The Irpicaceae are a family of mostly polypores and crust fungi in the order Polyporales.
FAMILY
via GBIF
The Irpicaceae are a family of mostly polypores and crust fungi in the order Polyporales.
==Taxonomy== The family was circumscribed in 2003 by mycologists Viacheslav Spirin and Ivan Zmitrovich. The type genus is Irpex. Later multi-gene phylogenetic analyses of the Polyporales supported the use of this family. In these analyses, Irpicaceae is a sister taxon to the Meruliaceae; these two families, as well as the Phanerochaetaceae, form the phlebioid clade.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).