A.B. De
This is a manual of the family Polyporaceae based on exhaustive studies on fungi belonging to this group collected from different parts of India during the last 40 years. The family name Polyporaceae was introduced first by Fries in 1838. For a long time the family included fungi with tubes or pores in their basidiocarps. But it gradually appeared that poroid hymenophore evolved in different phylogenetically related groups of fungi and it was realised that much ...