| Generic short diagnoses: Whitish, fleshy, monomitic polypores with a very variable hymenophore, from typically poroid to distinctly hydnoid; microscopically characterized by rounded to ellipsoid, thick-walled, inamyloid spores and absence of cystidia. |

| Illustration and © Jacob Heilmann-Clausen Bulgaria, JHC07-286 |  pore surface | Illustration and © Jacob Heilmann-Clausen Bulgaria, JHC07-286 |
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