The diversity and taxonomy of Tomentella (Thelephoraceae, Thelephorales) with descriptions of four new species from Southwestern China

By

Zhang, Xiaojie
Shi, Fulei
Yang, Ke
Zhao, Changlin

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024

Original Publication

MycoKeys

Volume

109

Pages

1--29

Subjects

Biodiversity , China , Phylogenetic analyses , taxonomy , wood-inhabiting fungi , Yunnan Province

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2011-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.109.132941

 

Abstract

Taxonomy plays a central role in understanding the diversity of life, translating the products of biological exploration and discovery specimens and observations into systems of names that settle a “classification home” to taxa. Up to this point, studies on the taxonomy and phylogeny of the basidiomycetous genus Tomentella stemmed mainly from the temperate to boreal zones of the North Hemisphere, but were scarce in tropical Asia. In this study, four new species, viz. Tomentella olivaceobasidiosa, T. velutina, T. wumenshanensis and T. yunnanensis from China, are described and illustrated based on the morphological characteristics and molecular phylogenetic analyses, in which the sequences of ITS+nLSU+mtSSU+RPB2 genes were used for the phylogenetic analyses using Maximum Likelihood, Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Inference methods. All the new species can be well recognised by their macroscopical and anatomical characteristics. The four new species, closely related taxa in the phylogenetic tree and morphologically similar species are discussed.