False Turkeytail
Stereum ostrea (Blume & T.Nees) Fr.
A species in the family Stereaceae, order Russulales. Recorded under 2 common names across 2 languages.
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Russulales
- Family
- Stereaceae
- Genus
- Stereum
What it is called
- English
- False Turkeytail
- Welsh
- Cynffon Twrci Ffug
Also known as
Older literature may use these names. They all refer to the same species.
- Haematostereum australe (Lloyd) Z.T.Guo
- Stereum australe Lloyd
- Stereum boryanum (Fr.) Sacc.
- Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.
- Stereum hirsutum f. fasciatum (Schwein.) Pilát
- Stereum leichhardtianum (Lév.) Sacc.
- Stereum leichkardtianum (Lév.) Sacc., 1888
- Stereum perlatum Berk.
- Stereum pictum Berk.
- Stereum sprucei Berk.
- Stereum sprucei var. cinereum Henn.
- Stereum tasmanicum Sacc. & P.Syd.
- Stereum zebra R.Heim & Malençon
- Thelephora boryana Fr.
- Thelephora fasciata Schwein.
- Thelephora leichhardtiana Lév.
- Thelephora ostrea Blume & T.Nees
- Thelephora versicolor subsp. fasciata (Schwein.) Fr., 1828
Classification and names from the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (CC-BY 4.0).
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