Fomes

Notes

Represented in New Zealand by a single common species on usually dead wood of many hosts, forming perennial, bracket-shaped to crust-like fruiting bodies, of solid texture but slightly flexible under pressure. Causing a brown rot and thought responsible for much of the brown rot seen in Nothofagus forests.

 

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Fomes hemitephrus
A common species in NZ native forests, along with Ganoderma cf. applanatum, but easily distinguished from the latter by a more rounded edge to the fruiting body, a white pore surface that remains white when bruised, a distinctive fruity