Rigidoporus
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| Rigidoporus | |
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| Rigidoporus laetus, Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Meripilaceae |
| Genus: | Rigidoporus Murrill (1905) |
| Type species | |
| Rigidoporus lineatus | |
| Species | |
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~ 40, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Rigidoporus is a genus of fungi in the family Meripilaceae. Many of the species in this genus are plant pathogens. The widespread genus, which contains about forty species,[3] was originally circumscribed by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1905.[4] The generic name combines the Latin word rigidus ("rigid") with the Ancient Greek word πόρος ("pore").[5]
