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Piptoporus

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

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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)
Synonyms1

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

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

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.2

References

References

  1. "Piptoporus P. Karst. 1881". International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  2. Thorn, G. (2000). "Some polypores misclassified in Piptoporus". Karstenia. 40 (1–2): 181–7. doi:10.29203/ka.2000.369.
  3. 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.
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