Irpex lacteus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Order:
Polyporales
Family:
Steccherinaceae
Genus:
Irpex
Species:
I. lacteus
Binomial name
Irpex lacteus
(Fr.) Fr. (1828)

Irpex lacteus is a common crust fungus distributed throughout temperate areas of the world. It is the type of the genus Irpex. Irpex lacteus is considered a polypore, but depending on growth conditions it can also produce a hydnoid hymenophore. Due to this variability and abundance of the species it has been described as a new species to science numerous times and subsequently has an extensive synonymy. The complete genome sequence of Irpex lacteus was reported in 2017.[1]

Irpex lacteus is a white-rot fungus that inhabits mainly angiosperm branches and trunks.[2] It is one of the most common wood-rotting fungi for instance in urban North America. It is inedible.[3] The fungus has been identified as a cause of pulmonary infections in immuno-compromised humans.[4]

Taxonomy

The fungus was first described in 1818 by Elias Magnus Fries, who called it Sistotrema lacteum.[5] Fries later made it the type species of the genus Irpex in 1828.[6]

Synonyms

  • Boletus cinerascens Schwein. (1822)
  • Boletus tulipiferae Schwein. (1822)
  • Coriolus lacteus (Fr.) Pat. (1900)
  • Coriolus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Pat. (1900)
  • Daedalea diabolica Speg. (1889)
  • Hirschioporus lacteus (Fr.) Teng (1963)
Irpex lacteus
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Hymenium attachment is not applicable
Lacks a stipe
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is inedible
  • Hydnum lacteum (Fr.) Fr. (1823)
  • Irpex bresadolae Schulzer (1885)
  • Irpex diabolicus (Speg.) Bres. (1919)
  • Irpex hirsutus Kalchbr. (1878)
  • Irpex lacteus f. sinuosus (Fr.) Nikol. (1953)
  • Irpex pallescens Fr. (1838)
  • Irpex sinuosus Fr. (1828)
  • Irpiciporus lacteus (Fr.) Murrill (1907)
  • Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill (1905)
  • Microporus chartaceus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Kuntze, (1898)
  • Microporus cinerascens (Schwein.) Kuntze (1898)
  • Polyporus chartaceus Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1849)
  • Polyporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Overh. [as 'tulipiferus'], (1915)
  • Polystictus bresadolae (Schulzer) Sacc. (1888)
  • Polystictus chartaceus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke, (1886)
  • Polystictus cinerascens (Schwein.) Cooke (1886)
  • Polystictus cinerescens (Schwein.) Cooke
  • Polystictus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Cooke (1886)
  • Poria cincinnati Berk. ex Cooke, (1886)
  • Poria tulipiferae (Schwein.) Cooke, (1888)
  • Sistotrema lacteum Fr. (1818)
  • Steccherinum lacteum (Fr.) Krieglst. (1999)
  • Trametes lactea (Fr.) Pilát (1940)
  • Xylodon bresadolae (Schulzer) Kuntze (1898)
  • Xylodon hirsutus (Kalchbr.) Kuntze (1898)
  • Xylodon lacteus (Fr.) Kuntze (1898)
  • Xylodon pallescens (Fr.) Kuntze (1898)
  • Xylodon sinuosus (Fr.) Kuntze (1898)

References

  1. ↑ Yao, Mengwei; Li, Wenman; Duan, Zihong; Zhang, Yinliang; Jia, Rong (2017). "Genome sequence of the white-rot fungus Irpex lacteus F17, a type strain of lignin degrader fungus". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12 (8): 400–3. doi:10.1186/s40793-017-0267-x. PMC 5596461. PMID 5596461.
  2. ↑ Gilbertson RL, Ryvarden L (1986) North American polypores 1, Abortiporus to Lindtneria. Oslo, Fungiflora.
  3. ↑ Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 324. ISBN 978-1-55407-651-2.
  4. ↑ Multiple (2005). "The Polypore Mushroom Irpex lacteus, a New Causative Agent of Fungal Infections". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. American Society for Microbiology. 43 (4): 2009–2011. doi:10.1128/JCM.43.4.2009-2011.2005. PMC 1081321. PMID 15815046.
  5. ↑ Fries, E.M. (1818). Observationes mycologicae (in Latin). Vol. 2. p. 266.
  6. ↑ Fries, E.M. (1828). Elenchus Fungorum (in Latin). Vol. 1. p. 145.


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