Gelatoporia

Gelatoporia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Gelatoporiaceae
Genus:	Gelatoporia Niemelä (1985)
Type species
Gelatoporia subvermispora (Pilát) Niemelä (1985)

Gelatoporia is a fungal genus in the family Gelatoporiaceae.^[1] This is a monotypic genus, containing the single widely distributed species Gelatoporia subvermispora.^[2] The genus was circumscribed in 1985 by Finnish mycologist Tuomo Niemelä to contain poroid crust fungi with a monomitic hyphal structure, clamped hyphae, and producing white rot.^[3]

References

1. Justo, Alfredo; Miettinen, Otto; Floudas, Dimitrios; Ortiz-Santana, Beatriz; Sjökvist, Elisabet; Lindner, Daniel; Nakasone, Karen; Niemelä, Tuomo; Larsson, Karl-Henrik; Ryvarden, Leif; Hibbett, David S. (2017). "A revised family-level classification of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota)". Fungal Biology. 121: 798–824. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2017.05.010. PMID 28800851.
2. Miettinen O; Rajchenberg M. (2011). "Obba and Sebipora, new polypore genera related to Cinereomyces and Gelatoporia (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)". Mycological Progress. 11: 131. doi:10.1007/s11557-010-0736-8. hdl:11336/194489.
3. Niemelä, Tuomo (1985). "On Fennoscandian polypores 9. Gelatoporia n.gen. and Tyromyces canadensis, plus notes on Skeletocutis and Antrodia" (PDF). Karstenia. 25: 21–40. doi:10.29203/ka.1985.233.