Piptoporus portentosus (Berk.) G. Cunn. 1965

Details

Name scientific

Piptoporus portentosus (Berk.) G. Cunn. 1965

Preferred name

Laetiporus portentosus (Berk.) Rajchenb. 1995

Taxonomy reference

Buchanan, P.K.; Ryvarden, L. 2000: An annotated checklist of polypore and polypore-like fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 38(2): 265-323.

Nomenclature

Authors

(Berk.) G. Cunn.

Original authors

Berk.

Combination authors

G. Cunn.

Publication place

Cunningham, G.H. 1965: Polyporaceae of New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin. 164.

Year published

1965

Publication page

106

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Polyporus portentosus Berk. 1844

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Piptoporus portentosus

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Polyporales

Family

Fomitopsidaceae

Genus

Piptoporus

Species

portentosus

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Eucalyptus

Pennycook, S.R. (1989)

Descriptions

Dingley, J.M. 1969: Records of plant diseases in New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin. 192.

Piptoporus portentosus (Berk.) G. Cunn. 1965

Notes

Cunningham (1965) stated that collections of this species were earlier identified as Polyporus eucalyptorum Fr., but, as the type of this species is missing, the species cannot be identified. In New Zealand in indigenous forests it occurs only on Nothofagus spp., where it causes a cubical heart rot. It has also been collected on a pear tree (Pyrus communis) in Hawke's Bay.