Hydnomerulius

Hydnomerulius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Boletales
Family:
Paxillaceae
Genus:
Hydnomerulius

Jarosch & Besl (2001)
Type species
Hydnomerulius pinastri
(Fr.) Jarosch & Besl (2001)
Synonyms[1]

Hydnum pinastri Fr. (1814)
Sistotrema pinastri (Fr.) Pers. (1825)
Acia pinastri (Fr.) P.Karst. (1979)
Odontia pinastri (Fr.) Quél. (1880)
Merulius pinastri (Fr.) Burt (1917)
Gyrophana pinastri (Fr.) Bourdot & Galzin (1923)
Serpula pinastri (Fr.) W.B.Cooke (1957)
Leucogyrophana pinastri (Fr.) Ginns & Weresub (1976)

Hydnomerulius pinastri is a fungal species of the monotypic genus Hydnomerulius within the Paxillaceae family.  H. pinastri is a saprophyte whose nutritional mode creates a brown rot through H2O2 decay of cellulose and hemi-cellulose.[2] This species has not been thoroughly studied outside of taxonomic attempts to place it within the fungal tree. As such, its ecological role beyond as a wood decaying agent is unclear at this time. H. pinastri may be referred to colloquially as "spiny dry rot" or "spiny dry rot fungus".

  1. ^ "Hydnomerulius pinastri (Fr.) Jarosch & Besl 2001". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
  2. ^ Mycorrhizal Genomics Initiative Consortium; Kohler, Annegret; Kuo, Alan; Nagy, Laszlo G; Morin, Emmanuelle; Barry, Kerrie W; Buscot, Francois; Canbäck, Björn; Choi, Cindy; Cichocki, Nicolas; Clum, Alicia (April 2015). "Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists". Nature Genetics. 47 (4): 410–415. doi:10.1038/ng.3223. hdl:1942/18722. ISSN 1061-4036. PMID 25706625.