Oligoporus

Oligoporus
Oligoporus caesius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Basidiomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Polyporaceae
Genus:	Oligoporus Bref.
Type species
Oligoporus farinosus Bref.

Oligoporus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was described by German mycologist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1888.^[1] According to a 2008 estimate, Oligoporus contains 10 species.^[2]

References

1. ^ Brefeld O. (1888). "Basidiomyceten III. Autobasidiomyceten" (in German). Untersuchungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Mykologie 8: 114. 
2. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 480. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.