Fungalpedia – Note 2400, Fuscoporia

 

Fuscoporia Murrill

Citation when using this data: Yuan HS et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Basidiomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1

Classification: Hymenochaetaceae, Hymenochaetales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi

Fuscoporia is a well-established genus in the Hymenochaetaceae and was originally described by Murrill (1907) with F. ferruginosa (Schrad.) Murrill as the type species. The genus includes species with a wide geographic distribution (Wagner and Fischer 2001, 2002; Baltazar et al. 2009; Vlasák et al. 2011; Raymundo et al. 2013; Chen and Yuan 2017, Chen et al. 2019), characterized by resupinate to pileate basidiocarps, dimitic hyphal system with hyaline, narrow, thin-walled and simple-septate generative hyphae, usually with encrustations and globose to ovoid, smooth and hyaline basidiospores (Wagner and Fischer 2001, 2002; Baltazar et al. 2009; Chen and Yuan 2017). 

Type species: Fuscoporia ferruginosa (Schrad.) Murrill [as ‘ferruginosus’], N. Amer. Fl. (New York) 9(1): 5 (1907).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Fuscoporia.

 

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Figure 1 – Fuscoporia licnoides (URM 83001; URM 83004). a Abhymenial surface. b Hymenial surface. c Setae. d Basidiospores. Photos: R.L. Alvarenga. Scale bars: a = 1 cm, b = 1 cm, c = 10 mm, d = 5 mm

 

References

Baltazar JM, Trierveiler-Pereira L, Loguercio-Leite C, Ryvarden, L 2009 – Santa Catarina Island mangroves 3: a new species of Fuscoporia. Mycologia 101:859–863.

Chen Q, Yuan Y 2017 – A new species of Fuscoporia (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) from southern China. Mycosphere 8:1238–1245.

Chen Q, Wu F, Ji XH, Si J, Zhou LW, Tian XM, Vlasák J, Dai YC 2019 – Phylogeny of the genus Fuscoporia and taxonomic assessment of the F. contigua group, Mycologia 111:423–444.

Murrill WA, Alphonso W (1907) (Agaricales) Polyporaceae. (Agaricales) Polyporaceae-Agaricaceae. Botanical Garden, New York.

Raymundo T, Valenzuela R., Bautista-Hernández S, Esqueda M, Cifuentes J, Pacheco L 2013 – El género Fuscoporia (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) en México. Rev Mex Biodiver 84: 50–69.

Wagner T, Fischer M 2001 – Natural groups and a revised system for the European poroid Hymenochaetales (Basidiomycota) supported by nLSU rDNA sequence data. Mycol Res 105:773–782.

Wagner T, Fischer M 2002 – Proceeding toward a natural classification of the worldwide taxa Phellinus s.l. and Inonotus s.l. and phylogenetic relationship of allied genera. Mycologia 94:998–1016.

Vlasák J, Kout J, Vlasák J, Ryvarden L 2011 – New records of polypores from southern Florida. Mycotaxon 118:159–176.

 

Entry by

Hai-Sheng Yuan, CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110164, People’s Republic of China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

 

Published online 5 May 2026

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