Fomitiporia is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of fungi in the family Hymenochaetaceae

Hymenochaetaceae

The Hymenochaetaceae are a family of fungi in the order Hymenochaetales. The family contains several species that are implicated in many diseases of broad-leaved and coniferous trees, causing heart rot, canker and root diseases, and also esca disease of grapevines...

. According to a 2008 estimate, the widely distributed genus contains 11 species, though three new species were identified in 2010 in sub-Saharan Africa using multigene molecular phylogenetic analysis. In 2011 it was announced that a specimen of the species F. ellipsoidea

Fomitiporia ellipsoidea

Fomitiporia ellipsoidea is a species of polypore fungus in the family Hymenochaetaceae, a specimen of which produced the largest fruit body ever recorded. Found in China, the fruit bodies produced by the species are brown, woody basidiocarps that grow on dead wood, where the fungus feeds as a...

was discovered with a fruit body that is largest known of any fungus.

Species

• Fomitiporia aethiopica
• Fomitiporia apiahyna
• Fomitiporia australiensis
• Fomitiporia bannaensis
• Fomitiporia dryophila
• Fomitiporia ellipsoidea
  Fomitiporia ellipsoidea
  Fomitiporia ellipsoidea is a species of polypore fungus in the family Hymenochaetaceae, a specimen of which produced the largest fruit body ever recorded. Found in China, the fruit bodies produced by the species are brown, woody basidiocarps that grow on dead wood, where the fungus feeds as a...
  
  
• Fomitiporia erecta
• Fomitiporia gabonensis
• Fomitiporia ivindoensis
• Fomitiporia langloisii
• Fomitiporia mediterranea
• Fomitiporia polymorpha
• Fomitiporia pseudopunctata
• Fomitiporia punctata
• Fomitiporia tabaquilio