''Fistulina'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
fungi
A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one ...
in the family
Fistulinaceae
The Fistulinaceae are a family of fungi, the best-known member of which is the beefsteak fungus '' Fistulina hepatica''. Molecular studies have now shown it to lie within the Agaricales
The Agaricales are an order (biology), order of fungi in ...
. Species in the genus cause a
brown rot of both dead and living
hardwood
Hardwood is wood from Flowering plant, angiosperm trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal ecosystem, boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostl ...
trees.
See also
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List of Agaricales genera
This is a list of fungal genus, genera in the order (biology), order Agaricales. The list follows Kalichman, Kirk & Matheny (2020), with more recent additions and amendments, as noted. The number of species in each family is taken from Catalogue of ...
References
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Fistulinaceae
Agaricales genera
Taxa named by Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard
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