Clades:
Polyporales.
Members: 8 genera; 300 species.
Mycology: containing polypores with a double spore wall. The inner wall is verruculose to ornamented, thickened and usually coloured, while the outer wall is thin and hyaline.
TaxonomyThe Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk described
Ganodermataceae in 1948, containing polypores with a double spore wall. The inner wall is verruculose to ornamented, thickened and usually coloured, while the outer wall is thin and hyaline.
Ganodermataceae: Amauroderma, Elfvingia,Ganoderma, Haddowia, Humphreya,Poliporopsis, Tomophagus, Trachyderma.