''Phellinus tremulae'', the aspen bracket, is a species of
polypore fungus in the family
Hymenochaetaceae
The ''Hymenochaetaceae'' are a family (biology), family of fungi in the order Hymenochaetales. The family contains several species that are implicated in many diseases of broad-leaved and coniferous trees, causing heart rot, canker and root disea ...
that grows on ''
Populus tremula''
and on
trembling aspen in Canada. The species was first described as ''Fomes igniarius'' f. ''tremulae'' by
Appollinaris Semenovich Bondartsev in 1935. It causes the disease
Aspen trunk rot.
References
tremulae
Fungi described in 1953
Fungus species
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