Meruliopsis

Meruliopsis is a genus of poroid crust fungi. The genus was circumscribed by Russian mycologist Appollinaris Semenovich Bondartsev in 1959.

Meruliopsis
Meruliopsis taxicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Irpicaceae
Genus:	Meruliopsis Bondartsev (1959)
Type species
Meruliopsis taxicola (Pers.) Bondartsev (1959)

Although traditionally classified in the family Phanerochaetaceae,^[1] recent molecular phylogenetic analysis supports the placement of Meruliopsis in the Irpicaceae.^[2][3][4]

Species

• Meruliopsis bella (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Ginns (1976)
• Meruliopsis cystidiata (Ryvarden) P.E.Jung & Y.W.Lim (2018)^[5]
• Meruliopsis miniata (Wakef.) Ginns (1976)
• Meruliopsis taxicola (Pers.) Bondartsev (1959)

A cystidium-forming species formerly placed in Gloeoporus (G.  cystidiatus) was transferred to Meruliopsis in 2018 based on molecular phylogenetic analysis. The same study showed Gloeoporus guerreroanus to be the same species as M. cystidiata.^[5]