Hexagonia (fungus)

Hexagonia
Hexagonia hydnoides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Polyporaceae
Genus:	Hexagonia Fr. (1838)
Type species
Favolus hirtus (P.Beauv.) Fr. (1838)
Synonyms
Apoxona Donk (1969) Pherima Raf. (1819) Phorima Raf. (1830) Pogonomyces Murrill (1904) Polyporus trib. Scenidium Klotzsch (1832) Scenidium (Klotzsch) Kuntze (1898)

Hexagonia is a genus of poroid fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in tropical regions.^[1] The generic name is derived from the Latin word hexagonus, meaning "with six angles".^[2]

Species

As of October 2016^[update], Index Fungorum accepts 41 species in Hexagonia:^[3]

• Hexagonia amplexens Pat. (1902)
• Hexagonia angulata Lloyd (1920)
• Hexagonia annamitica Pat. (1927)
• Hexagonia applanata (Bres.) Lloyd (1920)
• Hexagonia assaortina Sacc. & Bacc. (1917)
• Hexagonia bartlettii Massee (1908)
• Hexagonia bicolor McAlpine (1904)
• Hexagonia bivalvis (Pers.) Bres. (1913)
• Hexagonia burchellii Lloyd (1910)
• Hexagonia caliginosa Lloyd (1922)
• Hexagonia caperata (Pat.) Murrill (1904)
• Hexagonia casuarinae Pat. (1901)
• Hexagonia cucullata (Mont.) Murrill (1904) – Cameroon
• Hexagonia culmicola Niemelä & Kotir. (2015)^[4]
• Hexagonia cuprea Bres. (1911)
• Hexagonia dermatiphora Lloyd (1911)
• Hexagonia fioriana Sacc. (1910)
• Hexagonia fuscoglabra Lloyd (1922)
• Hexagonia heteropora (Mont.) Imazeki (1943)
• Hexagonia hydnoides (Sw.) M. Fidalgo (1968)
• Hexagonia leprosa Fr. (1851) – Pernambuco
• Hexagonia mirabilis Lloyd (1910)
• Hexagonia olivacea Lloyd (1914)
• Hexagonia phaeopora Pat. (1907)
• Hexagonia pobeguinii Har. (1892) – Africa
• Hexagonia purpurascens (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1904)
• Hexagonia retropicta (Bres.) Lloyd (1922)
• Hexagonia reyesii Pat. (1914)
• Hexagonia rhodopora Pat. (1912)
• Hexagonia seuratii Pat. (1906)
• Hexagonia similis Berk. (1846) – New South Wales
• Hexagonia tenuiformis Murrill (1912)
• Hexagonia tenuis (Hook.) Fr. (1838) – Africa; Asia; South America
• Hexagonia umbrinella Fr. (1845)
• Hexagonia umbrosa Lloyd (1920)
• Hexagonia velutina Pat. & Har. (1893)
• Hexagonia vesparia (Berk.) Ryvarden (1972) – Australia
• Hexagonia warburgiana (Henn.) Teixeira (1992)
• Hexagonia wightii (Klotzsch) Fr. (1838)
• Hexagonia zambeziana Torrend (1914)

References

1. Kirk, P.M.; Cannon, P.F.; Minter, D.W.; Stalpers, J.A. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
2. Donk, M.A. (1960). "The generic names proposed for Polyporaceae". Persoonia. 1 (2): 173–302.
3. Kirk, P.M. "Species Fungorum (version 28th September 2016). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 30 October 2015.
4. Härkönen, M.; Niemelä, T.; Mbindo, K.; Kotiranta, H.; Piearce, G. (2015). "Zambian mushrooms and mycology". Norrlinia. 29: 200.

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