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Wrightoporia
Sign in to saveWrightoporia is a genus of fungi in the family Bondarzewiaceae. According to a 2008 estimate, the widely distributed genus contains 23 species. The genus was circumscribed by Zdeněk Pouzar in Ceská Mykol. vol.20 on page 173 in 1966.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderRussulales
- FamilyBondarzewiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 15
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Bondarzewiaceae
- Collections
- FLAS, UFPE, UFSC, UEFS, MNHN, CEPLAC
- Recorded in
- United States, Brasil, Madagascar, China
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Bondarzewiaceae
- Named after
- Jorge Eduardo Wright
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Wrightoporia
- taxon author citation
- Pouzar
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Encyclopedic overview
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Wrightoporia is a genus of fungi in the family Bondarzewiaceae. According to a 2008 estimate, the widely distributed genus contains 23 species. The genus was circumscribed by Zdeněk Pouzar in Ceská Mykol. vol.20 on page 173 in 1966.
The genus name of Wrightoporia is in honour of Jorge Eduardo Wright (1922–2005), who was an Argentine mycologist.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wrightoporia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.