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Meripilaceae

{{Short description|Family of fungi}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}}

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| image = Fungus-IMG 0656.JPG

| image_caption = Meripilus giganteus

| taxon = Meripilaceae

| authority = Jülich (1982)

| type_genus = Meripilus

| type_genus_authority = P.Karst. (1882)

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms = *Rigidoporaceae Jülich (1981)

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The Meripilaceae are a family of fungi in the order Polyporales. The family was circumscribed by Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich in 1982 with Meripilus as the type genus. A 2008 estimate placed 7 genera and 57 species in Meripilaceae. {{As of|2018|April}}, Index Fungorum accepts 74 species in the family.

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{{cite web |editor=Kirk, P.M. |title=Species Fungorum (version 28th March 2018). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/0b875e7875a7e45bfaf57a3ac9c9d8f1 |accessdate=2018-04-09 |archive-date=30 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430024441/http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/0b875e7875a7e45bfaf57a3ac9c9d8f1 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite book |author=Jülich, Walter |title=Higher Taxa of Basidiomycetes |year=1982 |series=Bibliotheca Mycologica |publisher=J. Cramer |location=Vaduz |volume=85 |page=378 |isbn=978-3768213240}}

{{cite journal |author1=Justo, Alfredo |author2=Miettinen, Otto |author3=Floudas, Dimitrios |author4=Ortiz-Santana, Beatriz |author5=Sjökvist, Elisabet |author6=Lindner, Daniel |author7=Nakasone, Karen |author8=Niemelä, Tuomo |author9=Larsson, Karl-Henrik |author10=Ryvarden, Leif |author11=Hibbett, David S. |year=2017 |title=A revised family-level classification of the Polyporales (Basidiomycota) |journal=Fungal Biology |doi=10.1016/j.funbio.2017.05.010 |pmid=28800851 |volume=121 |issue=9 |pages=798–824|doi-access=free |bibcode=2017FunB..121..798J }}

{{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=418 |isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}

{{cite journal |author1=Kondratyuk, T.O. |author2=Kondratyuk, S.Y. |author3=Morgaienko, O.O. |author4=Khimich, W.V. |author5=Beregova, T.V. |author6=Ostapchenko, L. L. |year=2015 |title=Pseudonadsoniella brunnea (Meripilaceae, Agaricomycotina), a new brown yeast-like fungus producing melanin from the Antarctic; with notes on nomenclature and type confusion of Nadsoniella nigra |journal=Acta Botanica Hungarica |volume=58 |issue=3–4 |pages= 291–320|doi=10.1556/034.57.2015.3-4.5}}

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Meripilaceae

Category:Taxa named by Walter Jülich

Category:Taxa described in 1982

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