Ceriporia


Ceriporia is a widely distributed genus of crust fungi.

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed by Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk in 1930, with Ceriporia viridans as the type species. The generic name combines the Latin word cera and the name Poria.
Molecular phylogenetic analyses have shown that Ceriporia is not monophyletic, despite an earlier study which suggested the contrary. The presence or absence of cystidia is not considered a phylogenetic character in delimiting the species of Ceriporia.
Although traditionally classified in the family Phanerochaetaceae, recent molecular phylogenetic analysis supports the placement of Ceriporia in the Irpicaceae.

Species

A 2008 estimate placed 22 species in the genus., Index Fungorum accepts 49 species of Ceriporia. Twenty species occur in China; eighteen species are found in the neotropics.