{{Short description|Family of fungi}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Merulius tremellosus - Lindsey.jpg | image_caption = ''Phlebia tremellosa'', member of the Meruliaceae | taxon = Meruliaceae | authority = Rea (1922) | type_genus = ''Merulius'' | type_genus_authority = Fr. (1821) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="Justo et al. 2017"/> | synonyms = *Climacodontaceae <small>Jülich (1981)</small> *Phlebiaceae <small>Jülich (1981)</small> }}
The '''Meruliaceae''' are a family of fungi in the order Polyporales. According to a 2008 estimate, the family contains 47 genera and 420 species.<ref name="Kirk 2008"/> {{As of|2018|April}}, Index Fungorum accepts 645 species in the family.<ref name="CoL-Fungorum"/>
==Taxonomy== The family was formally circumscribed by English mycologist Carleton Rea in 1922, with ''Merulius'' as the type genus. He also included the genera ''Phlebia'', ''Coniophora'' (now placed in the Coniophoraceae), and ''Coniophorella'' (now considered a synonym of ''Coniophora''). His description of the Meruliaceae was as follows: "Hymenium spread over veins, anastomosing pores, or quite smooth; ''edge of veins or pores fertile.''"<ref name="Rea 1922"/> Several genera formerly classified in the Meruliaceae were moved to the family Steccherinaceae based on molecular evidence.<ref name="Miettinen 2012"/><ref name="Miettinen 2016"/>
==Description== Meruliaceae species are crust-like or polyporoid, and often have a waxy appearance when dry. Their hyphal systems are monomitic (containing only tightly arranged generative hyphae), and these hyphae have clamp connections. The spores are smooth, thin-walled, and hyaline (translucent). Cystidia are often present in the hymenium. Although rare, some species have a dimitic hyphal system (with both generative and skeletal hyphae). Meruliaceae fungi cause white rot.<ref name="Justo et al. 2017"/>
==Genera== {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} *''Abortiporus'' <small>Murrill (1904)</small> – 3 species *''Amaurohydnum'' <small>Jülich (1978)</small> – 1 species *''Amauromyces'' <small>Jülich (1978)</small> – 1 species *''Aquascypha'' <small>D.A.Reid (1965)</small> – 1 species *''Aurantiopileus'' <small>Ginns, D.L.Lindner & T.J.Baroni (2010)</small><ref name="Ginns 2010"/> *''Aurantiporus'' <small>Murrill (1905)</small> – 5 species *''Bjerkandera'' <small>P.Karst. (1879)</small> – 7 species *''Bulbillomyces'' <small>Jülich (1974)</small> – 1 species *''Cerocorticium'' <small>Henn. (1900)</small> – 7 species *''Chrysoderma'' <small>Boidin & Gilles (1991)</small> – 1 species *''Climacodon'' <small>P.Karst. (1881)</small> – 7 species *''Columnodontia'' <small>Jülich (1979)</small> – 1 species *''Conohypha'' <small>Jülich (1975)</small> – 2 species *''Coralloderma'' <small>D.A.Reid (1965)</small> – 3 species *''Crustoderma'' <small>Parmasto (1968)</small> – 18 species *''Crustodontia'' <small>Hjortstam & Ryvarden (2005)</small> – 1 species *''Cyanodontia'' <small>Hjortstam (1987)</small> – 1 species *''Cymatoderma'' <small>Jungh. (1840)</small> – 1 species *''Diacanthodes'' <small>Singer (1945)</small> – 3 species *''Elaphroporia'' <small>Z.Q.Wu & C.L.Zhao (2018)</small><ref name="Wu et al. 2018"/> – 1 species *''Gyrophanopsis'' <small>Jülich (1979)</small> – 2 species *''Hydnophanerochaete'' <small>Sheng H. Wu & Che C. Chen (2018)<ref name="Chen 2018"/></small>– 1 species *''Hydnophlebia'' <small>Parmasto (1967)</small>– 2 species *''Hyphoderma'' <small>Wallr. (1833)</small> – 104 species *''Hyphodontiastra'' <small>Hjortstam (1999)</small> – 1 species *''Hypochnicium'' <small>J.Erikss. (1958)</small> – 35 species *''Lilaceophlebia'' <small>(Parmasto) Spirin & Zmitr. (2004)</small> – 3 species *''Luteoporia'' <small>F.Wu, Jia J.Chen & S.H.He (2016)</small><ref name="Wu 2016"/> – 1 species *''Merulius'' <small>Fr. (1821)</small> – 2 species *''Mycoacia'' <small>Donk (1931)</small> – 17 species *''Mycoaciella'' <small>J.Erikss. & Ryvarden (1978)</small> – 5 species *''Mycoleptodonoides'' <small>Nikol. (1952)</small> – 6 species *''Niemelaea'' <small>Zmitr., Ezhov & Khimich (2015)</small><ref name="Zmitrovich 2015"/> – 3 species *''Odoria'' <small>V.Papp & Dima (2018)</small><ref name="Papp 2018"/> – 1 species *''Phlebia'' <small>Fr. (1821)</small> – 89 species *''Phlebiporia'' <small>Jia J.Chen, B.K.Cui & Y.C.Dai (2014)</small><ref name="Chen 2014"/> – 1 species *''Pirex'' <small>Hjortstam & Ryvarden (1985)</small> – 1 species *''Podoscypha'' <small>Pat. (1900)</small> – 39 species *''Radulodon'' <small>Ryvarden (1972)</small> – 11 species *''Sarcodontia'' <small>Schulzer (1866)</small> – 6 species *''Scopuloides'' <small>(Massee) Höhn. & Litsch. (1908)</small> – 5 species *''Stegiacantha'' <small>Maas Geest. (1966)</small> – 1 species *''Uncobasidium'' <small>Hjortstam & Ryvarden (1978)</small> – 2 species {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Chen 2014">{{cite journal |author1=Chen, Jia-Jia |author2=Cui, Bao-Kai |year=2014 |title=''Phlebiporia bubalina'' gen. et. sp. nov. (Meruliaceae, Polyporales) from southwest China with a preliminary phylogeny based on rDNA sequences |journal=Mycological Progress |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=563–573 |doi=10.1007/s11557-013-0940-4|bibcode=2014MycPr..13..563C |s2cid=255308107 }}</ref>
<ref name="Chen 2018">{{cite journal |vauthors=Chen CC, Wu SH, Chen CY |title=Hydnophanerochaete and Odontoefibula, two new genera of phanerochaetoid fungi (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from East Asia |journal=MycoKeys |year=2018 |issue=39 |pages=75–96 |doi=10.3897/mycokeys.39.28010 |pmid=30271259 |doi-access=free |pmc=6160836 }}</ref>
<ref name="CoL-Fungorum">{{cite web |editor=Kirk, P.M. |title=Species Fungorum (version 28th March 2018). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/48bbf70a6d07554c0a8113bfa2a04e97 |access-date=2018-04-09 |archive-date=22 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822180407/http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/48bbf70a6d07554c0a8113bfa2a04e97 }}</ref>
<ref name="Ginns 2010">{{cite journal |author1=Ginns, James |author2=Lindner, Daniel L. |author3=Baroni,Timothy J. |author4=Ryvarden, Leif |year=2010 |title=''Aurantiopileus mayanensis'' a new genus and species of polypore (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from Belize with connections to existing Asian species |journal=North American Fungi |volume=5 |pages=1–10 |doi=10.2509/naf2010.005.004|doi-broken-date=12 July 2025 |doi-access=free }} {{open access}}</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 |bibcode=2017FunB..121..798J }}</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=CABI |location=Wallingford, UK |year=2008 |page=419 |isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}</ref>
<ref name="Miettinen 2012">{{cite journal |author=Miettinen, Otto |author2=Larsson, Ellen |author3=Sjökvist, Elisabet |author4=Larsson, Karl-Henrik |year=2012 |title=Comprehensive taxon sampling reveals unaccounted diversity and morphological plasticity in a group of dimitic polypores (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) |journal=Cladistics |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=251–270 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256859903 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00380.x|pmid=34872189 |s2cid=84643554 }}</ref>
<ref name="Miettinen 2016">{{cite journal |author1=Miettinen, Otto |author2=Ryvarden, Leif |year=2016 |title=Polypore genera ''Antella'', ''Austeria'', ''Butyrea'', ''Citripora'', ''Metuloidea'' and ''Trulla'' (Steccherinaceae, Polyporales) |journal=Annales Botanici Fennici |volume=53 |issue=3–4 |pages=157–172 |doi=10.5735/085.053.0403|bibcode=2016AnnBF..53..157M |s2cid=84739655 }}</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|bibcode=2018MycPr..17..319P |s2cid=255312849 }}</ref>
<ref name="Rea 1922">{{cite book |title=British Basidiomycetae: A Handbook to the Larger British Fungi |author=Rea, Carleton |author-link=Carleton Rea |year=1922 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |page=620 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17128455}}</ref>
<ref name="Wu 2016">{{cite journal |author1=Wu, Fang |author2=Yuan, Yuan |author3=Chen, Jia-Jia |author4=He, Shuang-Hui |year=2016 |title=''Luteoporia albomarginata'' gen. et sp. nov. (Meruliaceae, Basidiomycota) from tropical China |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=263 |issue=1 |pages=31–41 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.263.1.3 |bibcode=2016Phytx.263...31W }}</ref>
<ref name="Wu et al. 2018">{{cite journal |author1=Wu, Zi-Qiang |author2=Xu, Tai-Min |author3=Shen, Shan |author4=Liu, Xiang-Fu |author5=Luo, Kai-Yue |author6=Zhao, Chang-Lin |year=2018 |title=''Elaphroporia ailaoshanensis'' gen. et sp. nov. in Polyporales (Basidiomycota) |journal=MycoKeys |issue=29 |pages=81–95 |pmid=29559827 |pmc=5804141 |doi=10.3897/mycokeys.29.22086 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
<ref name="Zmitrovich 2015">{{cite journal |author1=Zmitrovich, Ivan V. |author2=Ezhov, Oleg N. |author3=Khimich, Yulia R. |year=2017 |title=''Niemelaea'', a new genus of Meruliaceae (Basidiomycota) |journal=Agriculture and Forestry |volume=61 |issue=4 |pages=23–31 |doi=10.17707/AgricultForest.61.4.02|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Category:Meruliaceae Meruliaceae Category:Taxa described in 1922