Aurantiporus fissilis (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) H. Jahn ex Ryvarden
(Greasy Bracket)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Aurantiporus fissilis (Greasy Bracket)
Genus	Aurantiporus (a genus of bracket fungi)
Family	POLYPORACEAE (a family of polypores)
Order	POLYPORALES (polypores)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Aurantiporus fissilis is also a member of:
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Ainsworth, M.	2004	Developing tools for assessing fungal interest in habitats, 1: beech woodland saprotrophs	Research Reports, Report no 597, 75pp, English Nature
	Pegler, D.N. & Legon, N.W.	1993	Profiles of Fungi No. 50: Aurantioporus alborubescens (Bourdot & Galzin) Jahn	Mycologist Vol 07 (1): 15.

Aurantiporus fissilis (Greasy Bracket) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

POLYPORACEAE
(a family of polypores)

POLYPORALES
(polypores)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Aurantiporus fissilis (Greasy Bracket)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 6 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Aurantiporus fissilis (Greasy Bracket)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Aurantiporus fissilis is also a member of:

Identification Works

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