Aurantiporus

Aurantiporus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Aurantiporus
Murrill (1905)
Type species
Aurantiporus pilotae
(Schwein.) Murrill (1905)
Species
  • A. albidus
  • A. alborubescens
  • A. fissilis
  • A. pilotae
  • A. transformatus

Aurantiporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. Circumscribed by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1905,[1] the genus contains five species found in northern temperate regions.[2]

References

  1. Murrill WA. (1905). "The Polyporaceae of North America: XII. A synopsis of the white and bright-colored pileate species". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 32 (9): 469–94. doi:10.2307/2478463.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.

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