Rigidoporus laetus is a species of polypore fungus in the family Meripilaceae. It was originally described in 1883 as Polyporus laetus by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke. Peter Buchanan and Leif Ryvarden transferred it to Rigidoporus in 1988. Found in south Australia, the fungus is a plant pathogen that causes white rot in Eucalyptus.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Rigidoporus laetus 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
- Rigidoporus microporus
- Ryvardenia campyla
- Meripilus lineatus
- Inonotus albertinii
- Inonotus cuticularis
- Aurantiporus croceus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Hymenochaetales
- Family
- Rigidoporaceae
- Genus
- Rigidoporus
- Species
- Rigidoporus laetus
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