Fomitiporia is a genus of fungi in the family Hymenochaetaceae. According to a 2008 estimate, the widely distributed genus contains 11 species,[1] though three new species were identified in 2010 in sub-Saharan Africa using multigene molecular phylogenetic analysis,[2] and two more were named in a 2013 article.[3] In 2011 it was announced that a specimen of the species F. ellipsoidea was discovered with a fruit body that is largest known of any fungus.[4][5] However, the species has since been moved to Phellinus.
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^ abcdAmalfi M, Yombiyeni P, Antonio Decock D (2010). "Fomitiporia in sub-Saharan Africa: morphology and multigene phylogenetic analysis support three new species from the Guineo-Congolian rainforest". Mycologia. 102 (6): 1301–1317. doi:10.3852/09-083. PMID20943571.
^Zhou L-W, Xue H-J (2012). "Fomitiporia pentaphylacis and F. tenuitubus spp. nov (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) from Guangxi, southern China". Mycological Progress. 11 (4): 907–913. Bibcode:2012MycPr..11..907Z. doi:10.1007/s11557-012-0806-1.
^ abDecock C, Bitew A, Castillo G (2005). "Fomitiporia tenuis and Fomitiporia aethiopica (Basidiomycetes, Hymenochaetales), two undescribed species from the Ethiopian highlands: taxonomy and phylogeny". Mycologia. 97 (1): 121–129. doi:10.3852/mycologia.97.1.121. PMID16389963.
^Amalfi M, Decock T (2013). "Fomitiporia castilloi sp. nov. and multiple clades around F. apiahyna and F. texana in Meso- and South America evidenced by multiloci phylogenetic inferences". Mycologia. 105 (4): 873–887. doi:10.3852/11-423. PMID23709522.
