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Required Wood Decay Fungi; species with a irpiciform or porose hymenophore (Pycnoporus, Trametes)

list of genera of wood decay fungi

Pycnoporus alboluteus. Picture to the left shows an irpiciform hymenophore. Sporocarps annual, typically resupinate and found on the undersides of down and dead conifers, particularly species of Abies. P. alboluteus has a light yellowish, irpiciform hymenophore. It is one of the two species which typically rot down conifers in elevations above 5000 feet. The second species is Oligoporous leucospongia which is characterized by its soft, cotton-like pileus surface and whitish pores, small in diameter.

Trametes versicolor, 'turkey tails'; sporocarps annual, leathery in consistency, pileate and sessile to effuso-reflexed. This species is one of the most abundant polypores to be found on down and dead hardwoods in which it typically causes a white spongy rot. The pileus is hairy and typically with zones of different colors; the pileal surface is often green in color because of the algae which grow among the hairs. The hymenophore is white and porose. Trametes hirsuta. Sporocarps annual, pileate and sessile. Pileus with a light grey to whitish-grey pileus which is uniformly colored and with dense hairs. The rot show above is a white spongy rot which typically has zone lines.


Trametes versicolor, 'turkey tails'; sporocarps annual, leathery in consistency, pileate and sessile to effuso-reflexed. This species is one of the most abundant polypores to be found on down and dead hardwoods in which it typically causes a white spongy rot. The pileus is hairy and typically with zones of different colors; the pileal surface is often green in color because of the algae which grow among the hairs. The hymenophore is white and porose.		Trametes hirsuta. Sporocarps annual, pileate and sessile. Pileus with a light grey to whitish-grey pileus which is uniformly colored and with dense hairs. The rot show above is a white spongy rot which typically has zone lines.