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Issue: Vol. 280 No. 1: 14 October 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-10-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.280.1.5
Page range: 55–62
Abstract views: 19
PDF downloaded: 1

Cerarioporia cystidiata gen. et sp. nov. (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) evidenced by morphological characters and molecular phylogeny

Institute of Microbiology, PO Box 61, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Shenyang 110016, China
Institute of Microbiology, PO Box 61, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
Institute of Microbiology, PO Box 61, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Polypores taxonomy wood-rotting fungi Fungi

Abstract

Cerarioporia cystidiata gen. et sp. nov. is proposed on the basis of a combination of a specific set of morphological characters and molecular (DNA-based) evidences. Cerarioporia is characterized by seasonal, resupinate basidiomata waxy when fresh drying resinous, a dimitic hyphal system with clamped generative hyphae and skeletal hyphae, distinctly thick-walled encrusted hymenial cystidia, and hyaline, thin-walled, smooth, fusiform basidiospores. Cerarioporia cystidiata was found growing on rotten angiosperm wood, and seems to cause a white rot in very humid tropical forest. Phylogenetic analyses based on n28S, and a combined n28S and ITS datasets show that Cerarioporia belongs to the core polyporoid clade of Polyporales.