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Dark-footed tinypore
Atsushi Nakajima, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist

Mushrooms & bracket fungi

Dark-footed tinypore

Microporus affinis (Blume & T.Nees) Kuntze

Names

EnglishDark-footed tinypore
Dutch—
Spanish—
Chinese褐芝小孔菌
Sranan Tongopopolipo (general name for the group)
Scientific nameMicroporus affinis (Blume & T.Nees) Kuntze

About this species

Microporus affinis is a fungus species in the family Polyporaceae. It was first described in 1826 as a species of Polyporus by German botanists Carl Ludwig Blume and Theodor Nees. Otto Kuntze transferred it to Microporus in 1898. It is a widespread polypore that is common in tropical and subtropical regions of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

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Classification

KingdomFungi
PhylumBasidiomycota
ClassAgaricomycetes
OrderPolyporales
FamilyPolyporaceae
GenusMicroporus

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