Rigidoporus | |
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Rigidoporus laetus, Australia | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Polyporales |
Family: | Meripilaceae |
Genus: |
Rigidoporus Murrill (1905) |
Type species | |
Rigidoporus lineatus (Pers.) Ryvarden (1972) |
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Species | |
~ 40, see text |
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Synonyms | |
~ 40, see text
Rigidoporus is a genus of fungi in the family Meripilaceae. Many of the species in this genus are plant pathogens. The widespread genus, which contains about 40 species, was originally circumscribed by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1905.