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Skeletocutis
Skeletocutis is a genus of about 40 species of poroid fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, although most species are found in the Northern Hemisphere. It causes a white rot in a diverse array of woody substrates, and the fruit bodies grow as a crust on the surface of the decaying wood. Sometimes the edges of the crust are turned outward to form rudimentary bracket-like caps.
Skeletocutis is primarily distinguished from similar genera of wood-rotting fungi by microscopic features, especially by the sausage-shaped to ellipsoid spores, and spiny crystals covering certain hyphae in the pore tissue. The genus was circumscribed by Czech mycologists František Kotlaba and Zdenek Pouzar in 1958, with Skeletocutis amorpha as the type species.
47 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Skeletocutis amorpha
speciesSkeletocutis amorpha
Skeletocutis nivea
complexSkeletocutis nivea
Skeletocutis carneogrisea
speciesSkeletocutis carneogrisea
Skeletocutis odora
speciesSkeletocutis odora
Skeletocutis papyracea
speciesSkeletocutis papyracea
Skeletocutis brevispora
speciesSkeletocutis brevispora
Skeletocutis biguttulata
speciesSkeletocutis biguttulata
Skeletocutis lilacina
speciesSkeletocutis lilacina
Skeletocutis stramentica
speciesSkeletocutis stramentica
Skeletocutis chrysella
speciesSkeletocutis chrysella
Skeletocutis stellae
speciesSkeletocutis stellae
Skeletocutis percandida
speciesSkeletocutis percandida
Skeletocutis novae-zelandiae
speciesSkeletocutis novae-zelandiae
Skeletocutis jelicii
speciesSkeletocutis jelicii
Skeletocutis sp. 'HI01'
speciesSkeletocutis sp. 'HI01'
Skeletocutis kuehneri
speciesSkeletocutis kuehneri
Skeletocutis sp. 'CA02'
speciesSkeletocutis sp. 'CA02'
Skeletocutis sp. 'MI01'
speciesSkeletocutis sp. 'MI01'
Skeletocutis sp. 'MI02'
speciesSkeletocutis sp. 'MI02'
Skeletocutis diluta
speciesSkeletocutis diluta
Skeletocutis subodora
speciesSkeletocutis subodora
Skeletocutis futilis
speciesSkeletocutis futilis
Skeletocutis exilis
speciesSkeletocutis exilis
Skeletocutis alutacea
speciesSkeletocutis alutacea
Skeletocutis sp. 'PR01'
speciesSkeletocutis sp. 'PR01'
Skeletocutis sp. 'CA03'
speciesSkeletocutis sp. 'CA03'
Skeletocutis sp. 'NB01'
speciesSkeletocutis sp. 'NB01'
Skeletocutis tschulymica
speciesSkeletocutis tschulymica
Skeletocutis friata
speciesSkeletocutis friata
Skeletocutis yunnanensis
speciesSkeletocutis yunnanensis
Skeletocutis bambusicola
speciesSkeletocutis bambusicola
Skeletocutis substellae
speciesSkeletocutis substellae
Skeletocutis pseudo-odora
speciesSkeletocutis pseudo-odora
Skeletocutis inflata
speciesSkeletocutis inflata
Skeletocutis fimbriata
speciesSkeletocutis fimbriata
Skeletocutis oceanica
speciesSkeletocutis oceanica
Skeletocutis subdiluta
speciesSkeletocutis subdiluta
Skeletocutis azorica
speciesSkeletocutis azorica
Skeletocutis brunneomarginata
speciesSkeletocutis brunneomarginata
Skeletocutis subvulgaris
speciesSkeletocutis subvulgaris
Skeletocutis sinuosa
speciesSkeletocutis sinuosa
Skeletocutis borealis
speciesSkeletocutis borealis
Skeletocutis sajanensis
speciesSkeletocutis sajanensis
Skeletocutis sp. 'CA01'
speciesSkeletocutis sp. 'CA01'
Skeletocutis sp. 'CA04'
speciesSkeletocutis sp. 'CA04'
Skeletocutis subincarnata
speciesSkeletocutis subincarnata
Skeletocutis roseola
speciesSkeletocutis roseola
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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