Climacodon pulcherrimus

Climacodon pulcherrimus is a white rot–causing species of tooth fungus in the family Phanerochaetaceae.

Climacodon pulcherrimus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Phanerochaetaceae
Genus:	Climacodon
Species:	C. pulcherrimus
Binomial name
Climacodon pulcherrimus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Nikol. (1961)
Synonyms
Hydnum pulcherrimum Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1849) Hydnum gilvum Berk. (1851) Hydnum uleanum Henn. (1897) Steccherinum pulcherrimum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Banker (1906) Hydnum kauffmani Peck (1907)[1] Creolophus pulcherrimus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Banker (1913) Hydnum australe Lloyd (1919) Dryodon pulcherrimum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Pilát (1934) Donkia pulcherrima (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Pilát (1937)

The species was first described as a species of Hydnum by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1849.^[2] T. L. Nikolajeva transferred it to its current genus, Climacodon, in 1962,^[3] but research published in 2007 suggests it should be placed in a different genus.^[4]

It is widely distributed in subtropical and tropical areas, where it grows on decomposing hardwoods, causing a white rot.^[5]