{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Abortiporus biennis 197275.jpg | image_caption = ''Abortiporus biennis'' | taxon = Abortiporus | authority = Murrill (1904) | type_species = ''Abortiporus biennis'' | type_species_authority = (Schwein.) Murrill (1944) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''A. biennis''<br> ''A. chocoensis''<br> ''A. roseus'' | synonyms_ref = <ref name="urlMycoBank: Abortiporus"/> | synonyms = *''Irpicium'' <small>Bref. (1912)</small><ref name="Brefeld 1912"/> *''Heteroporus'' <small>Lázaro Ibiza (1917)</small><ref name="Ibiza 1917"/> }}
'''''Abortiporus''''' is a genus of fungi in the family Meruliaceae. The widely distributed genus contains three species.<ref name="Kirk 2008"/> Species in the genus grow on the wood of hardwoods and conifers, either alone or around the stumps and living trees. It causes a white rot in dead wood and a white trunk rot in living wood. The genus was circumscribed in 1904 by William Alphonso Murrill.<ref name="Murrill 1904"/> The generic name is derived from the Latin ''abortus'' (arrested development of any organ) and the Ancient Greek {{lang|grc|πόρος}} (pore).<ref name="Donk 1960"/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Brefeld 1912">{{cite journal |author=Brefeld, O. |title=Die Brandpilze V |journal=Untersuchungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Mykologie |year=1912 |volume=15 |page=143 |language=German}}</ref>
<ref name="Donk 1960">{{cite journal |author=Donk, M.A. |year=1960 |title=The generic names proposed for Polyporaceae |journal=Persoonia |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=173–302 |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/61056/0001/002/0173.htm}}</ref>
<ref name="Ibiza 1917">{{cite book |author=Lázaro Ibiza, B. |title=Los poliporáceos de la flora española. Estudio crítico y descriptivo de los hongos de esta familia |year=1917 |location=Madrid |publisher=Imprenta Renacimiento |page=211 |language=Spanish}}</ref>
<ref name="Kirk 2008">{{cite book |author1=Kirk, P.M. |author2=Cannon, P.F. |author3=Minter, D.W. |author4=Stalpers, J.A. |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |edition=10th |publisher=CAB International |location=Wallingford, UK |year=2008 |page=1 |isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}</ref>
<ref name="Murrill 1904">{{cite journal |author=Murrill, W.A. |title=The Polyporaceae of North America: VIII. ''Hapalopilus'', ''Pycnoporus'' and new monotypic genera |journal=Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club |year=1904 |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=415–28 |doi=10.2307/2478892|jstor=2478892 }}</ref>
<ref name="urlMycoBank: Abortiporus">{{cite web |title=''Abortiporus'' Murrill 1904 |url=http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=17001 |publisher=MycoBank. International Mycological Association |accessdate=2012-03-03}}</ref>
}} ==External links== *{{cite web |title=''Abortiporus'' Murrill |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/NZOR-4-60064 |access-date=2018-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327212145/https://bie.ala.org.au/species/NZOR-4-60064 |archive-date=2018-03-27 |url-status=dead }} {{Taxonbar|from=Q2345701}}
Category:Meruliaceae Category:Polyporales genera Category:Taxa named by William Alphonso Murrill Category:Taxa described in 1904
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