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Polyporaceae
Sign in to saveThe Polyporaceae () are a family of poroid fungi belonging to the Basidiomycota. The flesh of their fruit bodies varies from soft (as in the case of the dryad's saddle illustrated) to very tough. Most members of this family have their hymenium (fertile layer) in vertical pores on the underside of the caps, but some of them have gills (e.g. Panus) or gill-like structures (such as Daedaleopsis, whose elongated pores form a corky labyrinth). Many species are brackets, but others have a definite stipe – for example, Polyporus badius.
Species
bracket polypores
FAMILY
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderPolyporales
- FamilyPolyporaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,931
- With media
- 194
- Family
- Polyporaceae
- Collections
- UCMP, US, UFPE
- Recorded in
- United States, Guyana, Brasil
Research
4,402 papers- Modern Pro-Health Applications of Medicinal Mushrooms: Insights into the Polyporaceae Family, with a Focus on Cerrena unicolor.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
- Nutritional evaluation on Lignosus cameronensis C. S. Tan, a medicinal Polyporaceae.IUBMB life · 2019
- Transcriptome analysis reveals insight into the protective effect of N-acetylcysteine against cadmium toxicity in Ganoderma lucidum (Polyporales: Polyporaceae).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2023
- Pseudomegasporoporia margallensis sp. nov. and Microporellus subadustus (Polyporaceae, Basidiomycota) newly described and recorded from Pakistan.BMC microbiology · 2024
- Taxonomy of the major rhizomorphic species of the "Melanopus group" within Polyporaceae in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador.PloS one · 2021
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Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Polyporales
- Image
- Polyporus squamosus.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Polyporaceae () are a family of poroid fungi belonging to the Basidiomycota. The flesh of their fruit bodies varies from soft (as in the case of the dryad's saddle illustrated) to very tough. Most members of this family have their hymenium (fertile layer) in vertical pores on the underside of the caps, but some of them have gills (e.g. Panus) or gill-like structures (such as Daedaleopsis, whose elongated pores form a corky labyrinth). Many species are brackets, but others have a definite stipe – for example, Polyporus badius.
Most of these fungi have white spore powder but members of the genus Abundisporus have colored spores and produce yellowish spore prints. Cystidia are absent.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polyporaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.