Fungalpedia – Note 2404, Rhodofomitopsis
Rhodofomitopsis B.K. Cui, M.L. Han & Y.C. Dai
Citation when using this data: Yuan HS et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1
Classification: Fomitopsidaceae, Polyporales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi
Rhodofomitopsis was recently segregated from Fomitopsis based on morphological characters and phylogenetic evidence. It differs from Fomitopsis by its rose, violaceous to pinkish brown pore surface and context, round, angular, or slightly labyrinthiform, subdaedaleoid to sinuous-daedaleoid pores and absence of cystidia or other sterile hymenial elements (Han et al. 2016). In our phylogenetic analysis based on the combined dataset of ITS+nLSU+nSSU+mtSSU+RPB2+TEF1 sequences, species of Rhodofomitopsis formed a separate lineage (Fig. 101), and were distant from Fomitopsis and Rubellofomes B.K. Cui, M.L. Han & Y.C. Dai.
Type species: Rhodofomitopsis feei (Fr.) B.K. Cui, M.L. Han & Y.C. Dai, in Han, Chen, Shen, Song, Vlasák, Dai & Cui, Fungal Diversity 80: 366 (2016).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Rhodofomitopsis.
Figure 1 – Basidiocarps of Rhodofomitopsis pseudofeei (Cui 16794, holotype). Scale bar: = 2 cm
References
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