R. americana R. borneensis R. brunnea R. filamentosa R. fouquieriae R. radicata R. sulphurosa R. sulphurina R. violascens Rhizochaete is a genus of nine species of poroid crust fungi in the family Phanerochaetaceae.
The genus Rhizochaete was circumscribed by mycologists Alina Greslebin, Karen Nakasone, and Mario Rajchenberg in 2004.
[1] Rhizochaete fruit bodies have a hymenophore surface texture that ranges from smooth to tuberculate (with knots or rounded bumps).
The outer margin of the fruit body is fimbriate (fringed with hairs or fibres) or fibrillose (appearing as if made of fine, silky threads).
Both the fruit body surface and the rhizomorphs turn red to violet when treated with a drop of dilute solution of potassium hydroxide.