Anthoporia
Sign in to saveAnthoporia is a fungal genus in the family Meripilaceae. It is a monotypic genus, circumscribed in 2016 to contain the single species Anthoporia albobrunnea.
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- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderPolyporales
- FamilyFomitopsidaceae
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Anthoporia is a fungal genus in the family Meripilaceae. It is a monotypic genus, circumscribed in 2016 to contain the single species Anthoporia albobrunnea.
==Taxonomy== The fungus was first described scientifically by Swedish mycologist Lars Romell in 1911, who called it Polyporus albobrunneus. Over the following several decades, it was shuffled to several general by different authors: Leptoporus (Pilát, 1938), Poria (D.V.Baxter), Tyromyces (Bondartsev, 1953), Antrodia (Ryvarden, 1973), Coriolellus (Domanski, 1974), and Piloporia (Ginns, 1984).