Fomitiporia

Fomitiporia
Fomitiporia ellipsoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Hymenochaetales
Family: Hymenochaetaceae
Genus: Fomitiporia
Murrill (1907)
Type species
Fomitiporia langloisii
Murrill (1907)

Fomitiporia is a genus of fungi in the family Hymenochaetaceae. According to a 2008 estimate, the widely distributed genus contains 11 species,[1] though three new species were identified in 2010 in sub-Saharan Africa using multigene molecular phylogenetic analysis.[2] In 2011 it was announced that a specimen of the species F. ellipsoidea was discovered with a fruit body that is largest known of any fungus.[3] [4]

Species

References

  1. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 
  2. ^ Amalfi M, Yombiyeni P, Antonio Decock D. (2010). "Fomitiporia in sub-Saharan Africa: morphology and multigene phylogenetic analysis support three new species from the Guineo-Congolian rainforest". Mycologia 102 (6): 1301–17. doi:10.3852/09-083. 
  3. ^ Fomitiporia ellipsoidea has the largest fruiting body among the fungi
  4. ^ Giant fungus discovered in China

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