DNA was recovered and sequenced from fragments of a nearly 7000-year-old fruit body of D. tricolor found in an early Neolithic village in Rome.

[1] Daedaleopsis fungi have basidiocarps that are annual, with a cap or effused-reflexed (crust-like with the edges forming cap-like structures).

Microscopic features include a trimitic hyphal system with clamped generative hyphae, and the presence of dendrohyphidia.

Daedaleopsis has hyaline, thin-walled, and slightly curved cylindrical spores that are negative in Melzer's reagent and Cotton Blue.

[3] Daedaleopsis fungi cause white rot, and are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere.