Fibroporia albicans is a species of poroid crust fungus in the family Fomitopsidaceae. It causes a brown rot. The fungus was described in 2015 as a species new to science, based on collections made in Jiangxi and Xizang Provinces, China. It is one of five Fibroporia species recorded in China.[1]

Fibroporia albicans
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F. albicans
Binomial name
Fibroporia albicans
B.K.Cui & Yuan Y.Chen (2015)

Description

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Fibroporia albicans is characterized by crust-like, annual fruit bodies with a white to cream-colored fresh pore surface that darkens to cream or cream-buff after drying. The pores are small, measuring 6–8 per millimeter, and there are white to cream rhizomorphs. Fibroporia albicans has a dimitic hyphal system with clamped generative hyphae, fuse-shaped cystidioles, and oblong to ellipsoid spores that measure 4–5.2 by 3–3.8 μm.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Chen, Yuan-Yuan; Li, Hai-Jiao; Cui, Bao-Kai (2015). "Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of Fibroporia (Basidiomycota) in China". Phytotaxa. 203 (1): 47–54. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.203.1.4.