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Abstract
Fomitiporia cupressicola sp. nov., found in living Cupressus arizonica, is described on the basis of several collections originating from a high altitude forest in the northern Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. The species forms a monophyletic clade, basal to a larger lineage comprising species originating mainly from temperate to Mediterranean areas of the northern hemisphere. The phylogenetic approach in Fomitiporia also revealed multiple unnamed clades within the F. robusta complex in the southern USA and northern Mexico, representing potential species. The status of the F. robusta complex in North America is discussed briefly.
Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge the financial support from CONACyT (Mexico) and FNRS (Belgium), in the framework of their bilateral cooperation agreement that made field works in Mexico and a research stay possible for by R. Valenzuela and T. Raymundo in Belgium. Thanks also are extended to Dr Karen Nakasone, CFMR, USDA, and Ellen Bloch, NYBG, for sending strains and specimens. Mario Amalfi gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the Belgian State-Belgian Federal Science Policy through an Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme (phase VI, contract P6/06) and the logistic support received from MUCL. Tania Raymundo acknowledges the financial support from CONACYT and the Biological Sciences Post-graduation Program of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Ricardo Valenzuela thanks also COFAA and IPN for supporting his research during the SIP-20110872 and SIP-2010-RE-82 projects. Cony Decock gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Belgian State-Belgian Federal Science Policy through the BCCM research program (contract BCCM C4/10/013). Stéphanie Huret and Céline Bivort also are thanked warmly for their help with the sequencing program.