Cryptoporus volvatus

Cryptoporus volvatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Cryptoporus
Species: C. volvatus
Binomial name
Cryptoporus volvatus
(Peck) Shear (1902)
Synonyms
  • Cryptoporus volvatus var. pleurostoma (Pat.) Sacc.
  • Cryptoporus volvatus var. torreyi (W.R.Gerard) Shear
  • Cryptoporus volvatus (Peck) Shear
  • Fomes volvatus (Peck) Cooke
  • Fomes volvatus var. pleurostoma (Pat.) Sacc. & Traverso
  • Fomes volvatus var. torreyi (W.R.Gerard) Sacc.
  • Polyporus volvatus Peck
  • Polyporus volvatus W.R.Gerard
  • Scindalma volvatum (Peck) Kuntze
  • Ungulina volvata (Peck) Pat.
  • Ungulina volvata var. pleurostoma Pat.

Cryptoporus volvatus is a polypore fungus that decomposes the rotting sapwood of conifers. It is an aftereffect of attack by the pine bark beetle bug.[1] The fungus was originally described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1875 as Polyporus volvatus.

References

  1. ↑ Davis RM, Sommer R, Menge JA. (2012). Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America. University of California Press. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-520-27108-1.

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