Tropicoporus linteus

Tropicoporus linteus is a tropical American mushroom. Its former name Phellinus linteus is applied wider, including to an East Asian mushroom.

Taxonomy
Polyporus linteus was named by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis and first reported with specimen from Nicaragua in 1860. Phellinus linteus was a rename by Shu Chün Teng in 1963. It was renamed Tropicoporus linteus by Li-Wei Zhou and Yu-Cheng Dai in 2015.

The following mushrooms are applied with the name Phellinus linteus:

Americas

 * Phellinus linteus per se, the tropical American species, now Tropicoporus linteus
 * In subtropical South America, Phellinus linteus on Cordia americana is actually Tropicoporus drechsleri; specimens collected on other plant hosts require further studies.

Asia

 * Phellinus linteus in East Asia

Africa

 * Xanthochrous rudis, an African species formerly regarded as a synonym of Phellinus linteus, regained taxon independency and was renamed Tropicoporus rudis.

Description
A description was made by Tian et al. (2012) for the epitype.

This mushroom's tube trama is dimitic, contains generative and skeletal hyphae.

Ecology and habitat
Tropicoporus mushrooms cause a white rot.

This mushroom is known distributed in Nicaragua, United States (Florida) and Brazil.

Tropicoporus linteus grows on oak and tamarind.