Oligoporus [SEP] parent taxon
Oligoporus
Oligoporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by German mycologist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1888 with "Oligoporus farinosus" as the type. This species is currently known as "Postia rennyi". The genus name combines the Ancient Greek words ("few") and ("pore").
"Oligoporus" species have fruit bodies that are either crust-like or pileate (i.e., with a cap). Species cause a brown rot of wood. The hyphal structure
is monomytic, meaning that only generative hyphae are produced. Spores made by "Oligoporus" fungi are ellipsoid or have a short cylindrical shape.
Species.
A 2008 estimate placed 10 species in "Oligoporus"; , Index Fungorum accepts 13 species.
- "Oligoporus alni" – Europe
- "Oligoporus balsaminus" – Eurasia
- "Oligoporus bambusicola"
- "Oligoporus cretaceitextus"
- "Oligoporus davidiae"
- "Oligoporus dissectus"
- "Oligoporus friesii"
- "Oligoporus hydnoidea