Perenniporia

Perenniporia
Perenniporia medulla-panis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae
Genus: Perenniporia
Murrill (1942)
Type species
Perenniporia medulla-panis
(Jacq.) Donk (1967)
Synonyms
  • Poria Pers. (1794)
  • Leptopora Raf. (1808)
  • Physisporus Chevall. (1826)
  • Poroptyche Beck (1888)
  • Merulioporia Bondartsev & Singer (1941)
  • Merulioporia Bondartsev & Singer (1943)
  • Riopa D.A.Reid (1969)
  • Loweporus J.E.Wright (1976)
  • Hornodermoporus Teixeira (1993)

Perenniporia is a cosmopolitan genus of bracket-forming or crust-like polypores in the family Polyporaceae. They are dimitic or trimitic with smooth, thick-walled basidiospores and cause a white rot in affected wood.

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