- Polyporales
Taxobox
name =Polyporales
image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Ganoderma applanatum "
regnum =Fungi
phylum =Basidiomycota
classis =Agaricomycetes
ordo = Polyporales
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision =Albatrellaceae
Atheliaceae
Boreostereaceae
Corticiaceae
Cyphellaceae
Cystostereaceae
Epitheliaceae
Fomitopsidaceae
Ganodermataceae
Gloeophyllaceae
Grammotheleaceae
Hapalopilaceae
Hyphodermataceae
Meripilaceae
Meruliaceae
Phanerochaetaceae
Podoscyphaceae
Polyporaceae
Sistotremataceae
Sparassidaceae
Steccherinaceae
Tubulicrinaceae
Xenasmataceae Polyporales (earlier known as Aphyllophorales) are important decomposers of wood. They are basidiomycetes that lack soft
gill s (lamellae), but are alsohymenomycetes as are boletes and agarics. This assemblage offungi ispolyphyletic . Polyporales have a smoothhymenophore , or have pores such as the boletes, or teeth, or irregular gills. Major groups are thepolypore s and variouscoral fungi .
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