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Issue: Vol. 162 No. 3: 13 March 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-03-13
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.162.3.3
Page range: 147–156
Abstract views: 16
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Postia (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from China based on morphological and molecular evidence

Institute of Microbiology, PO Box 61, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Institute of Microbiology, PO Box 61, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Institute of Microbiology, PO Box 61, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Brown-rot fungi Fomitopsidaceae phylogeny polypore taxonomy

Abstract

A new polypore, Postia duplicata, collected in Yunnan and Zhejiang provinces, is described and illustrated on the basis of morphological and molecular characters. Postia duplicata is characterized by pileate basidiomata with pale brownish to brown pore surface when bruised, duplex context, a monomitic hyphal system with clamped generative hyphae, presence of gloeocystidia in the hymenium, and cylindrical basidiospores (3.8–5.8 × 1.8–2.5 µm). Both morphological and molecular evidence confirmed the placement of the new species in Postia and showed its phylogenetic relationships.