Lopharia
Genus of fungi
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Lopharia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Károly Kalchbrenner and Peter MacOwan in 1881.[1]
| Lopharia | |
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| Fruitbody of the resupinate fungus Lopharia spadicea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Polyporaceae |
| Genus: | Lopharia Kalchbr. & MacOwan (1881) |
| Type species | |
| Lopharia lirellosa Kalchbr. & MacOwan (1881) | |
Description
Fruit bodies of Lopharia fungi are crust like, to effused-reflexed (like a crust with the edges curled out to form caps). The sterile portion of the crust surface is tomentose, while the spore-bearing surface (the hymenium) is smooth or tuberculate. The colour ranges from greyish-white to cream to pale yellowish.[2]
Lopharia has a dimitic hyphal system, meaning that it contains both generative and skeletal hyphae. The generative hyphae have clamp connections. Basidia are club shaped with four sterigmata, and have a clamp at the base. Spores are cylindrical to ellipsoid in shape with a smooth surface. They are hyaline (translucent), and have oily contents.[2]
Species
A 2008 estimate placed 13 species in Lopharia.[3] As of May 2021[update], Index Fungorum accepts 15 species:[4]
- Lopharia albida Rick (1938)[5]
- Lopharia americana Rick (1928)[6]
- Lopharia amethystea (Hjortstam & Ryvarden) A.L.Welden (2010)
- Lopharia bambusae Rick (1960)[7]
- Lopharia cinerascens (Schwein.) G.Cunn. (1956)
- Lopharia cystidiosa (Rehill & B.K.Bakshi) Boidin (1969)
- Lopharia javanica Henn. & E.Nyman (1900)[8]
- Lopharia lilacina (Berk. & Broome) A.L.Welden (2010)
- Lopharia ochracea G.Cunn. (1963)[9]
- Lopharia papyracea (Bres.) D.A.Reid (1957)[10]
- Lopharia papyrina (Mont.) Boidin (1959)
- Lopharia pilosiuscula (Hjortstam & Ryvarden) A.L.Welden (2010)
- Lopharia pseudocinerascens Boidin & Gilles (2003)[11]
- Lopharia rimosissima Rick (1960)[7]
- Lopharia rugulosa (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Hjortstam (1995)
