| 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 - habitat |
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen Denmark, JHP-06.239 |
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