Efibula Sheng H. Wu

Index Fungorum number: IF 25473; MycoBank number: MB 25473

Notes – Efibula was described by Wu (1990) to accommodate species previously included in Phlebia (Ph. deflectens) and Phanerochaete (Ph. avellanea and Ph. pallidovirens, in addition, two new species Efibula lutea and Efibula tropica were also described and proposing E. tropica as the generic type. Two more species were accommodated in the genus by Kotiranka and Saarenoska (1993) i.e., Efibula rosea and E. verruculosa. Zmitrovich et al. (2006) enlarged the
genus with eight more species, E. aurata, E. bubalina, E. cordylines, E. corymbata, E. ginnsii, E. subodontoidea, E. subquercina and E. tuberculata. Subsequent phylogenetic analysis (Wu et al. 2010) showed that Efibula sensu Zmitrovich et al. (2006) was polyphyletic and, according to Floudas and Hibbett (2015), only five species were accepted in the genus namely E. americana, E. clarki, E. gracilis, E. tropica and E. tuberculata.

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