''Anthoporia'' is a fungal
genus
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in the family
Meripilaceae
The Meripilaceae are a family (biology), family of fungi in the order Polyporales. The family was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich in 1982 with ''Meripilus'' as the type (biology), type genus. A 2008 e ...
. It is a
monotypic
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genus,
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
in 2016 to contain the single species ''Anthoporia albobrunnea''.
Taxonomy
The fungus was first
described scientifically by Swedish mycologist
Lars Romell in 1911, who called it ''Polyporus albobrunneus''.
Over the following several decades, it was shuffled to several general by different authors:
''
Leptoporus'' (
Pilát, 1938),
''
Poria'' (
D.V.Baxter),
''
Tyromyces'' (
Bondartsev, 1953),
''
Antrodia'' (
Ryvarden, 1973),
''
Coriolellus'' (Domanski, 1974),
and ''
Piloporia'' (Ginns, 1984).
Habitat and distribution
In 2004, ''Anthoporia albobrunnea'' was one of 33 species proposed for protection under the Bern Convention by the European Council for Conservation of Fungi.
References
Taxa described in 2016
Fungi of Europe
Fomitopsidaceae
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