The Fomitopsidaceae are a

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fungi A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one ...

in the order

Polyporales The Polyporales are an order (biology), order of about 1,800 species of fungi in the division (mycology), division Basidiomycota. The order includes some (but not all) polypores as well as many corticioid fungi and a few agarics (mainly in the ge ...

. Most species are

parasitic Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The ent ...

on woody plants, and tend to cause brown rots. The name comes from ''

Fomitopsis ''Fomitopsis'' is a genus of more than 40 species of bracket fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceae. Taxonomy The genus was circumscribed by Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten in 1881 with '' Fomitopsis pinicola'' as the type species. Molecular an ...

'' (meaning "looking like

Fomes ''Fomes'' is a genus of perennial woody fungi in the family Polyporaceae. Species are typically hoof-shaped (ungulate). New growth each season is added to the margin, resulting in a downward extension of the hymenium. This often results in a zo ...

") + ''-aceae'' (a suffix used to form taxonomic family names).

Genera

In a proposed family-level classification of the Polyporales based on

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, Alfredo Justo and colleagues accept 14 genera in the Fomitopsidaceae: ''

Anthoporia ''Anthoporia'' is a fungal genus in the family Meripilaceae. It is a monotypic 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 po ...

'', ''Antrodia'', ''Buglossoporus'', '' Cartilosoma'', ''Daedalea'', ''Fomitopsis'', ''Fragifomes'', '' Melanoporia'', ''Neolentiporus'', ''Niveoporofomes'', '' Rhodofomes'', ''Rhodofomitopsis'', ''Rubellofomes'', and ''Ungulidaedalea''.

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Fomitopsidaceae The Fomitopsidaceae are a family (biology), family of fungi in the order Polyporales. Most species are parasitic on woody plants, and tend to cause Wood-decay fungus#Brown rot, brown rots. The name comes from ''Fomitopsis'' (meaning "looking like ...

Taxa described in 1982 Taxa named by Walter Jülich {{Polyporales-stub