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Bjerkandera is a genus of wood-rotting fungi in the family Phanerochaetaceae.

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  1. KingdomFungi
  2. PhylumBasidiomycota
  3. ClassAgaricomycetes
  4. OrderPolyporales
  5. FamilyPhanerochaetaceae
Observations recorded78,098

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Bjerkandera is a genus of wood-rotting fungi in the family Phanerochaetaceae.

==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed by Finnish mycologist Petter Adolf Karsten in 1879. The type species, B. adusta, was originally described as Boletus adustus by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1787. The generic name honours Swedish naturalist Clas Bjerkander. Karsten included seven species in addition to the type: B. dichroa, B. amorpha, B. fumosa, B. kymatodes, B. diffusa, and B. isabellina. Most of those species have been since moved to different genera or synonymized.

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