Oligoporus

Oligoporus

Oligoporus caesius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Polyporaceae
Genus:	Oligoporus Bref. (1888)
Type species
Oligoporus farinosus Bref. (1888)

Oligoporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was described by German mycologist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1888.^[1] According to a 2008 estimate, Oligoporus contains 10 species.^[2]

Species

Oligoporus africanus
Oligoporus alni
Oligoporus balsaminus
Oligoporus caesius
Oligoporus cretaceitextus
Oligoporus davidiae
Oligoporus hydnoidea
Oligoporus norrlandicus
Oligoporus parvus
Oligoporus romellii

References

↑ Brefeld O. (1888). "Basidiomyceten III. Autobasidiomyceten". Untersuchungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Mykologie (in German) 8: 114.
↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 480. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.

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