Nigrofomes is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. It was circumscribed by mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1904 with N. melanoporus as the type species. This fungus, first described as Polyporus melanoporus from collections made in Cuba, is common in tropical America.[1] N. nigrivineus, found in Papua New Guinea, was added to the genus in 2013[2] and N. sinomelanoporus from China was added in 2018.[3]
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| N. melanoporus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Polyporaceae |
| Genus: | Nigrofomes Murrill (1904) |
| Type species | |
| Nigrofomes melanoporus (Mont.) Murrill (1904)
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The genus name combines the Latin word niger ("black") with the name Fomes.[4]
Description
editMurrill described the characteristics of the genus as follows: "Hymenophore large, perennial, epixylous, sessile; context woody, purple, tubes cylindrical, stratose, thick-walled, black; pores ovoid, smooth, hyaline." He noted that Nigrofomes was distinguished from similar genera by its purple context and black tubes.[1]
Chemistry
editDrimane-type sesquiterpenes called nigrofomins have been isolated from the fruit bodies of Nigrofomes melanoporus.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Murrill, W.A. (1904). "The Polyporaceae of North America: VIII. Hapalopilus, Pycnoporus and new monotypic genera". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 31 (8): 415–428. doi:10.2307/2478892. JSTOR 2478892.
- ^ Hattori, Tsutomu; Sotome, Kozue (2013). "Type studies of the polypores described by E.J.H. Corner from Asia and West Pacific Areas VIII. Species described in Trametes (2)". Mycoscience. 54 (4): 297–308. doi:10.1016/j.myc.2012.10.008.
- ^ Zhou LW, Wang XW, Vlasák J, Ren GJ (2018). "Resolution of phylogenetic position of Nigrofomitaceae within Hymenochaetales (Basidiomycota) and Nigrofomes sinomelanoporus sp. nov. (Nigrofomitaceae) from China". MycoKeys. 29 (29): 1–13. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.29.21250. PMC 5804300. PMID 29559823.
- ^ Donk, M.A. (1960). "The generic names proposed for Polyporaceae". Persoonia. 1 (2): 173–302.
- ^ Chan, Hsiu-Hui; Juang, Shin-Hun; Thang, Tran Dinh; Chen, Min-Yu; Kuo, Ping-Chung; Yan, Mei-Lin; Ngan, Nguyen Thi; Linh, Nguyen Ngoc; Wu, Tian-Shung (2012). "Drimane-type sesquiterpenes with a dioxabicyclooctane skeleton from the fruiting bodies of Nigrofomes melanoporus and their cytotoxicity". Planta Medica. 78 (7): 737–739. doi:10.1055/s-0031-1298367. PMID 22437245.
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