Three new species of Hydnophlebia (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from the Macaronesian Islands

By

Telleria, María Teresa
Dueñas, Margarita
Martín, Maria P.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

MycoKeys

Volume

27

Pages

39-64

Subjects

Agaricomycetes , Canary Islands , Cape Verde Archipelago , corticioid fungi , Phylogeny , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2011-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.27.14866

 

Abstract

The genus Hydnophlebia includes two species of wood-inhabiting fungi, Hydnophlebia chrysorhizon and Hydnophlebia omnivora. Both are characterized by cream to reddish-orange, resupinate basidiome, with hydnoid hymenophore, margin with strands, a monomitic hyphal system, tubular to ventricose cystidia and elliptical spores. In this paper, a taxonomic study of Hydnophlebia, using morphology and molecular analyses of large subunit nuclear ribosomal DNA (LSU) and the internal transcribed spacer nrDNA operon (ITS), is reported. Three new species, Hydnophlebia canariensis, H. gorgonea and H. meloi, from the Macaronesia bioregion (Canary Islands and Cape Verde Archipelago), are described.