Kingdom Fungi Class Agaricomycetes Scientific name Lopharia | Division Basidiomycota Rank Genus | |
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Similar Porostereum, Limacella glischra, Lactarius aspideoides, Lactarius affinis, Laetiporus huroniensis | ||
Lopharia cinerascens fungi kingdom
Lopharia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Károly Kalchbrenner and Peter MacOwan in 1881.
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Description
Fruit bodies of Lopharia fungi are crust like, to effused-reflexed (like a crust with the edges curled out to form caps). The sterile portion of the crust surface is tomentose, while the spore-bearing surface (the hymenium) is smooth or tuberculate. The colour ranges from greyish-white to cream to pale yellowish.
Lopharia has a dimitic hyphal system, meaning that it contains both generative and skeletal hyphae. The generative hyphae have clamp connections. Basidia are club shaped with four sterigmata, and have a clamp at the base. Spores are cylindrical to ellipsoid in shape with a smooth surface. They are hyaline (translucent), and have oily contents.
Species
A 2008 estimate placed 13 species in Lopharia. As of October 2016, Index Fungorum accepts 15 species: