Fungalpedia – Note 3072, Fulvifomes
Fulvifomes Murrill.
Citation when using this data: Senanayake IC et al. 2023 – Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Hymenochaetaceae, Hymenochaetales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi.
Fulvifomes comprises annual to perennial, resupinate, effused-reflexed, imbricate to pileate, sessile, applanate to ungulate basidiomata with homogenous or duplex context and poroid hymenial layer, bearing round to angular pores (Hattori et al. 2022). Microscopically mono-dimitic to dimitic hyphal system, with or without sterile elements such as setae and cystidioles in hymenium and smooth, thick-walled, coloured, cyanopilic or acyanophilic, inamyloid, globose to ellipsoidal basidiospores are the characteristics in this genus (Murrill 1914; Wagner and Fischer 2002; Dai 2010; Zhou 2014; Hattori et al. 2014; Salvador-Montoya et al. 2018)
Earlier, Fulvifomes was treated as synonym of Phellinus Quél. (Ryvarden and Johansen 1980; Ryvarden 1991; Núñez and Ryvarden 2000). Nevertheless, studies on nuclear behaviour and molecular data are supported the generic rank of Fulvifomes from Phellinus s.l. in Hymenochaetaceae (Fiasson and Niemelä 1984; Wagner and Fischer 2002; Larsson et al. 2006; Baltazar and Gibertoni 2010; Dai 2010; Hattori et al. 2014; Zhou 2014). Wagner and Fischer (2002) was placed basidiomes with coloured spores without setal elements under Fulvifomes. Dai (2010) was included few resupinate basidiomes and species with hymenial setae in Fulvifomes. Approximately 87 associated records of Fulvifomes were documented in MycoBank and 50 related taxa were recorded in NCBI.
Type species: Fulvifomes robiniae (Murrill) Murrill.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Fulvifomes.
References
Dai YC. 2010 – Hymenochaetaceae (Basidiomycota) in China. Fungal Divers 45: 131–343.
Murrill WA. 1914 – Northern polypores. Privately printed, New York.
Núñez M, Ryvarden L. 2000 – East Asian polypores 1. Ganodermataceae and Hymenochaetaceae. Synopsis Fungorum 13: 1–168.
Ryvarden L, Johansen I. 1980 – A preliminary polypore flora of East Africa. Fungifora, Oslo: 1–636.
Ryvarden L. 1991 – Genera of polypores: nomenclature and taxonomy. Synop Fungorum 5: 1–363.
Entry by
Indunil C. Senanayake, Innovative Institute for Plant Health/ Key Laboratory of Green Prevention and Control on Fruits and Vegetables in South China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, Guangdong, China., Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand., Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, 3688, Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China., University of L’Aquila, Department MeSVA, sect. Environmental Sciences, Via Vetoio, 67100 Coppito (AQ), Italy.
Published online 31 August 2026