[2] Tropicoporus tropicalis is a wood-decaying basidiomycetes that rarely causes disease in animals and human, and is commonly found in humid climate such as Brazil.

[3][4][5][6][7] In its natural environment, the fungus is associated with white rot woody angiosperms, and has its annual fruiting body on tree trunks and branches.

[3] Tropicoporus tropicalis is a poroid wood-decaying basidiomycete[4][5] that is usually associated with white rot woody angiosperms,[3] grow on deciduous wood,[6] and have fruiting body on infected tree trunks and branches.

[4] It is mainly found in the tropical zone[2] and humid climate,[6] such as Brazil; but is present in Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Costa Rica, Colombia, East Africa, and Malaya, Johore, and Mawaii Malaysia.

[3] The fungus has been recorded to cause fungal pericardial effusion and myocarditis in a French bulldog, that was under immunosuppressive therapy (species was non-pigmented, and has indication of a hyalohyphomycosis infection);[5] and induced a granulomatous mediastinal mass in an immunocompromised Irish Wolfhound dog.

[7][15] In addition, two similar chronic granulomatous disease cases of I. tropicalis infection were later found in immunodeficient children and adults that had caused osteomyelitis.