Pyrrhoderma noxium

Pyrrhoderma noxium
Fruiting bodies
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Hymenochaetales
Family: Hymenochaetaceae
Genus: Pyrrhoderma
Species:
P. noxium
Binomial name
Pyrrhoderma noxium
(Corner) L.W. Zhou & Y.C. Dai (2018)
Synonyms
  • Fomes noxius Corner, (1932)
  • Phellinidium noxium (Corner) Bondartseva & S. Herrera, (1992)
  • Phellinus noxius (Corner) G.Cunn., (1965)

Pyrrhoderma noxium is a species of plant pathogen. It attacks a wide range of tropical plants, and is the cause of brown root rot disease. It has been described as "an aggressive and destructive pathogen". The pathogen invades roots with contact between roots of a potential host with the substrate on which the fungus is growing.