Phellinus

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| image_caption = Phellinus pomaceus

| taxon = Phellinus

| authority = Quél. (1886)

| type_species = Phellinus igniarius

| type_species_authority = (L.) Quél. (1886)

| subdivision = See List of Phellinus species

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Phellinus is a genus of fungi in the family Hymenochaetaceae. Many species cause white rot. Fruit bodies, which are found growing on wood, are resupinate, sessile, and perennial. The flesh is tough and woody or cork-like, and brown in color. Clamp connections are absent, and the skeletal hyphae are yellowish-brown.

The name Phellinus means cork.

The species Phellinus ellipsoideus (previously Fomitiporia ellipsoidea) produced the largest ever fungal fruit body.

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Phellinus species produce a number of natural chemicals which are of interest to science. These include the natural phenol hispidin, bio-active styrylpyrones called phelligridins,{{Cite journal|last1=Lee|first1=In-Kyoung|last2=Han|first2=Myung-Suk|last3=Lee|first3=Myeong-Seok|last4=Kim|first4=Young-Sook|last5=Yun|first5=Bong-Sik|date=2010-09-15|title=Styrylpyrones from the medicinal fungus Phellinus baumii and their antioxidant properties|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20708931/|journal=Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters|volume=20|issue=18|pages=5459–5461|doi=10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.07.093|issn=1464-3405|pmid=20708931}} and bio-active isolates called phellinins.{{Cite journal|last1=Lee|first1=In-Kyoung|last2=Jung|first2=Jin-Young|last3=Kim|first3=Young-Ho|last4=Yun|first4=Bong-Sik|date=May 2010|title=Phellinins B and C, new styrylpyrones from the culture broth of Phellinus sp|journal=The Journal of Antibiotics|volume=63|issue=5|pages=263–266|doi=10.1038/ja.2010.25|issn=1881-1469|pmid=20339398|doi-access=free}}

Uses

In Australia, Indigenous Australians have used Phellinus fruit bodies medicinally. The smoke from burning fruit bodies was inhaled by those with sore throats. Scrapings from slightly charred fruit bodies were drunk with water to treat coughing, sore throats, "bad chests", fevers and diarrhoea. There is some uncertainty about which species of Phellinus were used.

Species

{{As of|2025|January}}, Index Fungorum lists 81 species in the genus Phellinus. Selected species include:

The widespread species Fulvifomes robiniae was formerly considered within Phellinus, but was moved to the genus Fulvifomes when that genus was resurrected based on morphological and molecular phylogenetic evidence.{{cite journal |last1=Salvador-Montoya |first1=Carlos A. |last2=Popoff |first2=Orlando F. |last3=Reck |first3=Mateus |last4=Drechsler-Santos |first4=Elisandro R. |title=Taxonomic delimitation of Fulvifomes robiniae (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) and related species in America: F. squamosus sp. nov. |journal=Plant Systematics and Evolution |date=1 March 2018 |volume=304 |issue=3 |pages=445–459 |doi=10.1007/s00606-017-1487-7 |url=https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/bitstream/handle/11336/89611/CONICET_Digital_Nro.e23c2e09-8bcb-4e13-b4ff-aba14feb61d9_A.pdf |access-date=11 January 2025}}

References

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{{cite journal |author=Dai Y-C, Cui B-K. |year=2011 |title=Fomitiporia ellipsoid has the largest fruiting body among the fungi |journal=Fungal Biology |volume=115 |issue=9 |pages=813–4 |pmid=21872178 |doi=10.1016/j.funbio.2011.06.008|bibcode=2011FunB..115..813D }}

{{cite journal |author=Cui B-K, Decock C. |year=2012 |title=Phellinus castanopsidis sp. nov. (Hymenochaetaceae) from southern China, with preliminary phylogeny based on rDNA sequences |journal=Mycological Progress |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=341–51 |doi=10.1007/s11557-012-0839-5|s2cid=17570036 }}

{{cite book |author=Halpern GM |year=2007 |chapter=Phellinus linteus |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FlrpouUh740C&pg=PA95 |page=95 |title=Healing Mushrooms |publisher=Square One Publishers |isbn=978-0-7570-0196-3}}

{{cite book |author=Kalotas A. |year=1996 |title=Introduction—Fungi in the Environment |series=Fungi of Australia |volume=1B |chapter=Aboriginal knowledge and use of fungi |location=Melbourne |publisher=CSIRO |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/fungi/aboriginal.html |isbn=978-0-643-05936-8 |pages=269–95}}

{{cite journal |author=Lee I-K, Yun B-S. |year=2007 |title=Highly oxygenated and unsaturated metabolites providing a diversity of hispidin class antioxidants in the medicinal mushrooms Inonotus and Phellinus |journal=Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry |volume=15 |issue=10 |pages=3309–14 |pmid=17387019 |doi=10.1016/j.bmc.2007.03.039}}

{{cite book |author=Ellis MB, Ellis JB. |chapter=Phellinus |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vowdIZ7GqD4C&pg=PA145 |pages=145–50 |title=Fungi Without Gills (Hymenomycetes and Gasteromycetes): An Identification Handbook |publisher=Chapman and Hall |location=London, UK |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-412-36970-4}}

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Category:Agaricomycetes genera