MycoKey : the genus Phaeolus

Generic short diagnoses: Big, tomentose, annual, mostly stipitate, brown-rotting polypore, fruiting from conifer roots, trunks or stumps, rarely from hardwood, with sulphur yellow margin on fresh specimens; with ellipsoid spores and projecting cystidia.


Species example:


Phaeolus schweinitzii - DK: brunporesvamp UK: Dyer's Mazegill
Photo and © Thomas Læssøe
Russia (Kamchatka), TL-4699

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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