Fomitopsis
| Fomitopsis | |
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| Fomitopsis pinicola | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Fomitopsidaceae |
| Genus: |
Fomitopsis P.Karst. (1881) |
| Type species | |
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Fomitopsis pinicola (Sw.) P.Karst. (1881) |
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| Synonyms | |
Fomitopsis is a genus of bracket fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten in 1881 with Fomitopsis pinicola as the type species.Molecular analysis indicates that Fomitopsis belongs to the antrodia clade, which contains about 70 percent of brown-rot fungi. Other genera that join Fomitopsis in the core antrodia group include Amyloporia, Antrodia, Daedalea, Melanoporia, Piptoporus, and Rhodonia.
The whole genome sequence of Fomitopsis palustris was reported in 2017.
The name means "having the appearance of Fomes".
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