Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are typically bracket-like and gelatinous, with or without a stipe, with a hydnoid (toothed) undersurface.

The genus is widely distributed in both the northern and southern hemisphere, with thirteen species currently described and others awaiting description.

[1] The genus, first described by Finnish mycologist Petter Adolf Karsten in 1868,[2] has not yet been classified with certainty into a family.

Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has confirmed Pseudohydnum as a natural (monophyletic) taxon.

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