Wrightoporia is a genus of fungi in the family Bondarzewiaceae. According to a 2008 estimate, the widely distributed genus contains 23 species.[2] The genus was circumscribed by Zdeněk Pouzar in Ceská Mykol. vol.20 on page 173 in 1966.

Wrightoporia
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Bondarzewiaceae
Genus: Wrightoporia
Pouzar (1966)[1]
Type species
Wrightoporia lenta
(Overh. & J.Lowe) Pouzar (1966)

The genus name of Wrightoporia is in honour of Jorge Eduardo Wright (1922–2005), who was an Argentine mycologist.[3]

Species

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As accepted by Species Fungorum;[4]

Former species;

References

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  1. Pouzar Z. (1966). "Studies in the taxonomy of the Polypores I". Ceská Mykologie. 20 (3): 171–7.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 734. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8.
  4. "Wrightoporia - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  5. Chen J-J; Yu H-Y (2012). "Studies on Wrightoporia from China 1. A new species from Hunan Province, South China". Mycotaxon. 120: 295–300. doi:10.5248/120.295.
  6. Loguercio-Leite C, Lehmkuhl Gerber A, Ryvarden L (1998). "Wrightoporia porilacerata, a new species of pore fungi from southern Brazil". Mycotaxon. 66: 251–5.
  7. Chen J-J; Cui B-K (2014). "Studies on Wrightoporia from China 3. Wrightoporia subavellanea sp. nov. based on morphological characters and rDNA sequence data". Phytotaxa. 175 (4): 225–34. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.431.5263. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.175.4.4. Open access icon
  8. Dai YC, Cui BK (2006). "Two new species of Wrightoporia (Basidiomycota, Aphyllophorales) from southern China". Mycotaxon. 96: 199–206.
  9. Núñez, Maria; Ryvarden, Leif (1999). "New and interesting polypores from Japan" (PDF). Fungal Diversity. 3: 107–121.