Coniferiporia (genus)
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fruiting bodies of Coniferiporia weirii (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): USDA Forest Service
Source: IPM Images
Author(s): USDA Forest Service
Source: IPM Images
Coniferiporia L.W. Zhou & Y.C. Dai 2016
This genus includes wood-inhabiting fungi which are pathogenic to conifer trees. They can invade healthy roots of living coniferous trees and kill the trees directly or in association with wind and bark beetles. The genus is related to the genus Phellinus, also a destructive wood-colonizing genus.
Type species: Coniferiporia qilianensis
Currently, the following species have been entered into the system:
