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Ganodermataceae

The Ganodermataceae are a family of fungi in the order Polyporales. As of April 2018, Index Fungorum accepts 8 genera and 300 species in the family. The family was circumscribed by Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1948 to contain polypores with a double spore wall. The inner wall is verruculose to ornamented, thickened and usually coloured, while the outer wall is thin and hyaline.

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Ganodermataceae
Ganoderma lucidum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Ganodermataceae
(Donk) Donk (1948)1
Type genus
Ganoderma
P.Karst. (1881)
Genera

The Ganodermataceae are a family of fungi in the order Polyporales. As of April 2018, Index Fungorum accepts 8 genera and 300 species in the family.3 The family was circumscribed by Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1948 to contain polypores with a double spore wall. The inner wall is verruculose (with moderate-sized growths) to ornamented, thickened and usually coloured, while the outer wall is thin and hyaline.1

References

References

  1. Donk, Marinus A. (1948). "Notes on Malesian fungi. I". Bulletin du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg. 17 (III): 473–482.
  2. Murrill, W.A. (1905). "Tomophagus for Dendrophagus". Torreya. 5: 197.
  3. Kirk, P.M. (ed.). "Species Fungorum (version 28th March 2018). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Archived from the original on 21 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Moncalvo, Jean-Marc; Ryvarden, Leif (1997). A Nomenclatural Study of the Ganodermataceae. Synopsis Fungorum. Oslo, Norway: Fungiflora. ISBN 8290724187.