list of genera of wood decay fungi

Cryptoporus volvatus; sporocarps pileate and sessile with white, egg-shell-like pileus, brown porose hymenophore with a flap-like covering (a 'volva'); causes a hard grey saprot of dying and dead conifers; often associated with insects and with a species-specific insect found in the pouch created by the volva.

Bjerkandera adusta; sporocarps annual, effuso-reflexed to resupinate, somewhat fleshy with dark gray porose hymenophore and light grey, somewhat hairy pileus; causes white spongy rot of dead hardwoods, particularly laurel and alder.

Ganoderma applanatum, the 'artist's conk'; sporocarps perennial, pileal and sessile with dark brown, dull, pileus with crust-like surface, light brownish-white porose hymenophore which stains dark brown when bruised; causes a white pocket rot of dead or down conifers (center) and a white spongy rot of dead or down hardwoods (to the left; zone-lines evident); spores are brown as seen on the ground under the sporocarps in the right picture. This species can grown on live trees with the infection court being dead or dying branches.

Ganoderma oregonense species-complex; sporocarps pileate and sessile to laterally stipitate, annual with a lacquer-like pileus surface that is thin and like an egg-shell in consistency and bright reddish brown to purple-brown in color; causes a white pocket rot of hardwoods with the rotted wood soft and water-soaked.