Fulvifomes Murrill, Northern Polypores (5): 49 (1914).
MycoBank number: MB 17618; Index Fungorum: IF 17618
Fulvifomes (typified as Fulvifomes robiniae Murrill) was described by Murrill (1914) to include perennial, sessile, ungulate, woody xanthochoroid fungus with dimitic hyphal system, colored basidiospores and lacks setae. Earlier Fulvifomes was treated as a synonym of Phellinus Quél. (Ryvarden and Johansen 1980; Dai 1999) later, many validated the generic rank of Fulvifomes, by studying the macro-microscopical description, nuclear behaviour and molecular data (Fiasson and Niemelä 1984; Wagner and Fischer 2002). Fulvifomes was revaluated and extensive ranges of characteristics were added to the classical description which includes annual to perennial, resupinate to pileate, applanate to ungulate, smooth to rimose basidiomata, homogenous to duplex context and poroid hymenial layer with mono-dimitic to dimitic hyphal system, presence or absence of setae, cystidioles, smooth, thick-walled, colored, globose to ellipsoid, cyanophilic to acyanophilic and inamyloid basidiospores (Murrill 1914; Wagner and Fischer 2002; Dai 2010; Salvador-Montoya et al. 2018; Tchoumi et al. 2020). Salvador-Montoya et al. (2018) and Zheng et al. (2021) proposed keys to American and Chinese Fulvifomes spp., respectively, since few samplings were done in other parts of the world. Approximately 331 sequences belonging to 50 taxa were submitted in NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) and 65 associated taxa are available in MycoBank (http://www.mycobank.org) (as of 1 January 2022). Wijayawardene et al. (2022) accepted 33 species in this genus.
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