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Phellodon melaleucus

Phellodon melaleucus
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Thelephorales
Family: Bankeraceae
Genus: Phellodon
Species: P. melaleucus
Binomial name
Phellodon melaleucus
(Sw. ex Fr.) P.Karst. (1881)
Synonyms
  • Hydnum melaleucum Sw. ex Fr. (1815)
  • Hydnellum melaleucum (Sw. ex Fr.) P.Karst. (1879)

Phellodon melaleucus, commonly known as the grey tooth, is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. It was originally described by Elias Magnus Fries in 1815 as a species of Hydnum. In 1881, Petter Karsten included it as one of the original three species in his newly circumscribed genus Phellodon. The fungus is widely distributed in Europe and North America, where it associates mycorrhizally with a wide range of host trees. It is considered vulnerable in Switzerland.



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