Studies in the Antrodia serialis group (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)

ABSTRACT

Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Antrodia serialis group are revised with morphological, ecological, and geographic data, partial translation elongation factor 1-α (tef1) gene sequences, and nuc rDNA ITS1-5.8S-ITS2-28S sequences. The group contains 13 species found in boreal and temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere. The species are limited to certain geographic areas within Eurasia and North America. The traditional morphology-based concept of A. serialis covers at least four closely related species: A. serialis s. str. in Eurasia, A. angusta, sp. nov., in East Asia, A. serrata, sp. nov., in the American Northeast, and A. calcitrosa, sp. nov., in the American Northwest. They all are associated mostly with Picea spp. and show small, but stable morphological differences from each other. In addition, A. morganii, comb. nov., inhabiting wood of Populus spp., occurs in North America, and Antrodia alaskana, comb. nov., a large-pored species, macroscopically similar to A. variiformis, is distributed along the Pacific coast of North America. The pine-dwelling A. flavimontis, sp. nov., similar to A. primaeva from Eurasia, is so far known only from the eastern part of the Rocky Mountains (Utah and Wyoming).

KEYWORDS:

• Brown-rot fungi
• phylogeny
• taxonomy

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The curators of herbaria GB, PRM, TAAM, NY, MICH, BPI, and S are thanked for sending specimens for loan. Tuomo Niemelä (Helsinki, Finland) kindly provided us with his specimens and the color photograph of A. variiformis. The research of J. Vlasák was funded by the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic institutional support RVO: 60077344.

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