Piptoporus

Piptoporus
Piptoporus betulinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Fomitopsidaceae
Genus: Piptoporus
P.Karst (1881)
Type species
Piptoporus betulinus
(Bull.) P.Karst (1787)
Synonyms

Ungularia Lázaro Ibiza (1917)
Placodes sect. Placoderma Ricken (1918)
Placoderma (Ricken) Ulbr. (1928)

Piptoporus is a genus of bracket fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceae.

Fungi of this genus have been recorded as occasional food of the pleasing fungus beetle Dacne quadrimaculata.

Species

Various species formerly classified as Piptoporus (for example, P. choseniae, P. fraxineus, P. ulmi, P. hirtus, and P. elatinus) have been renamed or moved into other genera.

References

  1. ↑ "Piptoporus P. Karst. 1881". International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  2. ↑ Goodrich, Michael A. and Springer, Charles A. (1999): The Pleasing Fungus Beetles (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) of Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 25: 53-71.Fulltext
  3. ↑ Thorn, G. (2000). "Some polypores misclassified in Piptoporus". Karstenia. 40 (1–2): 181–7. doi:10.29203/ka.2000.369.
  4. ↑ Binder, Manfred; Justo, Alfredo; Riley, Robert; Salamov, Asaf; Lopez-Giraldez, Francesc; Sjökvist, Elisabet; Copeland, Alex; Foster, Brian; Sun, Hui; Larsson, Ellen; Larsson, Karl-Henrik; Townsend, Jeffrey; Grigoriev, Igor V.; Hibbett, David S. (2013). "Phylogenetic and phylogenomic overview of the Polyporales". Mycologia. 105 (6): 1350–1373. doi:10.3852/13-003. ISSN 0027-5514. JSTOR 43923708. PMID 23935031. S2CID 20812924.