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Phellorinia

genus of fungi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionNov 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ5225720 ↗
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Phellorinia is a genus of fungi in the family Phelloriniaceae of the order Agaricales. The genus is monotypic, and contains the single species Phellorinia herculeana, described by English naturalist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1843 as P. inquinans. This single species has currently (February 2021) 24 synonyms, and takes its epithet from the basionym Scleroderma herculeanum Pers.

The spores were used for body decoration by Australian Aboriginal groups in desert areas.

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This entry incorporates text from “Phellorinia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.