Albatrellus ovinus

Albatrellus ovinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Albatrellaceae
Genus: Albatrellus
Species:
A. ovinus
Binomial name
Albatrellus ovinus
(Schaeff.) Kotl. & Pouzar
Synonyms
  • Scutiger ovinus (Schaeff.) Murrill
  • Polyporus ovinus (Schaeff.) Fr.
Albatrellus ovinus
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Pores on hymenium
Cap is convex or flat
Hymenium is decurrent
Stipe is bare
Spore print is white
Ecology is mycorrhizal
Edibility is edible

Albatrellus ovinus, commonly known as sheep polypore, is a terrestrial fungus found in western North America, and Northern Europe. Although known as Sheep Polypore, this fungus is not phylogenetically related to Polyporales (shelf fungi).

It is very closely related to the rarer A. subrubescens,[1] from which it may be distinguished microscopically by the amyloid spore wall.

  1. ^ Hibbett DS, Pine EM, Langer E, Langer G, Donoghue MJ (1997). "Evolution of gilled mushrooms and puffballs inferred from ribosomal DNA sequences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 94 (22): 12002–6. Bibcode:1997PNAS...9412002H. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.22.12002. PMC 23683. PMID 9342352.

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