Fuscoporia bifurcata
Fuscoporia bifurcata. Photo: Thiago Kossmann.
Fuscoporia bifurcata is a saprobic fungus species, found growing in dead trunks of Avicennia schaueriana and Laguncularia racemosa, species that occur in Brazilian mangroves. There are just eight records for the species in four different localities in southern Brazil. It is estimated that F. bifurcata occurs in small mangrove patches throughout the Brazilian Atlantic coast in the south and north. Despite the efforts to conserve Brazilian mangroves, threats such as human occupation and associated impacts, like shrimp farms, and climate change, turn the mangrove into a sensible and threatened biome. With these threats and their impacts on the species population, F. bifurcata was assessed as Vulnerable based on the IUCN criteria.
F. bifurcata distribution map. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/187001061/187004595.
References
- Drechsler-Santos, E.R., Kossmann, T., Bittencourt, F. & da Cunha, K.M. 2020. Fuscoporia bifurcata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T187001061A187004595. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T187001061A187004595.en. Downloaded on 24 February 2021.
