Pycnoporus

Notes

Readily distinguished from the related genus Trametes by its bright orange bracket-shaped fruiting bodies, the colour similar on both upper and on lower poroid surface
One species present in New Zealand.

 

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Pycnoporus coccineus

Fruiting on wood of a broad range of hosts, often in exposed situations. Bright orange colour diagnostic, though sometimes fading with prolonged exposure to sunlight. Right-hand fruiting body showing the pore surface on the under-side..