Picipes badius
| Picipes badius | |
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| Specimens showing light coloring (above) and darker pigmentation (below) a few days later | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Polyporaceae |
| Genus: | Picipes |
| Species: | P. badius |
| Binomial name | |
| Picipes badius (Pers.) Zmitr. & Kovalenko (2016) | |
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| Picipes badius | |
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| Pores on hymenium | |
| Cap is convex or umbilicate | |
| Stipe is bare | |
| Spore print is white | |
| Ecology is saprotrophic | |
| Edibility is inedible | |
Picipes badius (formerly Royoporus badius), commonly known as the black-footed polypore or black-leg, is a species of fungus in the family Polyporaceae. It has a dark brown or reddish-brown cap that reaches a diameter of 25 cm (10 in), and a stipe that is often completely black or brown at the top and black at the base. It causes a white rot of hardwoods and conifers in temperate areas of Eurasia and North America.