Biology:Polyporus

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Polyporus
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Polyporus tuberaster
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Polyporus
P.Micheli ex Adans. (1763)
Type species
Polyporus tuberaster
(Jacq. ex Pers.) Fr. (1815)

Polyporus is a genus of poroid fungi in the family Polyporaceae.

Taxonomy

Italian botanist Pier Antonio Micheli introduced the genus in 1729 to include 14 species featuring fruit bodies with centrally-placed stipes, and pores on the underside of the cap.[1] The generic name combines the Ancient Greek words πολύς ("many") and πόρος ("pore").[2]

Elias Fries divided Polyporus into three subgenera in his 1855 work Novae Symbol Mycologici: Eupolyporus, Fomes, and Poria.[3] In a 1995 monograph, Maria Núñez and Leif Ryvarden grouped 32 Polyporus species into 6 morphologically-based infrageneric groups: Admirabilis, Dendropolyporus, Favolus, Polyporellus, Melanopus, and Polyporus sensu stricto.[4]

The identity of the type species of Polyporus has long been a matter of contention among mycologists. Some have preferred P. brumalis,[5][6] some P. squamosus,[7] while others have preferred P. tuberaster.[8][9][10]

Selected species

There are almost 250 species recognised including:

  • Polyporus australiensis
  • Polyporus gayanus
  • Polyporus leprieurii
  • Polyporus minutosquamosus – French Guiana[11]
  • Polyporus phyllostachydis
  • Polyporus radicatus
  • Polyporus tuberaster, tuberous polypore (type species)
  • Polyporus umbellatus


References

  1. Micheli, P.A. (1729). Nova Plantarum Genera. Florentia: Typis Bernardi Paperinii. p. 129, t. 70–71. http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=2801&Pagina=153. 
  2. Donk, M.A. (1960). "The generic names proposed for Polyporaceae". Persoonia 1 (2): 173–302. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/61056/0001/002/0173.htm. 
  3. Fries E.M. (1855) (in la). Novae Symbolae Mycologicae. Uppsala: Excudit C.A. Leffler Reg. Acad. Typographus. pp. 17–136. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/112967#/summary. 
  4. Núñez, Maria; Ryvarden, Leif (1995). "Polyporus (Basidiomycotina) and related genera". Synopsis Fungorum 10: 1–85. 
  5. Clements, Frederic E.; Shear, Cornelius L. (1931). The Genera of Fungi. New York: Hafner Publishing. p. 347. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4699966. 
  6. Krüger, D.; Gargas A. (2004). "The basidiomycete genus Polyporus—an emendation based on phylogeny and putative secondary structure of ribosomal RNA molecules". Feddes Repertorium 115 (7–8): 530–546. doi:10.1002/fedr.200311052. 
  7. Ryvarden, L.; Melo, I. (2014). Poroid Fungi of Europe. Synopsis Fungorum. 31. Oslo, Norway: Fungiflora. p. 350. ISBN 978-8290724462. 
  8. Overholts, Lee Oras (1953). The Polyporaceae of the United States, Alaska and Canada. University of Michigan Studies. 19. 
  9. da Silveira, Rosa Mara Borges; Wright, Jorge Eduardo (2005). "The taxonomy of Echinochaete and Polyporus s. str. in South America". Mycotaxon 93: 1–59. 
  10. Sotome, Kozue; Hattori, Tsutomu; Ota, Yuko; To-Anun, Chaiwat; Salleh, Baharuddin; Kakishima, Makoto (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships of Polyporus and morphologically allied genera". Mycologia 100 (4): 603–615. doi:10.3852/07-191R. PMID 18833753. 
  11. Runnel, Kadri; Ryvarden, Leif (2016). "Polyporus minutosquamosus sp. nov. from tropical rainforests in French Guiana with a key to neotropical species of Polyporus (Polyporaceae, Basidiomycota)". Nova Hedwigia 103 (3–4): 339–347. doi:10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2016/0354. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1548736 entry


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