Biology:Aporpium

From HandWiki
Short description: Genus of fungi

Aporpium
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Auriculariales
Family: Auriculariaceae
Genus: Aporpium
Bondartsev & Singer (1944)
Type species
Aporpium canescens
(P. Karst.) Bondartsev & Singer (1944)
Species

Aporpium caryae
Aporpium macroporum

Aporpium is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are formed on dead wood and have a poroid hymenium. Species were often formerly referred to the genera Elmerina[1] or Protomerulius, but molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has shown that Aporpium is a distinct, mainly north temperate genus.[2]


References

  1. "The genus Elmerina (Tremellales), with accounts of two species from Queensland, Australia". Persoonia 14: 465–474. 1992. 
  2. "Revision of Protohydnum (Auriculariales, Basidiomycota)". Mycological Progress 17 (7): 805–814. 2018. doi:10.1007/s11557-018-1393-6.1393-6. 

Wikidata ☰ Q104596453 entry