Snow-White Crust
Plicatura nivea (Fr.) P.Karst.
A fungal species, order Agaricales. Recorded under 8 common names across 7 languages.
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Agaricales
- Genus
- Plicatura
What it is called
- English
- Snow-White Crust
- Swedish
- algröppa
- Norwegian
- kvit rukkesopp, hvit rynkesopp
- Finnish
- leppäpoimukka
- German
- Schneeweißer Adernzähling
- Latvian
- Sniegbaltā kroklapene
- Russian
- Пликатура белоснежная
Also known as
Older literature may use these names. They all refer to the same species.
- Gyroporus niveus (Fr.) Quél.
- Merulius niveus Fr.
- Merulius rimosus Berk. ex Cooke
- Plicatura alni Peck
- Sesia nivea (Fr.) Kuntze
- Trogia alni (Peck) Peck
Others in Plicatura
Classification and names from the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (CC-BY 4.0).
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