A Synopsis of Poria and Similar Fungi from the Tropical Regions of the World
| Autor: | Josiah L. Lowe |
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| Rok vydání: | 1963 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Ecology Physiology Tropics World trade Family Polyporaceae Subtropics Cell Biology General Medicine Biology 030108 mycology & parasitology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences Temperate climate Genetics Taxonomy (biology) computer Class Basidiomycetes Molecular Biology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Ceylon computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | Mycologia. 55:453-486 |
| ISSN: | 1557-2536 0027-5514 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00275514.1963.12018039 |
| Popis: | Increasing awareness of the wide distribution of many wood-decay fungi, and expanding world trade in wood products, intensify the need for a uniform taxonomy of these fungi, particularly a clarification of the tropical species. Such information is basic to many deterioration and pathologic studies of these economically important organisms. Many pore fungi (family Polyporaceae, class Basidiomycetes) are destructive decay organisms. The pileate polypores are much better known because of the taxonomic efforts of many mycologists, especially the worldwide studies of Lloyd (1908-1925). The resupinate polypores of the North Temperate Zone are now rather well-known, those of the South Temperate Zone are far less satisfactorily understood. Cunningham (1947, 1948) has treated this group for New Zealand, and Cleland and Rodway (1928, 1929) have dealt with species occurring in Australia and Tasmania. No comprehensive study of the tropical poroid resupinates has been published, and such a treatment is urgently needed. An extensive study of the types of the species described by early workers was made by Bresadola, as attested by his notes on the type sheets, but his published observations are fragmentary, scattered, and available with difficulty to the student who only occasionally studies these plants. Lists of resupinate pore fungi, a few with descriptions of microscopic features, have been published for some areas. The more important papers for North America are those of Baxter (1932-1955), Lowe (1958), and Murrill (1907); for Brazil those of Rick (1960), Theiszen (1911), and Weir (1926); for India that of Butler and Bisby (1931); and for Ceylon those of Petch (1916-1924). Accurate determination of resupinate pore fungi of the tropics is almost impossible with the available literature. In this paper the characteristics, especially the microscopic ones now considered essential in the taxonomy of these plants, are brought together, with the hope that these will be of assistance to interested students, and will stimulate further work in this field. |
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