Anthoporia
Genus of fungi
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Anthoporia is a fungal genus in the family Meripilaceae. It is a monotypic genus, circumscribed in 2016 to contain the single species Anthoporia albobrunnea.[2]
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| Anthoporia | |
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| Anthoporia albobrunnea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Meripilaceae |
| Genus: | Anthoporia Karasiński & Niemelä (2016) |
| Type species | |
| Anthoporia albobrunnea (Romell) Karasiński & Niemelä (2016) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Taxonomy
The fungus was first described scientifically by Swedish mycologist Lars Romell in 1911, who called it Polyporus albobrunneus.[3] Over the following several decades, it was shuffled to several general by different authors:[1] Leptoporus (Pilát, 1938),[4] Poria (D.V.Baxter),[5] Tyromyces (Bondartsev, 1953),[6] Antrodia (Ryvarden, 1973),[7] Coriolellus (Domanski, 1974),[8] and Piloporia (Ginns, 1984).[9]
Habitat and distribution
In 2004, Anthoporia albobrunnea was one of 33 species proposed for protection under the Bern Convention by the European Council for Conservation of Fungi.[10]
