Australoporus

Australoporus
In the Upper Florentine Valley
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Australoporus
P.K.Buchanan & Ryvarden (1988)
Type species
Australoporus tasmanicus
(Berk.) P.K.Buchanan & Ryvarden (1988)
Synonyms
  • Polyporus tasmanicus Berk. (1860)
  • Fomes tasmanicus (Berk.) Cooke (1885)
  • Scindalma tasmanicum (Berk.) Kuntze (1898)
  • Fomitopsis tasmanica (Berk.) G.Cunn. (1949)
  • Ungulina tasmanica (Berk.) R.Heim (1951)
  • Heterobasidion tasmanicum (Berk.) G.Cunn. (1965)
  • Trichaptum tasmanicum (Berk.) Teixeira (1994)

Australoporus is a fungal genus in the family Polyporaceae. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Australoporus tasmanicus, found in Tasmania. The genus was circumscribed in 1988 by mycologists Peter Buchanan and Leif Ryvarden to contain the species then known as Polyporus tasmanicus.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Buchanan PK, Ryvarden L. (1988). "Type studies in the Polyporaceae – 18. Species described by G.H. Cunningham". Mycotaxon 31 (1): 1–38.

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