Order
Polyporales (Shelf fungi)
Bjerkandera adusta. Photo: (c) nagelhoutandre, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The Polyporales are an order of about 1800 species of fungi in the division Basidiomycota. The order includes some (but not all) polypores as well as many corticioid fungi and a few agarics (mainly in the genus Lentinus). Many species within the order are saprotrophic, most of them wood-rotters. Some genera, such as Ganoderma and Fomes, contain species that attack living tissues and then continue to degrade the wood of their dead hosts. Those of economic…
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Humboldt Life
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Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
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Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
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Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
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Class: Agaricomycetes
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Order: Polyporales (Shelf fungi)
- Family: Polyporaceae (Bracket fungi) (18)
- Family: Irpicaceae (6)
- Family: Incrustoporiaceae (2)
- Family: Laetiporaceae (2)
- Family: Fomitopsidaceae (Bracket polypores) (11)
- Family: Postiaceae (2)
- Family: Phanerochaetaceae (3)
- Family: Meruliaceae (4)
- Family: Dacryobolaceae (1)
- Family: Phaeolaceae (1)
- Family: Laricifomitaceae (1)
- Family: Sparassidaceae (Cauliflower fungi and allies) (1)
- Family: Podoscyphaceae (1)
- Family: Panaceae (1)
- Family: Steccherinaceae (1)
- Family: Cerrenaceae (1)
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Order: Polyporales (Shelf fungi)
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Class: Agaricomycetes
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Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
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Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
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Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
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