Irpex lacteus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Irpicaceae
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

Irpex lacteus
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Hymenium attachment is not applicable
Lacks a stipe
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is inedible

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. 43 (4). American Society for Microbiology: 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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