- Proposed
- 2Under Assessment
- 3Preliminary Assessed
- 4Assessed
- 5Published
Microporellus obovatus (Jungh.) Ryvarden
- Scientific name
- Microporellus obovatus
- Author
- (Jungh.) Ryvarden
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Polyporales
- Family
- Polyporaceae
- Assessment status
- Proposed
- Proposed by
- Danilo Chagas
- Comments etc.
- Danilo Chagas, Virton Rodrigo Targino de Oliveira, Tatiana Gibertoni
Assessment Notes
Taxonomic notes
The wine to dark brown pileus surface, the hyphal system with monomitic context with clamped hyphae and dimitic trama and the ellipsoid to subglobose basidiospores (3.5–5.0 × 2.0–4.5 µm) are characteristic of the species (Motato-Vásquez & Gugliotta 2016). It is a synonym of Flabellophora obovata (Jungh.) Corner.
Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?
Geographic range
The species in known in 16 countries, but about 60% of the reports are in Brazil.
Population and Trends
There are about 815 records of this species in GBIF, more than half of them in Brazil.
Population Trend: Uncertain
Habitat and Ecology
Neotropical species. In Brazil the species is found in Amazonia, Atlantic Forest and Cerrado.
Threats
The species is well distributed in Brazil, present in pluvial forest domain. However, the Amazon has currently the highest rates of deforestation in the last decades and the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado are hotspots.
Conservation Actions
Some records in Brazil are in unprotected areas.
Research needed
Other areas should be studied in order to assess the distribution of this species.
Use and Trade
None
