Fungalpedia – Note 2573, Phanerochaetaceae

 

Phanerochaetaceae. Jülich.

Citation when using this data: Boonmee S et al. 2021 – Fungalpedia.

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Classification: Polyporales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi

Notes: Phanerochaetaceae is one of the three largest subclades of the phleboid clade of Polyporales, Basidiomycota (Miettinen et al. 2016; Justo et al. 2017). The family includes about 17 known genera, most of which are corticioid fungi with Phanerochaete, Phlebiopsis and Rhizochaete. as the three largest genera in the family (Floudas and Hibbett 2015; Miettinen et al. 2016; Nakasone et al. 2017). Although several new genera were described recently by different mycologists (Miettinen et al. 2016; Yuan et al. 2017; Chen et al. 2018; Ma and Zhao 2019), the phylogeny of the family still needs further study. All species in the family are saprobes and cause a white rot on many kinds of substrates.

Type genus: Phanerochaete P. Karst., Bidr. Känn. Finl. Nat. Folk 48: 426 (1889).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Phanerochaetaceae.

 

References

Chen CC, Wu SH, Chen CY 2018 – Hydnophanerochaete and Odontoefibula, two new genera of phanerochaetoid fungi (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from East Asia. MycoKeys 39:75–96.

Floudas D, Hibbett D 2015 – Revisiting the taxonomy of Phanerochaete (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) using a four gene dataset and extensive ITS sampling. Fungal Biol 119:679–719.

Justo A, Miettinen O, Floudas D, Ortiz-Santana B, Sjökvist E, Lindner D, Nakasone K, Niemelä T, Larsson KH, Ryvarden L, Hibbet DS 2017 – A revised family-level classification of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota). Fungal Biol 121:798–824.

Ma X, Zhao CL 2019 – Crepatura ellipsospora gen. et sp. nov. in Phanerochaetaceae (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) bearing a tuberculate hymenial surface. Mycol Prog 18:785–793.

Miettinen O, Spirin V, Vlasák J, Rivoire B, Stenroos S, Hibbett DS 2016 – Polypores and genus concepts in Phanerochaetaceae (Polyporales, Basidiomycota). MycoKeys 17:1–46.

Nakasone KK, Draeger KR, Ortiz-Santana B 2017 – A contribution to the taxonomy of Rhizochaete (Polyporales, Basidiomycota). Cryptog Mycol 38:81–99.

Yuan Y, Chen JJ, He SH 2017 – Geliporus exilisporus gen. et. comb. nov., a xanthochroic polypore in Phanerochaetaceae from China. Mycoscience 58:197–203.

 

Entry by

Saranyaphat Boonmee, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand

 

Published online 6 June 2026

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