Polyporales
Sign in to saveThe Polyporales are an order of about 1,800 species of fungi in the division Basidiomycota. The order includes some (but not all) polypores as well as many corticioid fungi and a few agarics (mainly in the genus Lentinus). Many species within the order are saprotrophic, most of them wood-rotters. Some genera, such as Ganoderma and Fomes, contain species that attack living tissues and then continue to degrade the wood of their dead hosts. Those of economic importance include several important pathogens of trees and a few species that cause damage by rotting structural timber. Some of the Polypo
Research
8,289 papers- Calcipostia guttulata (Basidiomycota, Polyporales) in Russia.Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections · 2025
- Phylogenetic and phylogenomic overview of the Polyporales.Mycologia · 2013
- Two new species of Haploporus (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from China and Ecuador based on morphology and phylogeny.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023
- A revised family-level classification of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota).Fungal biology · 2017
- Identification of sedative-hypnotic compounds shared by five medicinal Polyporales mushrooms using UPLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS-based untargeted metabolomics.Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology · 2024
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- Ecology
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- Sequenced genomes
- Fossil record
- Genera ''Incertae sedis''
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The Polyporales are an order of about 1,800 species of fungi in the division Basidiomycota. The order includes some (but not all) polypores as well as many corticioid fungi and a few agarics (mainly in the genus Lentinus). Many species within the order are saprotrophic, most of them wood-rotters. Some genera, such as Ganoderma and Fomes, contain species that attack living tissues and then continue to degrade the wood of their dead hosts. Those of economic importance include several important pathogens of trees and a few species that cause damage by rotting structural timber. Some of the Polyporales are commercially cultivated and marketed for use as food items or in traditional Chinese medicine.
==Taxonomy==