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Ceriporia
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Ceriporia is a widely distributed genus of crust fungi.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomFungi
  2. PhylumBasidiomycota
  3. ClassAgaricomycetes
  4. OrderPolyporales
  5. FamilyIrpicaceae
Observations recorded18,250

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
92
With media
73
Family
Irpicaceae
Collections
UFPE, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), MEL, UFRGS, TENN-F, FLAS
Recorded in
Brasil, Australia, Netherlands, United States

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Irpicaceae
Image
Ceriporia spissa 95656.jpg
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taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Ceriporia
taxon name
Ceriporia
topic's main category
Category:Ceriporia
taxon author citation
Donk
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Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • Taxonomy
  • Species
  • References

Ceriporia is a widely distributed genus of crust fungi.

==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed by Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1930, with Ceriporia viridans as the type species. The generic name combines the Latin word cera ("wax") and the name Poria.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ceriporia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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