Abstract
A combined dataset of rDNA ITS and LSU sequences was used to infer the phylogenetic relationships of Hydnochaete peroxydata (≡ Hydnum peroxydatum), the type species of Hydnochaete. The species was retrieved nested within the Hymenochaete s. str. clade; therefore Hydnochaete is regarded as a synonym of Hymenochaete and the new combination Hymenochaete peroxydata is proposed.
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful for the help of Olivier Chauveau and Larissa Trierveiler Pereira for contributions on a preliminary draft of the manuscript and suggestions on the phylogenetic analyses. Loreta Brandão de Freitas and Patrícia Valente da Silva also made suggestions for these analyses. JMB has doctoral scholarships from CNPq (GD 141495/2010-3) and CAPES (PDSE—proceeding 9715/11-8). CAPES (Brazil) and MINCyT (Argentina) are thanked by financial support ( Bilateral cooperation CAPES/MIN-CyT Rede 003/11). MBP and MR are researchers of CONICET (Argentina).