{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Tyromyces fissilis (Irene).jpg | image_caption = ''Aurantiporus fissilis'' | taxon = Aurantiporus | authority = Murrill (1905) | type_species = ''Aurantiporus pilotae'' | type_species_authority = (Schwein.) Murrill (1905) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{plainlist| *''A. albidus'' *''A. alborubescens'' *''A. fissilis'' *''A. pilotae'' *''A. transformatus'' }} }} '''''Aurantiporus''''' is a genus of poroid fungi in the family Meruliaceae.<ref name="Justo et al. 2017"/> Circumscribed by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1905,<ref name="Murrill 1905"/> the genus contains five species found mostly in northern temperate regions.<ref name="Kirk 2008"/> Molecular analysis of several ''Aurantiporus'' species suggests that the genus is not monophyletic, but some other related polypore species need to be sequenced and studied before appropriate taxonomic changes can be made.<ref name="Dvořák 2014"/> In 2018, Viktor Papp and Bálint Dima proposed a new genus ''Odoria'' to contain ''Aurantiporus alborubescens'' based on multigene phylogenetic analyses.<ref name="Papp 2018"/> The generic name is derived from the Latin ''aurantius'' ("orange") and the Ancient Greek {{lang|grc|πόρος}} (pore).<ref name="Donk 1960"/>
==Species== *''Aurantiporus albidus'' <small>Rajchenb. & Cwielong (1995)</small><ref name="Rachenberg 1995"/> – Argentina *''Aurantiporus alborubescens'' <small>(Bourdot & Galzin) H.Jahn (1973)</small> – Europe *''Aurantiporus fissilis'' <small>(Berk. & M.A.Curtis) H.Jahn ex Ryvarden (1978)<ref name="Ryvarden 1978"/></small> – Europe *''Aurantiporus pilotae'' <small>(Schwein.) Murrill (1905)</small> *''Aurantiporus transformatus'' <small>(Núñez & Ryvarden) Spirin & Zmitr. (2006)</small><ref name="Spirin 2006"/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<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="Dvořák 2014">{{cite journal |author1=Dvořák, Daniel |author2=Běťák, Jan |author3=Tomšovský, Michal |year=2014 |title=''Aurantiporus alborubescens'' (Basidiomycota, Polyporales) – first record in the Carpathian and notes on its systematic position |journal=Czech Mycology |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=71–84 |url=http://www.czechmycology.org/_cmo/CM66105.pdf |doi=10.33585/cmy.66105}}</ref>
<ref name="Justo et al. 2017">{{cite journal |author1=Justo, Alfredo |author2=Miettinen, Otto |author3=Floudas, Dimitrios |author4=Ortiz-Santana, Beatriz |author5=Sjökvist, Elisabet |author6=Lindner, Daniel |author7=Nakasone, Karen |author8=Niemelä, Tuomo |author9=Larsson, Karl-Henrik |author10=Ryvarden, Leif |author11=Hibbett, David S. |year=2017 |title=A revised family-level classification of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota) |journal=Fungal Biology |volume=121 |issue=9 |pages=798–824 |doi=10.1016/j.funbio.2017.05.010 |pmid=28800851|doi-access=free }}</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=68 |isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}</ref>
<ref name="Murrill 1905">{{cite journal |author=Murrill, William Alphonso |title=The Polyporaceae of North America: XII. A synopsis of the white and bright-colored pileate species |journal=Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club |year=1905 |volume=32 |issue=9 |pages=469–494 |doi=10.2307/2478463|jstor=2478463 }}</ref>
<ref name="Papp 2018">{{cite journal |author1=Papp, Viktor |author2=Dima, Bálint |year=2018 |title=New systematic position of ''Aurantiporus alborubescens'' (Meruliaceae, Basidiomycota), a threatened old-growth forest polypore |journal=Mycological Progress |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=319–332 |doi=10.1007/s11557-017-1356-3|s2cid=46770995 }}</ref>
<ref name="Rachenberg 1995">{{cite journal |author=Rajchenberg, Mario |year=1995 |title=New polypores from the ''Nothofagus'' forests of Argentina |journal=Mycotaxon |volume=54 |pages=427–453 }}</ref>
<ref name="Ryvarden 1978">{{cite journal |author=Ryvarden, Leif |year=1978 |title=The Polyporaceae of North Europe |publisher=Fungiflora |location=Oslo |volume=2 |pages=215–507}}</ref>
<ref name="Spirin 2006">{{cite journal |author1=Zmitrovich, I.V. |author2=Malysheva, V.F. |author3=Spirin, W.A. |year=2006 |title=A new morphological arrangement of the Polyporales. I. Phanerochaetineae |journal=Mycena |volume=6 |pages=4–56}}</ref>
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Category:Taxa described in 1905 Category:Meruliaceae Category:Polyporales genera Category:Taxa named by William Alphonso Murrill
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