Atraporiella is a monotypic fungal genus in the family Steccherinaceae. It contains the crust fungus Atraporiella neotropica, known only from Belize.
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Atraporiella is a monotypic fungal genus in the family Steccherinaceae. It contains the crust fungus Atraporiella neotropica, known only from Belize.
==Taxonomy== Atraporiella is a monotypic genus, containing the single poroid species Atraporiella neotropica, described as new to science by Norwegian mycologist Leif Ryvarden in 2007. This crust fungus is found in Belize, where it grows on decomposing wood. The type collection was made in the Cayo District in November 2001. Molecular analysis suggests that the genus belongs in the family Steccherinaceae.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).