Family Steccherinaceae
[part of residual clade of Polyporales]
This family contains polypores with pores and other forms with a toothed hymenium. Most of the genera of this family are listed below, with known species for the Chicago Region.
- Antella
- Antrodiella, A. cf. semisupina
- Atraporiella
- Austeria
- Butyrea
- Cabalodontia
- Caudicicola
- Chaetoporus, Junghuhnia nitida
- Citripora
- Etheirodon, E. fimbriatum
- Flabellophora
- Flaviporus
- Frantisekia
- Junghuhnia
- Lamelloporus
- Loweomyces
- Metuloidea
- Mycorrhaphium, M. adustum
- Niemelaea
- Nigroporus
- Steccherinum, S. ochraceum
- Trulla
- Xanthoporus
Taxon Details and Links
Compare Index Fungorum and Mycobank.
- Nomenclature
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- Steccherinaceae , Conspectus Systematis Corticiacearum: 169 (1968). Type: Steccherinum Gray 1821.
- Taxonomy
- Miettinen and Ryvarden (2016) introduced new genera to segregate the polyphyletic Antrodiella, Junghuhnia, and Steccherinum.
- Related links
- Justo, A., O. Miettinen, D. Floudas, B. Ortiz-Santana, E. Sjökvist, D. Lindner, K. K. Nakasone, T. Niemelä, K.-H. Larsson, L. Ryvarden, D.S. Hibbett. 2017. A revised family-level classification of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota), Fungal Biology 121(9): 798-824. DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2017.05.010 [PDF available at Justo Publications]
- Miettinen O., E. Larsson, E. Sjökvist, K-H. Larsson. 2012. Comprehensive taxon sampling reveals unaccounted diversity and morphological plasticity in a group of dimitic polypores (Polyporales, Basidiomycota). Cladistics 28: 251–270. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00380.x
- Miettinen, O., and L. Ryvarden. 2016. Polypore genera Antella, Austeria, Butyrea, Citripora, Metuloidea and Trulla (Steccherinaceae, Polyporales). Annales Botanici Fennici 53:157–172. DOI: 10.5735/085.053.0403.
- Taxon links
- 81420 Steccherinaceae
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum