Name: Polyporomycotidae; Polyporomycotina.
Clades:
Basidiomycota.
English: Bracket fungi; Conks.
Members: 2000 species.
Use: traditional medicine, traditional Chinese medicine; serious pathogens of plantation.
MycologyFungi; saprotrophic; woody; most are bracket fungi.
Fruiting bodies: pores or tubes on the underside; woody; called conks; inhabit tree trunks or branches; consuming the wood, most important agents of wood decay.
TaxonomyIn the classification by Hibbett and others Polyporomycetidae is not a monophyletic clade. The main order
Polyporales is monophyletic, also when fused with Telephorales.
In the
Plant theory Polyporomycetidae contains the order as shown below.
OrdersCorticiales: 3 families; 30+ genera.
Gloeophyllales: 1 families; 7 genera.
Hymenochaetales: 3 families; 50+ genera.
Polyporales: 9 families; ~200 genera.
Thelephorales: 2 families; 18 genera.
Trechisporales: 1 families; 15 genera.
LiteratureHibbett, David & others; A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the
Fungi; Mycological research, 111, p 509–547; 2007.