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Abortiporus

Abortiporus
Abortiporus biennis 197275.jpg
Abortiporus biennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Meruliaceae
Genus: Abortiporus
Murrill (1904)
Type species
Abortiporus biennis
(Schwein.) Murrill (1944)
Species

A. biennis
A. chocoensis
A. roseus

Synonyms

A. biennis
A. chocoensis
A. roseus

Abortiporus is a genus of fungi in the family Meruliaceae. The widely distributed genus contains three species. Species in the genus grow on the wood of hardwoods and conifers, either alone or around the stumps and living trees. It causes a white rot in dead wood and a white trunk rot in living wood. The genus was circumscribed in 1904 by William Alphonso Murrill.



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