Oxyporus populinus - DK: "hat-poppelporesvamp" UK: Poplar Bracket
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-99.516

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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