Neolentiporus
Genus of fungi
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Neolentiporus is a fungal genus in the family Fomitopsidaceae. It contains Neolentiporus squamosellus and the type species N. maculatissimus. The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Mario Rajchenberg in 1995.[1]
| Neolentiporus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Fomitopsidaceae |
| Genus: | Neolentiporus Rajchenb. (1995) |
| Type species | |
| Neolentiporus maculatissimus (Lloyd) Rajchenb. (1995) | |
| Species | |
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N. maculatissimus | |
Description
Neolentiporus is characterized by medium to large fruit bodies that have stipes and a poroid hymenium on the cap underside. The caps are circular to fan-shaped with a scaly surface, and have an off-centre or lateral stipe that sometimes is reduced to a short, robust umbo. The hyphal system is dimitic with clamped, irregularly thick-walled generative hyphae that do not react with cresyl-blue stain. The skeletal hyphae are unbranched, thick-walled, and are strongly metachromatic in cresyl-blue. Spores are cylindrical, hyaline, thin-walled, inamyloid, and binucleate. Neolentiporus causes a brown rot.[1] Molecular phylogenetic analysis shows Neolentiporus to be closely related to Buglossoporus. This latter genus, however, has a monomitic hyphal system in the trama, and lacks metachromatic skeletal hyphae.[2]
