Two new species of Hymenochaetaceae on Dracaena cambodiana from tropical China

• Published in: MycoKeys (Sofia, Bulgaria) Vol. 80; pp. 1 - 17
• Main Authors: Du, Ping, Cao, Tian-Xu, Wu, Ying-Da, Zhou, Meng, Liu, Zhan-Bo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 05.05.2021
• Subjects: Asia; Basidiomycota; Hymenochaetaceae; Taxonomy; Phylogenetic analysis; wood-rotting fungi; taxonomy
• ISSN: 1314-4057; 1314-4049
• DOI: 10.3897/MYCOKEYS.80.63997

Two new wood-rotting fungi in the family Hymenochaetaceae, and , are described and illustrated from tropical China based on morphological characteristics and molecular data. It is worth to mention that both of them grow on which is a kind of angiosperm tree distributed in tropical regions. is characterised by perennial, pileate, triquetrous basidioma with yellowish brown fresh pores which becoming honey yellow with silk sheening upon drying, a dimitic hyphal system in trama and monomitic in context, and subglobose basidiospores measuring 4.8-5 × 4-4.1 μm. is characterised by annual, resupinate basidioma with a clay buff hymenophore, a dimitic hyphal system, absence of tomentum and cortex, presence of subulate setae, absence of cystidia, presence of cystidioles and simple hyphidia, and oblong ellipsoid basidiospores measuring 5.2-5.8 × 2.5-2.8 µm. The phylogenetic analyses based on ITS + nLSU rDNA sequences confirm the placement of two new species respectively in and . Phylogenetically closely related species to the two new species are discussed.