Polyporus

Polyporus
Polyporus tuberaster
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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. The generic name combines the Ancient Greek words πολύς ("many") and πόρος ("pore").

Elias Fries divided Polyporus into three subgenera in his 1855 work Novae Symbol Mycologici: Eupolyporus, Fomes, and Poria. 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.

The identity of the type species of Polyporus has long been a matter of contention among mycologists. Some have preferred P. brumalis, some P. squamosus, while others have preferred P. tuberaster.

Ecology

"Polyporus" species have historically been listed as food for several animals, such as the pleasing fungus beetles Aporotritoma pulchra, Dacne californica, Rotitma sanguinipennis, Triplax californica, and Tritoma humeralis and T.mimetica. Whether this referred to a species nowadays still placed in this genus, or some other Polyporaceae, is rarely determinable today.

Selected species

There are almost 250 species recognised including:

References

  1. ↑ Micheli, P.A. (1729). Nova Plantarum Genera. Florentia: Typis Bernardi Paperinii. p. 129, t. 70–71.
  2. ↑ Donk, M.A. (1960). "The generic names proposed for Polyporaceae". Persoonia. 1 (2): 173–302.
  3. ↑ Fries E.M. (1855). Novae Symbolae Mycologicae (in Latin). Uppsala: Excudit C.A. Leffler Reg. Acad. Typographus. pp. 17–136.
  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.
  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. Vol. 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. Vol. 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. JSTOR 20444985. PMID 18833753. S2CID 22100239.
  11. ↑ Boyle, Wilford Wayne (1956): A revision of the Erotylidae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera). Bull. AMNH 110: 61-172. PDF fulltext
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  13. ↑ 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.