Rigidoporus laetus

Rigidoporus laetus is a species of polypore fungus in the family Meripilaceae. It was originally described in 1883 as Polyporus laetus by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke.^[3] Peter Buchanan and Leif Ryvarden transferred it to Rigidoporus in 1988.^[4] Found in south Australia, the fungus is a plant pathogen that causes white rot in Eucalyptus.^[5]

Rigidoporus laetus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Meripilaceae
Genus:	Rigidoporus
Species:	R. laetus
Binomial name
Rigidoporus laetus (Cooke) P.K.Buchanan & Ryvarden (1988)
Synonyms[1]
Polyporus laetus Cooke (1883) Fomes laetus (Cooke) Lloyd (1915) Coltricia laeta (Cooke) G.Cunn. (1948)[2]

References

1. "GSD Species Synonymy: Rigidoporus laetus (Cooke) P.K. Buchanan & Ryvarden". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
2. Cunningham, G.H. (1948). "New Zealand Polyporaceae. 6. The genus Coltricia". Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Industrial Research. 77: 1–10.
3. Cooke, M.C. (1883). "Australian fungi". Grevillea. 12 (61): 8–21.
4. Buchanan, P.L.; Ryvarden, L. (1988). "Type studies in the Polyporaceae – 18. Species described by G.H. Cunningham". Mycotaxon. 31 (1): 1–38 (see p. 8).
5. Keane, P.J.; Kile, G.A.; Podger, F.D.; Brown, B.N. (2000). Diseases and Pathogens of Eucalypts. Csiro Publishing. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-643-09884-8.