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Flaviporus

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Rank
  
Genus

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Family
  
Steccherinaceae

Order
  
Polyporales

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Similar
  
Polyporales, Junghuhnia, Flabellophora, Antrodiella, Loweomyces

Flaviporus is a genus of poroid fungi in the family Steccherinaceae. It was circumscribed by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1905.

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Description

Murrill described the characteristics of Flaviporus as follows: "Hymenium annual, often reviving, epixylous, sessile, dimidiate, imbricate; surface encrusted, glabrous: context thick, woody, brown; tubes thin-walled, minute, regular: spores smooth, hyaline."

Species

  • Flaviporus americanus (Ryvarden & Gilb.) Ginns (1984)
  • Flaviporus brownii (Humb.) Donk (1960)
  • Flaviporus citrinellus (Niemelä & Ryvarden) Ginns (1984)
  • Flaviporus delicatus A.David & Rajchenb. (1992) – Africa
  • Flaviporus hunua (G.Cunn.) Ginns (1984)
  • Flaviporus hydrophilus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Ginns (1980)
  • Flaviporus liebmannii (Fr.) Ginns (1980)
  • Flaviporus minutisporus (D.A.Reid, K.S.Thind & Chatr.) Ginns (1980) – Uttar Pradesh
  • Flaviporus stramineus (Bres.) Ginns (1984)
  • Flaviporus subhydrophilus (Speg.) Rajchenb. & J.E.Wright (1987)
  • Flaviporus venustus A.David & Rajchenb. (1985) – Martinique
  • Flaviporus xanthus A.David & Rajchenb. (1992) – Africa

    • References

    Flaviporus Wikipedia
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