Belongs within: Polyporaceae.
Polyporus is a genus of wood-growing fungi causing white rot.
Characters (from Sotome et al. 2008): Basidiocarps stipitate, growing on wood or arising from a sclerotium; hyphal system dimitic with arboriform vegetative hyphae; basidiospores cylindric, smooth; causing a white rot.
<==Polyporus Fr. 1815 (see below for synonymy)KC01
|--+--*P. tuberasterJM17, BH05
| `--P. variusBH05
`--+--+--P. melanopusBH05
| `--P. tenuiculusBH05
`--+--P. squamosusBH05
`--Datronia Donk 1967BH05, KC01
|--D. caperataAHR03
|--D. mollisBH05
`--D. scutellataJM17
Polyporus incertae sedis:
P. adustusB30
P. alboluteusH96
P. arculariusBH05
P. cinnabarinusT-W89
P. cubensisJ87
P. dictyopusAHR03
P. guianensisAHR03
P. leprieuriiAHR03
P. lucidusT-W89
P. mylittae [incl. Mylitta australis]KC01
P. palustrisPHK96
P. puttemansiiAHR03
P. rhizomorphusAHR03
P. sacerKC01
P. tumulosusKC01
P. umbellatusK03
P. versicolorJ87
P. vinosusJ87
Polyporus Fr. 1815 [incl. Atroporus Ryvarden 1973, Bresadolia Speg. 1883, Caloporus Quél. 1886 non Karst. 1881, Cerioporus Quél. 1886, Cyanosporus McGinty 1909, Dendropolyporus (Pouzar) Jülich 1982, Favolus Fr. 1828 non Beauv. 1805, Hexagonia Pollini 1816 non Fr. 1835, Leucoporus Quél. 1886, Melanopus Pat. 1887, Mycelithe Gasp. 1841, Petaloides Lloyd ex Torrend 1920]KC01
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[AHR03] Aime, M. C., T. W. Henkel & L. Ryvarden. 2003. Studies in neotropical polypores 15: New and interesting species from Guyana. Mycologia 95 (4): 614–619.
[BH05] Binder, M., D. S. Hibbett, K.-H. Larsson, E. Larsson, E. Langer & G. Langer. 2005. The phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms across the major clades of mushroom-forming fungi (Homobasidiomycetes). Systematics and Biodiversity 3 (2): 113–157.
[B30] Bose, S. R. 1930. The biology of wood-rotting fungi. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 141: 33.
[H96] Hanley, R. S. 1996. Immature stages of Scaphisoma castaneum Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae), with observations on natural history, fungal hosts and development. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 96 (1): 36–43.
[J87] Judd, W. S. 1987. Floristic study of Morne La Visite and Pic Macaya National Parks, Haiti. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum—Biological Sciences 32 (1): 1–136.
[JM17] Justo, A., O. Miettinen, D. Floudas, B. Ortiz-Santana, E. Sjökvist, D. Lindner, K. Nakasone, T. Niemelä, K.-H. Larsson, L. Ryvarden & D. S. Hibbett. 2017. A revised family-level classification of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota). Fungal Biology 121: 798–824.
[KC01] Kirk, P. M., P. F. Cannon, J. C. David & J. A. Stalpers. 2001. Ainsworth & Bisby’s Dictionary of the Fungi 9th ed. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).
[K03] Kulip, J. 2003. An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal and other useful plants of Muruts in Sabah, Malaysia. Telopea 10 (1): 81–98.
[PHK96] Prescott, L. M., J. P. Harley & D. A. Klein. 1996. Microbiology 3rd ed. Wm. C. Brown Publishers: Dubuque (Iowa).
Sotome, K., T. Hattori, Y. Ohta, C. To-anun, B. Salleh & M. Kakishima. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships of Polyporus and morphologically allied genera. Mycologia 100 (4): 603–615.
[T-W89] Tenison-Woods, J. E. 1889. On the vegetation of Malaysia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 4 (1): 9–106, pls 1–9.