Flaviporus Explained

Flaviporus is a genus of poroid fungi in the family Steccherinaceae.

Taxonomy

Flaviporus was circumscribed by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1905. He designated the type species as Flaviporus rufoflavus; this taxon is now considered the same as Flaviporus brownii. The generic name combines the Latin word flavus ("light yellow") with the Ancient Greek Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: πόρος (pore).

Description

Murrill described the characteristics of Flaviporus as follows: "Hymenium annual, often reviving, epixylous, sessile, dimidiate, imbricate; surface encrusted, glabrous: context thick, woody, brown; tubes thin-walled, minute, regular: spores smooth, hyaline."

Species

• Flaviporus americanus (Ryvarden & Gilb.) Ginns (1984)
• Flaviporus brownii (Humb.) Donk (1960)
• Flaviporus citrinellus (Niemelä & Ryvarden) Ginns (1984)
• Flaviporus delicatus A.David & Rajchenb. (1992) – Africa
• Flaviporus hunua (G.Cunn.) Ginns (1984)
• Flaviporus hydrophilus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Ginns (1980)
• Flaviporus liebmannii (Fr.) Ginns (1980)
• Flaviporus minutisporus (D.A.Reid, K.S.Thind & Chatr.) Ginns (1980) – Uttar Pradesh
• Flaviporus stramineus (Bres.) Ginns (1984)
• Flaviporus subhydrophilus (Speg.) Rajchenb. & J.E.Wright (1987)
• Flaviporus venustus A.David & Rajchenb. (1985) – Martinique
• Flaviporus xanthus A.David & Rajchenb. (1992) – Africa