Fungalpedia – Note 2402, Polyporales
Polyporales Gäum.
Citation when using this data: Yuan HS et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Basidiomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi
The order Polyporales is strongly supported as a clade of the Agaricomycetes. About 13 families, 216 genera and 1801 species had been recorded in the order before 2008 according to the 10th edition of Dictionary of the Fungi (Kirk et al. 2008). In the last ten years, many studies focused on the taxonomy and phylogeny of taxa belonging to the Polyporales; one new family, Fragiliporiaceae (Zhao et al. 2015), and many new genera have been proposed in the order (Cui et al. 2011; Li and Cui 2013; Zhao et al. 2013; Li et al. 2014; Zhao et al. 2014; Han et al. 2016; Chen et al. 2017; Cui et al. 2019; Shen et al. 2019). Recently, Justo et al. (2017) provided a revised family-level classification of the Polyporales and proposed three new families. In addition, some economically important species are the memebrs of Polyporales (Dai and Yang 2008, Cao et al. 2012).
References
Cao Y, Wu SH, Dai YC 2012 – Species clarification of the prize medicinal Ganoderma mushroom “Lingzhi”. Fungal Divers 56:49–62.
Chen Q, Yuan Y 2017 – A new species of Fuscoporia (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) from southern China. Mycosphere 8:1238–1245.
Cui BK, Li HJ, Ji X, Zhou JL, Song J, Si J, Yang ZL, Dai YC 2019 – Species diversity, taxonomy and phylogeny of Polyporaceae (Basidiomycota) in China. Fungal Divers 97:137–392.
Cui BK, Zhao CL, Dai YC 2011 – Melanoderma microcarpum gen. et sp. nov. (Basidiomycota) from China. Mycotaxon 116:295–302.
Dai YC, Yang ZL 2008 – A revised checklist of medicinal fungi in China. Mycosystema 27: 801–824.
Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA 2008 – Ainsworth & Bisby’s dictionary of the fungi, 10th edn. CAB International, Wallingford.
Han ML, Chen YY, Shen LL, Song J, Vlasák J, Dai YC, Cui BK 2016 – Taxonomy and phylogeny of the brown-rot fungi: Fomitopsis and its related genera. Fungal Divers 80:343–373.
Justo A, Miettinen O, Floudas D, Ortiz-Santana B, Sjökvist E, Lindner D, Nakasone K, Niemelä T, Larsson K-H, Ryvarden L, Hibbett DS 2017 – A revised family-level classification of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota). Fungal Biol 121:798–824.
Li HJ, Cui BK 2013 – Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Megasporoporia and its related genera. Mycologia 105:368–383.
Li HJ, Cui BK, Dai YC 2014 – Taxonomy and multi-gene phylogeny of Datronia (Polyporales, Basidiomycota). Persoonia 32:170–182.
Shen LL, Wang M, Zhou JL, Xing JH, Cui BK, Dai YC 2019 – Taxonomy and phylogeny of Postia. Multi-gene phylogeny and taxonomy of the brown-rot fungi: Postia and its related genera. Persoonia 42:101–126.
Zhao CL, Cui BK, Steffen KT 2013 – Yuchengia, a new polypore genus segregated from Perenniporia (Polyporales) based on morphological and molecular evidence. Nord J Bot 31:331–338.
Zhao CL, He XS, Wang He KY, Cui BK, Dai YC 2014 – Flammeopellis bambusicola gen. et. sp. nov. (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) evidenced by morphological characters and phylogenetic analysis. Mycol Prog 13:771–780.
Zhao CL, Cui BK, Song J, Dai YC 2015 – Fragiliporiaceae, a new family of Polyporales (Basidiomycota). Fungal Divers 70:115–126.
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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