Sarcoporia is a genus of polypore fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Petter Karsten in 1894, with the widespread fungus Sarcoporia polyspora as the type species.[1] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek words σάρξ ("flesh") and πόρος ("pore").[2]

Sarcoporia
Sarcoporia polyspora
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Sarcoporia

P.Karst. (1894)
Type species
Sarcoporia polyspora
P.Karst. (1894)
Species

S. longitubulata
S. neotropica
S. polyspora

Species edit

The fungus Sarcoporia salmonicolor (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Teixeira 1986 was made the type species of the monotypic genus Erastia in 2005.[6]

References edit

  1. ^ Karsten, P. (1894). "Fragmenta mycologie XLII". Hedwigia (in Latin). 33: 15.
  2. ^ Donk, M.A. (1960). "The generic names proposed for Polyporaceae". Persoonia. 1 (2): 173–302.
  3. ^ Vlasák, J.; Vlasák, J. Jr; Kinnunen, J.; Spirin, V. (2015). "Geographic distribution of Sarcoporia polyspora and S. longitubulata sp. nov". Mycotaxon. 130 (1): 279–287. doi:10.5248/130.279.
  4. ^ Ryvarden, L. (2012). "Studies in neotropical polypores 32". Synopsis Fungorum. 30: 33–43.
  5. ^ Baldoni, Daiana Bortoluzzi; Ortiz-Santana, Beatriz; Coelho, Gilberto; Antoniolli, Zaida Inês; Jacques, Rodrigo Josemar Seminoti (2015). "Sarcoporia polyspora (Basidiomycota, Polyporales): a rare wood-decay fungus newly recorded from South America". Nova Hedwigia. 100 (1–2): 177–187. doi:10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2014/0218.
  6. ^ Niemelä, T.; Kinnunen, J.; Larsson, K.H.; Schigel, D.D.; Larsson, E. (2005). "Genus revisions and new combinations of some North European polypores". Karstenia. 45 (2): 75–80. doi:10.29203/ka.2005.406.