Piptoporus

Piptoporus is a genus of bracket fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceae.

Piptoporus
Piptoporus betulinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Fomitopsidaceae
Genus:	Piptoporus P.Karst (1881)
Type species
Piptoporus betulinus (Bull.) P.Karst (1787)
Synonyms[1]
Ungularia Lázaro Ibiza (1917) Placodes sect. Placoderma Ricken (1918) Placoderma (Ricken) Ulbr. (1928)

Species

Various species formerly classified as Piptoporus (for example, P. choseniae, P. fraxineus, P. ulmi, P. hirtus, and P. elatinus) have been renamed or moved into other genera.^[2]

• Piptoporus australiensis (Wakef.) G. Cunn.
• Piptoporus betulinus (Bull.) P. Karst. (1881)
• Piptoporus quercinus (Schrad.) P. Karst. (1881) (moved to Buglossoporus)^[3]
• Piptoporus soloniensis (Dubois) Pilát (1937)
• Piptoporus suberosus (L.) Murrill (1903)