Ceriporia.
Fungi > Division Basidiomycota > Class Agaricomycetes > Order Polyporales > Family Irpicaceae.
They were previously in family Phanerochaetaceae.
There are around 50 to 80 species typically with brightly coloured fruit bodies that cause white rot.
The 2023 Brisbane census had 82 reports of Ceriporia spissa and 6 of Ceriporia mellea.
They all largely need microscopy to identify them.
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Ceriporia spissa.
The annual resupinate (crust) fruit bodies can cover large areas with individual bodies fusing.
The bright yellow, orange to brownish-orange crust can be a few mms thick.
Only occasionally is the edge of matted mycelia a different colour.
The surface bruises when damaged.
The pores are usually very small with up to 8 per mm.
J.F.
