Hexagonia (fungus)

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| image = Hexagonia hydnoides 9789.jpg

| image_caption = Hexagonia hydnoides

| taxon = Hexagonia (fungus)

| authority = Fr. (1838)

| type_species = Favolus hirtus

| type_species_authority = (P.Beauv.) Fr. (1838)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

| synonyms = *Apoxona Donk (1969)

Pherima Raf. (1819)
Phorima Raf. (1830)
Pogonomyces Murrill (1904)
Polyporus trib. Scenidium Klotzsch (1832)
Scenidium (Klotzsch) Kuntze (1898)

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Hexagonia is a genus of poroid fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in tropical regions. The generic name is derived from the Latin word hexagonus, meaning "with six angles".

Species

{{As of|2016|October}}, Index Fungorum accepts 41 species in Hexagonia:

Hexagonia amplexens Pat. (1902)
Hexagonia angulata Lloyd (1920)
Hexagonia annamitica Pat. (1927)
Hexagonia applanata (Bres.) Lloyd (1920)
Hexagonia assaortina Sacc. & Bacc. (1917)
Hexagonia bartlettii Massee (1908)
Hexagonia bicolor McAlpine (1904)
Hexagonia bivalvis (Pers.) Bres. (1913)
Hexagonia burchellii Lloyd (1910)
Hexagonia caliginosa Lloyd (1922)
Hexagonia caperata (Pat.) Murrill (1904)
Hexagonia casuarinae Pat. (1901)
Hexagonia cucullata (Mont.) Murrill (1904) – Cameroon
Hexagonia culmicola Niemelä & Kotir. (2015)
Hexagonia cuprea Bres. (1911)
Hexagonia dermatiphora Lloyd (1911)
Hexagonia fioriana Sacc. (1910)
Hexagonia fuscoglabra Lloyd (1922)
Hexagonia heteropora (Mont.) Imazeki (1943)
Hexagonia hydnoides (Sw.) M. Fidalgo (1968)
Hexagonia leprosa Fr. (1851) – Pernambuco
Hexagonia mirabilis Lloyd (1910)
Hexagonia olivacea Lloyd (1914)
Hexagonia phaeopora Pat. (1907)
Hexagonia pobeguinii Har. (1892) – Africa
Hexagonia purpurascens (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Murrill (1904)
Hexagonia retropicta (Bres.) Lloyd (1922)
Hexagonia reyesii Pat. (1914)
Hexagonia rhodopora Pat. (1912)
Hexagonia seuratii Pat. (1906)
Hexagonia similis Berk. (1846) – New South Wales
Hexagonia tenuiformis Murrill (1912)
Hexagonia tenuis (Hook.) Fr. (1838) – Africa; Asia; South America
Hexagonia umbrinella Fr. (1845)
Hexagonia umbrosa Lloyd (1920)
Hexagonia velutina Pat. & Har. (1893)
Hexagonia vesparia (Berk.) Ryvarden (1972) – Australia
Hexagonia warburgiana (Henn.) Teixeira (1992)
Hexagonia wightii (Klotzsch) Fr. (1838)
Hexagonia zambeziana Torrend (1914)

References

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{{cite web |author=Kirk, P.M. |title=Species Fungorum (version 28th September 2016). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/251c31caa72d12e5f3fd8a0ae3f1c08c |accessdate=2015-10-30}}

{{cite journal |author=Donk, M.A. |year=1960 |title=The generic names proposed for Polyporaceae |journal=Persoonia |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=173–302 |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/61056/0001/002/0173.htm}}

{{cite journal |author1=Härkönen, M. |author2=Niemelä, T. |author3=Mbindo, K. |author4=Kotiranta, H. |author5=Piearce, G. |year=2015 |title=Zambian mushrooms and mycology |journal=Norrlinia |volume=29 |page=200}}

{{cite book |author1=Kirk, P.M. |author2=Cannon, P.F. |author3=Minter, D.W. |author4=Stalpers, J.A. |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |edition=10th |publisher=CAB International |location=Wallingford, UK |year=2008|page=316|isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}

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Category:Polyporaceae

Category:Polyporales genera

Category:Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries

Category:Taxa described in 1838