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Wolfiporia

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Wolfiporia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Leif Ryvarden and Robert Lee Gilbertson in 1984 to contain the type species Wolfiporia cocos (now known as Wolfiporia extensa) and W. dilatohypha. The genus is named in honor of mycologist Frederick Adolph Wolf, who was the first to officially describe the type species.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Ryvarden, L.; Gilbertson, R.L. (1984). "Type studies in the Polyporaceae. 15. Species described by L.O. Overholts, either alone or with J.L. Lowe". Mycotaxon. 19: 137–144.
^ Dai, Y.C.; Zhou, L.W.; Steffen, K. (2011). "Wood-decaying fungi in eastern Himalayas 1. Polypores from Zixishan Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province". Mycosystema. 30 (5): 674–679.
^ Dai, Y.C. (1998). "Changbai wood-rotting fungi 9. Three new species and other species in Rigidoporus, Skeletocutis and Wolfiporia (Basidiomycota, Aphyllophorales)" (PDF). Annales Botanici Fennici. 35 (2): 143–154.
^ Ginns, J. (1984). "New names, new combinations and new synonymy in the Corticiaceae, Hymenochaetaceae and Polyporaceae". Mycotaxon. 21: 325–333.

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Wolfiporia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Leif Ryvarden and Robert Lee Gilbertson in 1984 to contain the type species Wolfiporia cocos (now known as Wolfiporia extensa) and W. dilatohypha. The genus is named in honor of mycologist Frederick Adolph Wolf, who was the first to officially describe the type species.