Microporus affinis (Blume & T.Nees) Kuntze is a fungus in the Polyporaceae family, order Polyporales, kingdom Fungi. Not known to be toxic.

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Microporus affinis (Blume & T.Nees) Kuntze

Microporus affinis (Blume & T.Nees) Kuntze

Microporus affinis is a widespread common polypore fungus in Polyporaceae found across tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres.

Family
Genus
Microporus
Order
Polyporales
Class
Agaricomycetes

About Microporus affinis (Blume & T.Nees) Kuntze

Microporus affinis (Blume & T.Nees) Kuntze is a fungus species belonging to the family Polyporaceae. It was first formally described in 1826 by German botanists Carl Ludwig Blume and Theodor Nees, who classified it as a species of the genus Polyporus. Otto Kuntze later reclassified it to the genus Microporus in 1898. This species is a widespread polypore that is common in tropical and subtropical areas of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

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Taxonomy

Fungi โ€บ Basidiomycota โ€บ Agaricomycetes โ€บ Polyporales โ€บ Polyporaceae โ€บ Microporus

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