Tyromyces chioneus

*Tyromyces chioneus*
Tyromyces chioneus
Mycological characteristics
	Pores on hymenium
	No distinct cap
	Hymenium attachment is irregular or not applicable
	Lacks a stipe
	Spore print is white
	Ecology is saprotrophic
	Edibility is unknown

Tyromyces chioneus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Incrustoporiaceae
Genus:	Tyromyces
Species:	T. chioneus
Binomial name
	Tyromyces chioneus; (Fr.) P.Karst. (1881)
Synonyms
	Boletus candidus Pers. (1801); Polyporus chioneus Fr. (1815); Polyporus albellus Peck (1878); Bjerkandera chionea (Fr.) P.Karst. (1881); Leptoporus chioneus (Fr.) Quél. (1886); Polystictus chioneus (Fr.) Gillot & Lucand (1890); Ungularia chionea (Fr.) Lázaro Ibiza (1916); Leptoporus albellus (Peck) Bourdot & L.Maire (1920); Leptoporus albellus subsp. chioneus (Fr.) Bourdot & Galzin (1925); Leptoporus lacteus f. albellus (Peck) Pilát (1938); Tyromyces albellus (Peck) Bondartsev& Singer (1941);

Tyromyces chioneus, commonly known as the white cheese polypore, is a species of polypore fungus. A widely distributed fungus, it has a circumpolar distribution, in temperate boreal pine forests, of Asia, Europe, and North America, causes white rot in dead hardwood trees, especially birch.