Lopharia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Károly Kalchbrenner and Peter MacOwan in 1881.[1]
Description
Fruit bodies of Lopharia fungi are crust like, to effused-reflexed (like a crust with the edges curled out to form caps). The sterile portion of the crust surface is tomentose, while the spore-bearing surface (the hymenium) is smooth or tuberculate. The colour ranges from greyish-white to cream to pale yellowish.[2]
Lopharia has a dimitic hyphal system, meaning that it contains both generative and skeletal hyphae. The generative hyphae have clamp connections. Basidia are club shaped with four sterigmata, and have a clamp at the base. Spores are cylindrical to ellipsoid in shape with a smooth surface. They are hyaline (translucent), and have oily contents.[2]
Species
A 2008 estimate placed 13 species in Lopharia.[3] As of May 2021, Index Fungorum accepts 15 species:[4]
References
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^ Kalchbrenner, C. (1881). "Fungi MacOwaniani". Grevillea (in Latin). 10 (54): 52–59.
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^ a b Bernicchia, A.; Gorjón, S.P. (2010). Fungi Europaei – Corticiaceae s.l. Vol. 12. Edizioni Candusso. p. 426. ISBN 978-8890105791.
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^ Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Minter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
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^ Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version 28th September 2016). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2016-10-29.
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^ Rick, J. (1938). "Monografia das poliporineas Riograndenses". Brotéria Série Trimestral: Ciências Naturais. 7: 5–21.
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^ Rick, J.E. (1928). "Resumo mycologico". Egatea. 13: 432–439.
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^ a b Rick, J. (1960). "Basidiomycetes Eubasidii in Rio Grande do Sul Brasilia. 4. Meruliaceae, Polyporaceae, Boletaceae". Iheringia. 7: 193–295.
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^ Hennings, P. (1900). "Fungi monsunenses". Monsunia. 1: 137–174 (see p. 144).
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^ Cunningham, G.H. (1963). The Thelephoraceae of Australia and New Zealand. Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Industrial Research. Vol. 145. p. 332.
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^ Reid, Derek A. (1957). "New or interesting records of Australasian Basidiomycetes. III". Kew Bulletin. 12 (1): 127–143. doi:10.2307/4109115. JSTOR 4109115.
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^ Boidin, J.; Gilles, G. (2002). "À propos du genre Lopharia sensu lato (Basidiomycètes, Aphyllophorales)". Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France (in French). 118 (2): 91–115.
