Phlebia incarnata

Species of fungus

Phlebia incarnata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Polyporales
Family:
Meruliaceae
Genus:
Phlebia
Species:
P. incarnata
Binomial name
Phlebia incarnata
(Schwein.) Nakasone & Burds. (1984)
Synonyms[1]
  • Merulius incarnatus Schwein. (1822)
  • Cantharellus incarnatus (Schwein.) Schwein. (1832)
  • Sesia incarnata (Schwein.) Kuntze (1891)
  • Merulius tremellosus f. incarnatus (Schwein.) Parmasto (1967)
  • Byssomerulius incarnatus (Schwein.) Gilb. (1974)
Species of fungus
Phlebia incarnata
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Mycological characteristics
Ridges on hymenium
Cap is offset
Hymenium attachment is not applicable
Lacks a stipe
Spore print is white
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is inedible

Phlebia incarnata is a species of polypore fungus in the family Meruliaceae. It is inedible.[2]

Taxonomy

The species was originally described as Merulius incarnatus by Lewis David de Schweinitz in 1822.[3] In its taxonomic history, it has been transferred to the genera Cantharellus (1832),[4] Sesia (1891),[5] and Byssomerulius (1974),[6] and renamed as a form of Merulius tremellosus. It was transferred to Phlebia in 1984 when Nakasone and Burdsall synonymized Merulius with Phlebia.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Phlebia incarnata (Schwein.) Nakasone & Burds. :245, 1984". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2013-10-01. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuides. p. 434. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
  3. ^ von Schweinitz LD. (1822). "Synopsis fungorum Carolinae superioris". Schriften der Berlinischen Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde (in German). 1: 20–131 (see p. 92).
  4. ^ von Schweinitz LD. (1832). "Synopsis fungorum in America boreali media degentium". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 4 (2): 141–316 (see p. 153). doi:10.2307/1004834. JSTOR 1004834.
  5. ^ Kuntze O. (1891). Revisio generum plantarum. Vol. 2. Leipzig, Germany: A. Felix. p. 870.
  6. ^ Gilbertson RL. (1974). Fungi that Decay Ponderosa Pine. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press. p. 45.
  7. ^ Nakasone KK, Burdsall Jr HH. (1984). "Merulius, a synonym of Phlebia". Mycotaxon. 21: 241–6.
Taxon identifiers
Phlebia incarnata
Merulius incarnatus


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