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Sarcoporia

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Sarcoporia is a genus of polypore fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Petter Karsten in 1894, with the widespread fungus Sarcoporia polyspora as the type species.^[1] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek words σάρξ ("flesh") and πόρος ("pore").^[2]

Sarcoporia longitubulata Vlasák & Spirin (2015)^[3] – USA; Macaronesia
Sarcoporia neotropica Ryvarden (2012)^[4] – Costa Rica
Sarcoporia polyspora P.Karst. (1894) – Asia; Europe; North America; South America^[5]

The fungus Sarcoporia salmonicolor (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Teixeira 1986 was made the type species of the monotypic genus Erastia in 2005.^[6]

^ Karsten, P. (1894). "Fragmenta mycologie XLII". Hedwigia (in Latin). 33: 15.
^ Donk, M.A. (1960). "The generic names proposed for Polyporaceae". Persoonia. 1 (2): 173–302.
^ Vlasák, J.; Vlasák, J. Jr; Kinnunen, J.; Spirin, V. (2015). "Geographic distribution of Sarcoporia polyspora and S. longitubulata sp. nov". Mycotaxon. 130 (1): 279–287.
^ Ryvarden, L. (2012). "Studies in neotropical polypores 32". Synopsis Fungorum. 30: 33–43.
^ Baldoni, Daiana Bortoluzzi; Ortiz-Santana, Beatriz; Coelho, Gilberto; Antoniolli, Zaida Inês; Jacques, Rodrigo Josemar Seminoti (2015). "Sarcoporia polyspora (Basidiomycota, Polyporales): a rare wood-decay fungus newly recorded from South America". Nova Hedwigia. 100 (1–2): 177–187. doi:10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2014/0218.
^ Niemelä, T.; Kinnunen, J.; Larsson, K.H.; Schigel, D.D.; Larsson, E. (2005). "Genus revisions and new combinations of some North European polypores". Karstenia. 45 (2): 75–80.

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Sarcoporia is a genus of polypore fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Petter Karsten in 1894, with the widespread fungus Sarcoporia polyspora as the type species. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek words σάρξ ("flesh") and πόρος ("pore").