Aporpium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Auriculariales |
Family: | Auriculariaceae |
Genus: | Aporpium Bondartsev & Singer (1944) |
Type species | |
Aporpium canescens | |
Species | |
Aporpium caryae |
Aporpium is a genus of fungi in the order Auriculariales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are formed on dead wood and have a poroid hymenium. Species were often formerly referred to the genera Elmerina or Protomerulius, but molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has shown that Aporpium is a distinct, mainly north temperate genus.[1]