Kingdom Fungi Class Agaricomycetes Family Polyporaceae Rank Genus | Division Basidiomycota Order Polyporales Scientific name Haploporus | |
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Similar Haploporus odorus, Pachykytospora, Perenniporia, Diplomitoporus, Datronia | ||
Haploporus is a genus of poroid fungi in the family Polyporaceae.
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Taxonomy
The genus Haploporus was circumscribed by mycologists Appollinaris Semenovich Bondartsev and Rolf Singer in 1944 with Haploporus odorous as the type, and only species. The name Haploporus is derived from the Greek words απλόος ("simple"), and πόρος ("pore").
Yu-Cheng Dai and colleagues treated the genus Pachykytospora as a synonym of Haploporus in a 2002 publication. Leif Ryvarden, who adopts a "pragmatic and conservative generic concept" in his 2014 work on European polypores, treats Haploporus as monotypic.
Using Haploporus tuberculosis as a representative generic exemplar, molecular analysis showed Haploporus to be nested within the core polyporoid clade.
Description
Haploporus species have an annual to perennial growth habit. They are crust like, with sessile or effused-reflexed (crust like with outside edges extended to form caps) fruit bodies. The hyphal system of Haploporus is dimitic to trimitic; the generative hyphae have clamp connections. The spores are oblong ellipsoid to roughly spherical, ornamented, thick-walled and cyanophilous.
Habitat and distribution
Haploporus fungi cause a white rot.