Ceriporia purpurea

Ceriporia purpurea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Irpicaceae
Genus:	Ceriporia
Species:	C. purpurea
Binomial name
Ceriporia purpurea (Fr.) Donk (1971)
Synonyms
Polyporus purpureus Fr. (1821) Physisporus purpureus (Fr.) Gillet (1878) Poria purpurea (Fr.) Cooke (1886) Merulioporia purpurea (Fr.) Bondartsev & Singer (1941) Merulioporia purpurea (Fr.) Bondartsev & Singer (1953) Meruliopsis purpurea (Fr.) Bondartsev (1959) Ceriporia purpurea (Fr.) Komarova (1964) Gloeoporus purpureus (Fr.) Zmitr. & Spirin (2006)

Ceriporia purpurea is a species of crust fungus in the family Irpicaceae. It was first described by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in 1821 as Polyporus purpureus.^[1] Marinus Anton Donk gave the fungus its current name when he transferred it to the genus Ceriporia in 1971.^[2]

A 2016 study identified six similar Ceriporia species, referred to as the Ceriporia purpurea group: Ceriporia bresadolae, the European species C. torpida and C. triumphalis, and the North American species C. manzanitae and C. occidentalis. Ceriporia purpurea is widely distributed in the temperate zone of Eurasia, where it grows exclusively on the decomposing wood of deciduous trees, and also in the American North-East.^[3]

References

1. Fries, E.M. (1821). Systema Mycologicum (in Latin). Vol. 1. Lundae: Ex Officina Berlingiana. p. 379.
2. Donk, M.A. (1971). "Notes on European polypores – VII". Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Section C. 74 (1): 25–41.
3. Spirin, Viacheslav; Vlasák, Josef; Rivoire, Bernard; Kout, Jiří; Kotiranta, Heikki; Miettinen, Otto (2016). "Studies in the Ceriporia purpurea Group (Polyporales, Basidiomycota), with notes on similar Ceriporia species". Cryptogamie, Mycologie. 37 (4): 421–435. doi:10.7872/crym/v37.iss4.2016.421. S2CID 90271350.