Oxyporus latemarginatus

Oxyporus latemarginatus is a shelf fungus which is significant as a plant pathogen causing white rot in trees.^[1] It does not belong to the "true" shelf fungi or polypores (Polyporales), but instead to the more ancient Hymenochaetales.

Division:Basidiomycota

Class:Agaricomycetes

Order:Hymenochaetales

Family:Schizoporaceae

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Oxyporus latemarginatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Hymenochaetales
Family:	Schizoporaceae
Genus:	Oxyporus
Species:	O. latemarginatus
Binomial name
Oxyporus latemarginatus (Durieu & Mont.) Donk (1966)
Synonyms
Chaetoporus ambiguus (Bres.) Bondartsev & Singer (1941) Irpex concrescens Lloyd (1915) Polyporus cokeri Murrill (1920) Polyporus latemarginatus Durieu & Mont. (1856) Polyporus roseitingens Murrill (1920) Poria ambigua Bres. (1897) Poria cokeri Murrill (1920) Poria excurrens var. macrostoma Speg. (1898) Poria geoderma Speg. (1898) Poria lacerata Murrill (1920) Poria latemarginata (Durieu & Mont.) Cooke (1886) Poria roseitingens Murrill (1920) Poria salicina Murrill (1920) Rigidoporus latemarginatus (Durieu & Mont.) Pouzar (1966) Trametes latemarginata (Durieu & Mont.) Pat. (1904)

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This species is a favored food of adults and larvae of the widespread American pleasing fungus beetle Ischyrus quadripunctatus.^[2]