Lopharia

Lopharia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Károly Kalchbrenner and Peter MacOwan in 1881.[1]

Lopharia
Fruitbody of the resupinate fungus Lopharia spadicea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Polyporales
Family:
Polyporaceae
Genus:
Lopharia

Kalchbr. & MacOwan (1881)
Type species
Lopharia lirellosa
Kalchbr. & MacOwan (1881)

Description

Fruit bodies of Lopharia fungi are crust like, to effused-reflexed (like a crust with the edges curled out to form caps). The sterile portion of the crust surface is tomentose, while the spore-bearing surface (the hymenium) is smooth or tuberculate. The colour ranges from greyish-white to cream to pale yellowish.[2]

Lopharia has a dimitic hyphal system, meaning that it contains both generative and skeletal hyphae. The generative hyphae have clamp connections. Basidia are club shaped with four sterigmata, and have a clamp at the base. Spores are cylindrical to ellipsoid in shape with a smooth surface. They are hyaline (translucent), and have oily contents.[2]

Species

A 2008 estimate placed 13 species in Lopharia.[3] As of May 2021, Index Fungorum accepts 15 species:[4]

  • Lopharia albida Rick (1938)[5]
  • Lopharia americana Rick (1928)[6]
  • Lopharia amethystea (Hjortstam & Ryvarden) A.L.Welden (2010)
  • Lopharia bambusae Rick (1960)[7]
  • Lopharia cinerascens (Schwein.) G.Cunn. (1956)
  • Lopharia cystidiosa (Rehill & B.K.Bakshi) Boidin (1969)
  • Lopharia javanica Henn. & E.Nyman (1900)[8]
  • Lopharia lilacina (Berk. & Broome) A.L.Welden (2010)
  • Lopharia ochracea G.Cunn. (1963)[9]
  • Lopharia papyracea (Bres.) D.A.Reid (1957)[10]
  • Lopharia papyrina (Mont.) Boidin (1959)
  • Lopharia pilosiuscula (Hjortstam & Ryvarden) A.L.Welden (2010)
  • Lopharia pseudocinerascens Boidin & Gilles (2003)[11]
  • Lopharia rimosissima Rick (1960)[7]
  • Lopharia rugulosa (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Hjortstam (1995)

References
  1. Kalchbrenner, C. (1881). "Fungi MacOwaniani". Grevillea (in Latin). 10 (54): 52–59.
  2. Bernicchia, A.; Gorjón, S.P. (2010). Fungi Europaei – Corticiaceae s.l. Vol. 12. Edizioni Candusso. p. 426. ISBN 978-8890105791.
  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. 392. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  4. Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version 28th September 2016). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  5. Rick, J. (1938). "Monografia das poliporineas Riograndenses". Brotéria Série Trimestral: Ciências Naturais. 7: 5–21.
  6. Rick, J.E. (1928). "Resumo mycologico". Egatea. 13: 432–439.
  7. Rick, J. (1960). "Basidiomycetes Eubasidii in Rio Grande do Sul Brasilia. 4. Meruliaceae, Polyporaceae, Boletaceae". Iheringia. 7: 193–295.
  8. Hennings, P. (1900). "Fungi monsunenses". Monsunia. 1: 137–174 (see p. 144).
  9. Cunningham, G.H. (1963). The Thelephoraceae of Australia and New Zealand. Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Industrial Research. Vol. 145. p. 332.
  10. Reid, Derek A. (1957). "New or interesting records of Australasian Basidiomycetes. III". Kew Bulletin. 12 (1): 127–143. doi:10.2307/4109115. JSTOR 4109115.
  11. Boidin, J.; Gilles, G. (2002). "À propos du genre Lopharia sensu lato (Basidiomycètes, Aphyllophorales)". Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France (in French). 118 (2): 91–115.


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