Meripilaceae

Family of fungi

Meripilaceae

Meripilus giganteus
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Fungi
Division:  | Basidiomycota
Class:  | Agaricomycetes
Order:  | Polyporales
Family:  | Meripilaceae
Jülich (1982)
Type genus
Meripilus

P.Karst. (1882)

Synonyms[1]

* Rigidoporaceae Jülich (1981)

The Meripilaceae are a family of fungi in the order Polyporales. The family was circumscribed by Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich in 1982 with Meripilus as the type genus.[2] A 2008 estimate placed 7 genera and 57 species in Meripilaceae.[3] As of April 2018[update], Index Fungorum accepts 74 species in the family.[4]

## Genera[edit]

* Grifola
* Henningsia
* Hydnopolyporus
* Meripilus
* Physisporinus
* Pseudonadsoniella – Antarctic, Argentina, Galindez Island[5]
* Rigidoporus

## References[edit]

1. ^ Justo, Alfredo; Miettinen, Otto; Floudas, Dimitrios; Ortiz-Santana, Beatriz; Sjökvist, Elisabet; Lindner, Daniel; Nakasone, Karen; Niemelä, Tuomo; Larsson, Karl-Henrik; Ryvarden, Leif; Hibbett, David S. (2017). "A revised family-level classification of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota)". Fungal Biology. 121 (9): 798–824. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2017.05.010. PMID 28800851.
2. ^ Jülich, Walter (1982). Higher Taxa of Basidiomycetes. Bibliotheca Mycologica. Vol. 85\. Vaduz: J. Cramer. p. 378\. ISBN 978-3768213240.
3. ^ Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Minter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 418\. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
4. ^ Kirk, P.M. (ed.). "Species Fungorum (version 28th March 2018). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Archived from the original on 30 April 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
5. ^ Kondratyuk, T.O.; Kondratyuk, S.Y.; Morgaienko, O.O.; Khimich, W.V.; Beregova, T.V.; Ostapchenko, L. L. (2015). "Pseudonadsoniella brunnea (Meripilaceae, Agaricomycotina), a new brown yeast-like fungus producing melanin from the Antarctic; with notes on nomenclature and type confusion of Nadsoniella nigra". Acta Botanica Hungarica. 58 (3–4): 291–320. doi:10.1556/034.57.2015.3-4.5.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q2125303
* Wikispecies: Meripilaceae
* AusFungi: 60013544
* BioLib: 141430
* CoL: CLR
* EoL: 5907
* EPPO: 1MERIF
* Fungorum: 80007
* GBIF: 3288
* iNaturalist: 53715
* IRMNG: 108180
* ITIS: 936501
* MycoBank: 80007
* NBN: NHMSYS0001489340
* NCBI: 378266
* NZOR: 0add4282-e20d-411b-b48a-6ebe109373f4
* Open Tree of Life: 1039724
* Plazi: 62C47690-5C71-4298-29D0-2ACDC9B5BA26
* Tropicos: 100370578

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