Lopharia
Lopharia is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Károly Kalchbrenner and Peter MacOwan in 1881.
Description
Fruit bodies of Lopharia fungi are crust like, to effused-reflexed. The sterile portion of the crust surface is tomentose, while the spore-bearing surface 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, and have oily contents.
Species
A 2008 estimate placed 13 species in Lopharia., Index Fungorum accepts 15 species:- Lopharia albida Rick
- Lopharia americana Rick
- Lopharia amethystea A.L.Welden
- Lopharia bambusae Rick
- Lopharia cinerascens G.Cunn.
- Lopharia cystidiosa Boidin
- Lopharia javanica Henn. & E.Nyman
- Lopharia lilacina A.L.Welden
- Lopharia ochracea G.Cunn.
- Lopharia papyracea D.A.Reid
- Lopharia papyrina Boidin
- Lopharia pilosiuscula A.L.Welden
- Lopharia pseudocinerascens Boidin & Gilles
- Lopharia rimosissima Rick
- Lopharia rugulosa Hjortstam