Phlebia radiata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Polyporales |
Family: | Meruliaceae |
Genus: | Phlebia |
Species: | P. radiata
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Binomial name | |
Phlebia radiata Fr. (1821)
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Phlebia radiata, commonly known as the wrinkled crust,[1] is a common species of crust fungus in the family Meruliaceae. It is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere. It grows as a wrinkled, orange to pinkish waxy crust on the decaying wood of coniferous and deciduous trees, in which it causes a white rot.[2] The fungus was first described scientifically in 1821 by Elias Magnus Fries.[3]