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Meruliaceae
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Phlebia tremellosa , member of the Meruliaceae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Meruliaceae
Rea (1922)
Type genus
Merulius
Fr. (1821)
Synonyms [1]
  • Climacodontaceae Jülich (1981)
  • Phlebiaceae Jülich (1981)

The Meruliaceae are a family of fungi in the order Polyporales. According to a 2008 estimate, the family contains 47 genera and 420 species. [2] As of April 2018, Index Fungorum accepts 645 species in the family. [3]

Taxonomy

The family was formally circumscribed by English mycologist Carleton Rea in 1922, with Merulius as the type genus. He also included the genera Phlebia , Coniophora (now placed in the Coniophoraceae), and Coniophorella (now considered a synonym of Coniophora). His description of the Meruliaceae was as follows: "Hymenium spread over veins, anastomosing pores, or quite smooth; edge of veins or pores fertile." [4] Several genera formerly classified in the Meruliaceae were moved to the family Steccherinaceae based on molecular evidence. [5] [6]

Description

Meruliaceae species are crust-like or polyporoid, and often have a waxy appearance when dry. Their hyphal systems are monomitic (containing only tightly arranged generative hyphae), and these hyphae have clamp connections. The spores are smooth, thin-walled, and hyaline (translucent). Cystidia are often present in the hymenium. Although rare, some species have a dimitic hyphal system (with both generative and skeletal hyphae). Meruliaceae fungi cause white rot. [1]

Genera

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Polyporales</span> Order of fungi

The Polyporales are an order of about 1800 species of fungi in the division Basidiomycota. The order includes some polypores as well as many corticioid fungi and a few agarics. Many species within the order are saprotrophic, most of them wood-rotters. Some genera, such as Ganoderma and Fomes, contain species that attack living tissues and then continue to degrade the wood of their dead hosts. Those of economic importance include several important pathogens of trees and a few species that cause damage by rotting structural timber. Some of the Polyporales are commercially cultivated and marketed for use as food items or in traditional Chinese medicine.

<i>Junghuhnia</i> Genus of fungi

Junghuhnia is a genus of crust fungi in the family Steccherinaceae. It was circumscribed by Czech mycologist August Carl Joseph Corda in 1842. The generic name honours German-Dutch botanist Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn.

Abundisporus is a small genus of poroid fungi currently with seven recognized species. They differ from other polypores in having coloured rather than hyaline spores.

<i>Phanerochaete</i> Genus of fungi

Phanerochaete is a genus of crust fungi in the family Phanerochaetaceae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phanerochaetaceae</span> Family of fungi

The Phanerochaetaceae are a family of mostly crust fungi in the order Polyporales.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steccherinaceae</span> Family of fungi

The Steccherinaceae are a family of about 200 species of fungi in the order Polyporales. It includes crust-like, toothed, and poroid species that cause a white rot in dead wood.

<i>Byssomerulius</i> Genus of fungi

Byssomerulius is a widely distributed genus of crust fungi.

<i>Phlebia</i> Genus of fungi

Phlebia is a genus of mostly crust fungi in the family Meruliaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution. Phlebia species cause white rot.

<i>Mycoacia</i> Genus of fungi

Mycoacia is a genus of toothed crust fungi in the family Meruliaceae. It was circumscribed by Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1931.

<i>Gloeoporus</i> Genus of fungi

Gloeoporus is a genus of crust fungi in the family Irpicaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution.

<i>Ceriporia</i> Genus of fungi

Ceriporia is a widely distributed genus of crust fungi.

<i>Loweomyces</i> Genus of fungi

Loweomyces is a genus of six species of poroid fungi in the family Steccherinaceae.

<i>Steccherinum</i> Genus of fungi

Steccherinum is a widely distributed genus of toothed crust fungi in the family Steccherinaceae.

<i>Aurantiporus</i> Genus of fungi

Aurantiporus is a genus of poroid fungi in the family Meruliaceae. Circumscribed by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1905, the genus contains five species found mostly in northern temperate regions. Molecular analysis of several Aurantiporus species suggests that the genus is not monophyletic, but some other related polypore species need to be sequenced and studied before appropriate taxonomic changes can be made. In 2018, Viktor Papp and Bálint Dima proposed a new genus Odoria to contain Aurantiporus alborubescens based on multigene phylogenetic analyses. The generic name is derived from the Latin aurantius ("orange") and the Ancient Greek πόρος (pore).

<i>Dentocorticium</i> Genus of fungi

Dentocorticium is a genus of six species of poroid fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was revised in 2018, with several new species added and some older species transferred to other genera, based on phylogenetic analyses.

Trulla is a fungal genus in the family Steccherinaceae containing six species of polypores. It was circumscribed by mycologists Otto Miettinen and Leif Ryvarden in 2016, as a continuation of prior work that outlined a revised framework for the Steccherinaceae based on molecular phylogenetics. Its closest relative in the Steccherinaceae is the genus Nigroporus, from which it differs in its light-coloured fruit bodies and monomitic context.

<i>Metuloidea</i> Genus of fungi

Metuloidea is a genus of five species of fungi in the family Steccherinaceae. The genus was circumscribed by New Zealand-based mycologist Gordon Herriot Cunningham in 1965. The type species is M. tawa, a fungus originally described by Cunningham as a species of Trametes. Formerly classified in family Meruliaceae, Metuloidea was moved to the Steccherinaceae in 2016, following prior research that outlined a revised framework for the Steccherinaceae based on molecular phylogenetics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Irpicaceae</span> Family of fungi

The Irpicaceae are a family of mostly polypores and crust fungi in the order Polyporales.

Efibula is a genus of 16 species of crust fungi in the family Irpicaceae.

Aurantiopileus is a genus of three species of poroid fungi in the family Meruliaceae.

References

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  2. ↑ Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Minter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 419. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. ↑ Kirk, P.M. (ed.). "Species Fungorum (version 28th March 2018). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Archived from the original on 22 August 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Rea, Carleton (1922). British Basidiomycetae: A Handbook to the Larger British Fungi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 620.
  5. ↑ Miettinen, Otto; Larsson, Ellen; Sjökvist, Elisabet; Larsson, Karl-Henrik (2012). "Comprehensive taxon sampling reveals unaccounted diversity and morphological plasticity in a group of dimitic polypores (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)". Cladistics. 28 (3): 251–270. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00380.x. PMID   34872189. S2CID   84643554.
  6. ↑ Miettinen, Otto; Ryvarden, Leif (2016). "Polypore genera Antella, Austeria, Butyrea, Citripora, Metuloidea and Trulla (Steccherinaceae, Polyporales)". Annales Botanici Fennici. 53 (3–4): 157–172. doi:10.5735/085.053.0403. S2CID   84739655.
  7. ↑ Ginns, James; Lindner, Daniel L.; Baroni,Timothy J.; Ryvarden, Leif (2010). "Aurantiopileus mayanensis a new genus and species of polypore (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from Belize with connections to existing Asian species". North American Fungi. 5: 1–10. doi: 10.2509/naf2010.005.004 . Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  8. ↑ Wu, Zi-Qiang; Xu, Tai-Min; Shen, Shan; Liu, Xiang-Fu; Luo, Kai-Yue; Zhao, Chang-Lin (2018). "Elaphroporia ailaoshanensis gen. et sp. nov. in Polyporales (Basidiomycota)". MycoKeys. 29 (29): 81–95. doi: 10.3897/mycokeys.29.22086 . PMC   5804141 . PMID   29559827.
  9. ↑ Chen C-C, Wu S-H, Chen C-Y (2018). "Hydnophanerochaete and Odontoefibula, two new genera of phanerochaetoid fungi (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from East Asia". MycoKeys. 39: 75–96. doi: 10.3897/mycokeys.39.28010 .
  10. ↑ Wu, Fang; Yuan, Yuan; Chen, Jia-Jia; He, Shuang-Hui (2016). "Luteoporia albomarginata gen. et sp. nov. (Meruliaceae, Basidiomycota) from tropical China". Phytotaxa. 263 (1): 31–41. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.263.1.3.
  11. ↑ Zmitrovich, Ivan V.; Ezhov, Oleg N.; Khimich, Yulia R. (2017). "Niemelaea, a new genus of Meruliaceae (Basidiomycota)". Agriculture and Forestry. 61 (4): 23–31. doi: 10.17707/AgricultForest.61.4.02 .
  12. ↑ Papp, Viktor; Dima, Bálint (2018). "New systematic position of Aurantiporus alborubescens (Meruliaceae, Basidiomycota), a threatened old-growth forest polypore". Mycological Progress. 17 (3): 319–332. doi:10.1007/s11557-017-1356-3. S2CID   255312849.
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