Lopharia

Lopharia
Fruitbody of the resupinate fungus Lopharia spadicea
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Polyporaceae
Genus:	LophariaKalchbr. & MacOwan (1881)
Lopharia lirellosaKalchbr. & MacOwan (1881)

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Lopharia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Károly Kalchbrenner and Peter MacOwan in 1881.

Fruit bodies of Lopharia fungi are crust like, to effused-reflexed (like a crust with the edges curled out to form caps). The sterile portion of the crust surface is tomentose, while the spore-bearing surface (the hymenium) is smooth or tuberculate. The colour ranges from greyish-white to cream to pale yellowish.

Lopharia has a dimitic hyphal system, meaning that it contains both generative and skeletal hyphae. The generative hyphae have clamp connections. Basidia are club shaped with four sterigmata, and have a clamp at the base. Spores are cylindrical to ellipsoid in shape with a smooth surface. They are hyaline (translucent), and have oily contents.

A 2008 estimate placed 13 species in Lopharia. As of May 2021, Index Fungorum accepts 15 species:

• Lopharia albida Rick (1938)
• Lopharia americana Rick (1928)
• Lopharia amethystea (Hjortstam & Ryvarden) A.L.Welden (2010)
• Lopharia bambusae Rick (1960)
• Lopharia cinerascens (Schwein.) G.Cunn. (1956)
• Lopharia cystidiosa (Rehill & B.K.Bakshi) Boidin (1969)
• Lopharia javanica Henn. & E.Nyman (1900)
• Lopharia lilacina (Berk. & Broome) A.L.Welden (2010)
• Lopharia ochracea G.Cunn. (1963)
• Lopharia papyracea (Bres.) D.A.Reid (1957)
• Lopharia papyrina (Mont.) Boidin (1959)
• Lopharia pilosiuscula (Hjortstam & Ryvarden) A.L.Welden (2010)
• Lopharia pseudocinerascens Boidin & Gilles (2003)
• Lopharia rimosissima Rick (1960)
• Lopharia rugulosa (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Hjortstam (1995)

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