Fomes hemitephrus

Fomes hemitephrus is a bracket fungus in the family Polyporaceae. First named Polyporus hemitephrus by English naturalist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1855, it was given its current name by the English mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke in 1885.^[1] The species is found in Australia^[2] and New Zealand, and is one of the most common polypores in those countries, causing a white rot on several tree species.^[3]

Fomes hemitephrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Polyporaceae
Genus:	Fomes
Species:	F. hemitephrus
Binomial name
Fomes hemitephrus (Berk.) Cooke (1885)
Synonyms
Polyporus hemitephrus Berk. (1855)

Historically, Fomes hemitephrus has been placed in several different genera, including Fomitopsis,^[4] Heterobasidion,^[5] and Trametes.^[6]