Family Meripilaceae
[part of residual clade of Polyporales]
All three genera are found in North America. Rigidoporus is recorded in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii.
- Meripilus, M. sumstinei
- Physisporinus
- Rigidoporus
Taxon Details and Links
- Nomenclature
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- Meripilaceae , Bibliotheca Mycologica 85: 378 (1981). Type: Meripilus P. Karst. 1882.
- Taxonomy
- Note that Grifola is not related to Meripilus but rather placed in its own family Grifolaceae. Some species of Rigidoporus are placed in the Cerrenaceae (Justo et al. 2017).
- 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.
- Taxon links
- 80007 Meripilaceae
- MycoBank
- Index Fungorum