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Thelephora
Thelephora is a genus of about 50 cosmopolitan ectomycorrhizal Basidiomycota fungi in Thelephoraceae (Thelephorales), type species Thelephora terrestris; leathery basidiocarps, tuberculate spores, common forest-nursery colonizer, some species edible, closely intermixed with Tomentella in phylogenies.
Thelephorales
Thelephorales (Corner ex Oberw.) is an order of Basidiomycota fungi with poroid, toothed, and corticioid fruiting bodies, mostly ectomycorrhizal; two families, Thelephoraceae and Bankeraceae, 21 genera, over 490 species; thelephoric acid stains greenish in KOH.
Tomentella
Tomentella, proposed by Persoon in 1799 and validly published in 1887, is a genus of crust-like basidiomycete fungi in the Thelephoraceae that forms ectomycorrhizas with many trees worldwide.
Tremella mesenterica
Tremella mesenterica, yellow brain or witches' butter, is a yellow gelatinous basidiomycete jelly fungus on dead hardwood, a mycoparasite of Peniophora crust fungi, type species of Tremella.
Wood-decay fungus
Wood-decay fungi (white rot, brown rot, soft rot) are fungi that depolymerize wood, causing rot. White rot degrades lignin, brown rot uses Fenton radicals, soft rot is ascomycete; classification is now seen as a continuum.