
Family Steccherinaceae
Conspectus Systematis Corticiacearum: 169 (1968)
Type: Steccherinum Gray (1821)
This family contains polypores and forms with a toothed hymenium. Most of the genera of this family are listed below, with known species for the Chicago Region.
- Antella
- Antrodiella
- 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
- Taxonomy:
- Miettinen and Ryvarden (2016) introduced new genera to segregate the polyphyletic Antrodiella, Junghuhnia, and Steccherinum.
- Related links:
- 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.
- Miettinen O., L. Ryvarden. 2016. Polypore genera Antella, Austeria, Butyrea, Citripora, Metuloidea and Trulla (Steccherinaceae, Polyporales). Annales Botanici Fennici 53(3-4):157-172.
- Taxon links:
- 81420 MycoBank ; Index Fungorum