Echinodontium tinctorium
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| Echinodontium tinctorium | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Basidiomycetes |
| Order: | Russulales |
| Family: | Echinodontiaceae |
| Genus: | Echinodontium |
| Species: | E. tinctorium |
| Binomial name | |
| Echinodontium tinctorium (Ellis & Everh.) Ellis & Everh. [as tinctorius] |
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Fomes tinctorius Ellis & Everh. |
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Echinodontium tinctorium is a plant pathogen. It is commonly known as the Indian paint fungus.
Some Plateau Indian tribes applied it to skin to prevent it from chapping.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Hunn, Eugene S. (1990). Nch'i-Wana, "The Big River": Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land. University of Washington Press. p. 353. ISBN 0-295-97119-3.
- "CTD — Heart Rots: Brown Stringy Trunk Rot". http://www.pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/diseases/CTD/Group/Heart/heart2_e.html. Retrieved 2008-12-05.[dead link]
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