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Trichaptum

Trichaptum is a genus of poroid fungi. The genus was circumscribed by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1904. Formerly classified in the family Polyporaceae, several molecular studies have shown that the genus belongs to the order Hymenochaetales.

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Trichaptum
Trichaptum abietinum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Hymenochaetales
Family: Hymenochaetaceae
Genus: Trichaptum
Murrill (1904)
Type species
Trichaptum trichomallum
(Berk. & Mont.) Murrill
Synonyms1

Trichaptum is a genus of poroid fungi. The genus was circumscribed by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1904.4 Formerly classified in the family Polyporaceae, several molecular studies have shown that the genus belongs to the order Hymenochaetales.567

Species

  • Trichaptum abietinum
  • Trichaptum agglutinatum
  • Trichaptum album
  • Trichaptum basifuscum
  • Trichaptum biforme
  • Trichaptum brastagii
  • Trichaptum bulbocystidiatum
  • Trichaptum byssogenum
  • Trichaptum ceraceicutis
  • Trichaptum deviatum
  • Trichaptum favoloides
  • Trichaptum flavum
  • Trichaptum fumosoavellaneum
  • Trichaptum fuscoviolaceum
  • Trichaptum griseofuscum
  • Trichaptum imbricatum
  • Trichaptum jackiae
  • Trichaptum lacunosum
  • Trichaptum laricinum
  • Trichaptum molestum
  • Trichaptum montanum
  • Trichaptum parvulum
  • Trichaptum perenne
  • Trichaptum perpusillum
  • Trichaptum perrottetii
  • Trichaptum podocarpi
  • Trichaptum polycystidiatum
  • Trichaptum sector
  • Trichaptum strigosum
  • Trichaptum subchartaceum
  • Trichaptum suberosum
  • Trichaptum trichomallum
  • Trichaptum variabilis
  • Trichaptum vinaceobrunneum
References

References

  1. "Trichaptum Murrill 1904". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2012-03-25.
  2. Donk, Marinus A. (1933). "Revisie van de Nederlandse Heterobasidiomyceteae (uitgez. Uredinales en Ustilaginales) en Homobasidiomyceteae-Aphyllophraceae: II". Mededelingen van het Botanisch Museum en Herbarium van de Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht (in Dutch). 9: 168.
  3. Parmasto, Erast (1982). "Poriodontia, a new porioid genus of the Hyphodontieae (Aphyllophorales: Corticiaceae)". Mycotaxon. 14 (1): 103–106.
  4. Murrill, William A. (1904). "The Polyporaceae of North America: IX. Inonotus, Sesia and monotypic genera". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 31 (11): 593–610. doi:10.2307/2478612. JSTOR 2478612.
  5. Hibbett, D.S.; Donoghue, M.J. (1995). "Progress toward a phylogenetic classification of the Polyporaceae through parsimony analyses of ribosomal DNA sequences". Canadian Journal of Botany. 73 (S1): S853–S861. doi:10.1139/b95-331.
  6. Binder, Manfred; Hibbett, David S.; Larsson, Karl-Henrik; Larsson, Ellen; Langer, Ewald; Langer, Gitta (2005). "The phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms across the major clades of mushroom-forming fungi (Homobasidiomycetes)" (PDF). Systematics and Biodiversity. 3 (2): 1–45. Bibcode:2005SyBio...3..113B. doi:10.1017/s1477200005001623.
  7. Larsson, Karl-Henrik; Parmasto, Erast; Fischer, Michael; Langer, Ewald; Nakasone, Karen N.; Redhead, Scott A. (2006). "Hymenochaetales: A molecular phylogeny for the hymenochaetoid clade". Mycologia. 98 (6): 926–936. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.926. PMID 17486969.