Rigidoporus microporus is a plant pathogen, known to cause white root rot disease on various tropical crops, such as cacao, cassava, tea, with economical importance on the para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis).
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Rigidoporus microporus being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Meripilus lineatus
- Rigidoporus laetus
- Fomitopsis feei
- Microporus affinis
- Trametes polyzona
- Earliella scabrosa
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Hymenochaetales
- Family
- Rigidoporaceae
- Genus
- Rigidoporus
- Species
- Rigidoporus microporus
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