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Inonotus

Inonotus is a genus of fungi in the family Hymenochaetaceae. The genus, described by Petter Karsten in 1879, is estimated to contain about 80 species sensu lato and 30 species sensu stricto.

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Inonotus
Inonotus tamaricis
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Hymenochaetales
Family: Hymenochaetaceae
Genus: Inonotus
P.Karst. (1879)
Type species
Inonotus cuticularis
(Bull.) P.Karst. (1879)
Synonyms1

Cyclomyces Kunze ex Fr. (1830)
Inoderma P.Karst. (1879)
Inodermus Quél. (1886)
Phaeoporus J.Schröt. (1888)
Flaviporellus Murrill (1905)
Cycloporellus Murrill (1907)
Xanthoporia Murrill (1916)
Polystictoides Lázaro Ibiza (1917)
Inonotopsis Parmasto (1973)

Inonotus is a genus of fungi in the family Hymenochaetaceae. The genus, described by Petter Karsten in 1879,2 is estimated to contain about 80 species sensu lato and 30 species sensu stricto (in the strict sense).3

The name comes from ino meaning fibrous and ot meaning ear.4

Fungi of this genus have been recorded as main food of the pleasing fungus beetles Triplax festiva and T.frontalis, and presumably also their closest relatives T.alachuae, T.macra and T.marcescens.56

Species

  • Inonotus acutus
  • Inonotus adnatus
  • Inonotus afromontanus
  • Inonotus albertinii
  • Inonotus amazonicus
  • Inonotus andersonii
  • Inonotus arizonicus
  • Inonotus australiensis
  • Inonotus austropusillus
  • Inonotus boninensis
  • Inonotus chihshanyenus
  • Inonotus chilanshanus
  • Inonotus chrysomarginatus
  • Inonotus clemensiae
  • Inonotus costaricensis
  • Inonotus crocitinctus
  • Inonotus cuticularis
  • Inonotus dentatus
  • Inonotus dentiporus
  • Inonotus diverticuloseta
  • Inonotus dryadeus
  • Inonotus dryophilus
  • Inonotus duostratosus
  • Inonotus euphoriae
  • Inonotus farlowii
  • Inonotus fimbriatus
  • Inonotus flammans
  • Inonotus flavidus
  • Inonotus fulvomelleus
  • Inonotus glomeratus
  • Inonotus gracilis
  • Inonotus griseus – China7
  • Inonotus hamusetulus
  • Inonotus hastifer
  • Inonotus hemmesii
  • Inonotus hispidus
  • Inonotus japonicus
  • Inonotus juniperinus
  • Inonotus leporinus
  • Inonotus lloydii
  • Inonotus ludovicianus
  • Inonotus luteoumbrinus
  • Inonotus marginatus
  • Inonotus micantissimus
  • Inonotus microsporus
  • Inonotus mikadoi
  • Inonotus minutoporus
  • Inonotus munzii
  • Inonotus navisporus
  • Inonotus neotropicus
  • Inonotus nidus-pici
  • Inonotus niveomarginatus8
  • Inonotus nodulosus
  • Inonotus nothofagi
  • Inonotus novoguineensis
  • Inonotus obliquus
  • Inonotus ochroporus
  • Inonotus pacificus
  • Inonotus palmicola
  • Inonotus papyrinus
  • Inonotus patouillardii
  • Inonotus pegleri
  • Inonotus peristrophidis
  • Inonotus pertenuis
  • Inonotus plorans
  • Inonotus poncei
  • Inonotus porrectus
  • Inonotus pseudoglomeratus
  • Inonotus pseudoradiatus
  • Inonotus pusillus
  • Inonotus quercustris
  • Inonotus radiatus
  • Inonotus rheades
  • Inonotus rickii
  • Inonotus rigidus
  • Inonotus rodwayi
  • Inonotus setulosocroceus
  • Inonotus shoreae
  • Inonotus sideroides
  • Inonotus splitgerberi
  • Inonotus tabacinus
  • Inonotus tamaricis
  • Inonotus tenuissimus8
  • Inonotus triqueter
  • Inonotus ungulatus
  • Inonotus venezuelicus
  • Inonotus xanthoporus
  • Inonotus xeranticus9
References

References

  1. "Inonotus P.Karst. 1879". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
  2. Karsten PA. (1879). "Symbolae ad mycologiam Fennicam. VI". Meddelanden Af Societas Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (in Latin). 5: 15–46.
  3. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 340. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  4. Inonotus Archived 2020-09-29 at the Wayback Machine at Messiah College
  5. Boyle, Wilford Wayne (1956): A revision of the Erotylidae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera). Bull. AMNH 110: 61-172. PDF fulltext
  6. 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
  7. Zhou LW, Wang XY (2015). "Inonotus griseus sp. nov. from eastern China". Mycotaxon. 130 (3): 661–669. doi:10.5248/130.661.
  8. Yu HY, Zhao CL, Dai YC (2013). "Inonotus niveomarginatus and I. tenuissimus spp. nov. (Hymenochaetales), resupinate species from tropical China". Mycotaxon. 124: 61–8. doi:10.5248/124.61.
  9. Inonotus xeranticus - MycoBank