Perenniporia podocarpi

Taxobox
name = "Perenniporia podocarpi"
regnum = Fungi
phylum = Basidiomycota
classis = Agaricomycetes
ordo = Polyporales
familia = Polyporaceae
genus = "Perenniporia"
species = "P. podocarpi"
binomial = "Perenniporia podocarpi"
binomial_authority = Buchanan & Hood, 1992

"Perenniporia podocarpi" is a species of resupinate (encrusting) polypore. It occurs widely but uncommonly on the New Zealand endemic podocarps "Dacrydium cupressinum" and "Prumnopitys taxifolia". Basidiocarps are dimitic and grow up to 9 cm across, thick and cushion-like with a distinctive white or very pale cream spore surface with large pores. The basidiospores are extremely large for the genus, up to 27 μm in length.

As with other members of its genus, it causes a white rot in affected host plants.

References

* [http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjb/1992/9.php New species and new records of Aphyllophorales (Basidiomycetes) from New Zealand]