Abundisporus
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| Abundisporus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Polyporaceae |
| Genus: | Abundisporus Ryvarden (1999) |
| Type species | |
| Abundisporus fuscopurpureus (Pers.) Ryvarden (1999) | |
| Species | |
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A. fuscopurpureus | |
Abundisporus is a small genus of poroid fungi currently with seven recognized species. They differ from other polypores in having coloured rather than hyaline spores.
The genus was circumscribed by Norwegian mycologist Leif Ryvarden in 1999, who included the morphological similar fungi Abundisporus roseoalbus, A. violaceus, and the type species, A. fuscopurpureus.[1] Molecular phylogenetic analysis suggests that Abundisporus is monophyletic,[2] and is clustered in the "core polyporoid clade", a phylogenetic grouping of fungi roughly equivalent in composition to the family Polyporaceae.[3][4][5]