Nigroporus vinosus
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Steccherinaceae |
| Genus: | Nigroporus |
| Species: | N. vinosus |
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Nigroporus vinosus (Berk.) Murrill (1905) |
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Nigroporus vinosus is a species of poroid fungus in the family Steccherinaceae, and the type species of the genus Nigroporus. Its fruit bodies have brownish caps with tinges of purple or red. The cap underside has a pore surface the same colour as the cap, and minute pores. Nigroporus vinosus has a pantropical distribution. It has been recorded from Africa, North America, Central America, South America, Asia, and Oceania. It is a wood-decay fungus that causes a white rot.
The fungus was first described scientifically by Miles Joseph Berkeley as Polyporus vinosus in 1852. The type was collected in Saint-Domingue by Augustus Sallé. Berkeley called the fungus "a very remarkable species, to which I can point out nothing closely allied."William Alphonso Murrill made it the type species of his newly created genus Nigroporus in 1905. He noted that the fungus was "easily recognized by its wine-coloured context."
In the interim between Berkeley and Murrill's nomenclatural changes, the species was shuffled between several genera: Polystictus (Saccardo, 1888);Microporus (Kuntze, 1898); and Coriolus (Patouillard, 1900). In 1952, Rokuya Imazeki proposed a transfer to Fomitopsis.
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