Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Phylogeny and global diversity of Polyporus group Melanopus (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)

  • Published:
Fungal Diversity Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Polyporus accommodates species with stipitate basidiocarps, a dimitic hyphal system with skeleto-binding hyphae, and hyaline, thin-walled, more or less cylindrical basidiospores. The species of Polyporus are divided into six morphological groups, of which Melanopus is characterized by coriaceous basidiocarps, thin context and a black cuticle on the stipe. In this study, we explore the phylogeny and species diversity of Polyporus sensu lato focusing on the group Melanopus based on global samples. Our combined ITS and nLSU dataset included 117 collections represented by 117 ITS and 94 nLSU sequences, of which 43 ITS and 37 nLSU sequences were newly generated. The resulting phylogenetic analysis recovered four clades, Favolus, Neofavolus, Melanopus and Polyporellus clades, while several species in the morphological groups Melanopus and Polyporus were outside these clades. Combined with morphological evidence, three new species in the Melanopus clade, Polyporus americanus, P. austroandinus and P. conifericola, are newly described and illustrated, and their distinctive characters are discussed. The illegitimate name Polyporus fraxineus is renamed as Polyporus fraxinicola. The phylogeny and taxonomy of each species in group Melanopus (morphology) or Melanopus clade (phylogeny) and related species are briefly discussed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Adanson M (1763) Familles des plantes. 2. Vincent, Paris

  • Clements FE, Shear CL (1931) The genera of fungi. H.W. Wilson Co., New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Dai YC (1996) Changbai wood-rotting fungi 5. Study on Polyporus mongolicus and P. tubaeformis. Ann Bot Fenn 33:153–163

    Google Scholar 

  • Dai YC (1999) Changbai wood-rotting fungi 11. Species of Polyporus sensu stricto. Fungal Sci 14:67–77

    Google Scholar 

  • Dai YC (2012) Two new polypores from tropical China, and renaming two species of Polyporus and Phellinus. Mycoscience 53:40–44

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dai YC, Yuan HS (2010) Type studies on polypores described by J. D. Zhao. Ann Bot Fenn 47:113–117

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dai YC, Wei YL, Yuan HS, Huang MY, Penzina T (2007a) Polypores from Altay and Tian Mts. in Xinjiang, northwest China. Cryptogam Mycol 28:269–279

    Google Scholar 

  • Dai YC, Yu CJ, Wang HC (2007b) Polypores from eastern Xizang (Tibet), western China. Ann Bot Fenn 44:135–145

    Google Scholar 

  • Dai YC, Yuan HS, Wang HC, Yang F, Wei YL (2009) Polypores (Basidiomycota) from Qin Mts. in Shaanxi Province, central China. Ann Bot Fenn 46:54–61

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Donk MA (1933) Revisie van de Nederlandse Heterobasidiomyceteae (uitgez. Uredinales en Ustilaginales) en Homobasidiomyceteae-Aphyllophoraceae II. Meded Bot Mus Herb Rijksuniv Utrecht 9:1–278

    Google Scholar 

  • Donk MA (1960) The generic names proposed for Polyporaceae. Persoonia 1:173–302

    Google Scholar 

  • Gilbertson RL, Ryvarden L (1987) North American polypores 2. Fungiflora, Oslo

    Google Scholar 

  • Guindon S, Gascuel O (2003) A simple, fast and accurate method to estimate large phylogenies by maximum-likelihood. Syst Biol 52:696–704

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hjortstam K, Ryvarden L (1985) Some new and noteworthy Basidiomycetes (Aphyllophorales) from Tierra del Fuego. Mycotaxon 22:159–167

    Google Scholar 

  • Katoh K, Toh H (2008) Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program. Brief Bioinform 9:286–298

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Katoh K, Misawa K, Kuma K, Miyata T (2002) MAFFT: a novel method for rapid multiple sequence alignment based on fast Fourier transform. Nucleic Acids Res 30:3059–3066

    Article  CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Krüger D, Gargas A (2004) The basidiomycete genus Polyporus—an emendation based on phylogeny and putative secondary structure of ribosomal RNA molecules. Feddes Repert 115:530–546

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Krüger D, Petersen RH, Hughes KW (2006) Molecular phylogenies and mating study data in Polyporus with special emphasis on group “Melanopus” (Basidiomycota). Mycol Prog 5:185–206

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lee JS, Woo EJ, Oh KH, Kim JJ, Lim YW (2010) The first report of two species of Polyporus (Polyporaceae, Basidiomycota) from South Korea. J Microbiol 48:748–753

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Micheli PA (1729) Nova Plantarum Genera. B. Paperninii, Florence

  • Núñez M, Ryvarden L (1995) Polyporus (Basidiomycotina) and related genera. Synop Fungorum 10:1–85

    Google Scholar 

  • Núñez M, Ryvarden L (2001) East Asian polypores. Synop Fungorum 14:170–522

    Google Scholar 

  • Patouillard N (1887) Les Hyménomycètes d’Europe. Paul Klincksieck, Paris

    Google Scholar 

  • Pattengale ND, Alipour M, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Moret BME, Stamatakis A (2010) How many bootstrap replicates are necessary? J Comput Biol 17:337–354

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Petersen JH (1996) Farvekort. The Danish Mycological Society’s colour-chart. Foreningen til Svampekundskabens Fremme, Greve

  • Posada D (2008) jModelTest: phylogenetic model averaging. Mol Biol Evol 25:1253–1256

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rajchenberg M (2006) Polypores (Basidiomycetes) from the Patagonian Andes Forests of Argentina. Bibliotheca Mycologica Band 201, J. Cramer Verlag, Stuttgart

  • Ronquist F, Huelsenbeck JP (2003) MrBayes 3: bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models. Bioinformatics 19:1572–1574

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ryvarden L (1991) Genera of polypores, nomenclature and taxonomy. Synop Fungorum 5:1–363

    Google Scholar 

  • Ryvarden L, Gilbertson RL (1994) European polypores. Part 2. Synop Fungorum 7:394–743

    Google Scholar 

  • Ryvarden L, Johansen I (1980) A preliminary polypore flora of East Africa. Fungiflora, Oslo

    Google Scholar 

  • Silvestro D, Michalak I (2012) raxmlGUI: a graphical front-end for RAxML. Org Divers Evol 12:335–337

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sotome K, Hattori T, Ota Y, To-anun C, Salleh B, Kakishima M (2008) Phylogenetic relationships of Polyporus and morphologically allied genera. Mycologia 100:603–615

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sotome K, Hattori T, Ota Y, Kakishima M (2009) Second report of Polyporus longiporus and its phylogenetic position. Mycoscience 50:415–420

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sotome K, Hattori T, Ota Y (2011) Taxonomic study on a threatened polypore, Polyporus pseudobetulinus, and a morphologically similar species, P. subvarius. Mycoscience 52:319–326

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sotome K, Akagi Y, Lee SS, Ishikawa NK, Hattori T (2013) Taxonomic study of Favolus and Neofavolus gen. nov. segregated from Polyporus (Basidiomycota, Polyporales). Fungal Divers 58:245–266

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stamatakis A (2006) RAxML-VI-HPC: maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic analyses with thousands of taxa and mixed models. Bioinformatics 22:2688–2690

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Vilgalys R, Hester M (1990) Rapid genetic identification and mapping of enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA from several Cryptococcus species. J Bacteriol 172:4238–4246

    CAS  PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • White TJ, Bruns TD, Lee S, Taylor JW (1990) Amplification and direct sequencing of fungal ribosomal RNA genes for phylogenetics. In: Innis MA, Gelfand DH, Sninsky J, White TJ (eds) PCR protocols: a guide to methods and applications. Academic, San Diego

    Google Scholar 

  • Wright JE, Deschamps JR (1972) Basidiomicetos xilófagos de los bosques andinopatagónicos. Rev Invest Agropecu INTA ser 5 Pat Veg 9:1–155

    Google Scholar 

  • Wright JE, Deschamps JR (1975) Orden Aphyllophorales, Fistulinaceae, Mucronoporaceae, Polyporaceae. In: Guarrera SA, Gamundí de Amos I, Rabinovich de Halperin D (eds) Flora Criptogámica de Tierra del Fuego (3). Editorial FECIC, Buenos Aires

  • Xue HJ, Zhou LW (2012) Polyporus submelanopus sp. nov. (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from Northwest China. Mycotaxon 122:433–441

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhao CL, Cui BK (2012) A new species of Perenniporia (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) described from southern China based on morphological and molecular characters. Mycol Prog 11:555–560

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhao JD, Xu LW, Zhang XQ (1981) On the genus Polyporus of China and its taxonomic position. Acta Microbiol Sin 21:428–437

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. Yuko Ota (Tsukuba, Japan) and Mr. Pertii Salo (Helsinki, Finland) for loans of herbarium specimens. We appreciate help with nomenclatural matters from Prof. Teuvo Ahti (Helsinki, Finland). Financial support is gratefully acknowledged from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project Nos. 31070022, 30910103907) and Chinese Academy of Sciences Grant (Project No. KSCX2-EW-Z-9) to Y.C. Dai, from the institutional support RVO: 60077344 of the Czech Academy of Sciences to J. Vlasák, from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 31200015) to L.W. Zhou, and from CFERN & GENE Award Funds on Ecological Paper to B. Wang.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Microbiology, Beijing Forestry University, P.O. Box 61, Beijing, 100083, People’s Republic of China

    Yu-Cheng Dai

  2. State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110164, People’s Republic of China

    Hui-Jun Xue & Li-Wei Zhou

  3. Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

    Josef Vlasák

  4. Centro Forestal CIEFAP, C.C. 14, 9200, Esquel, Chubut, Argentina

    Mario Rajchenberg

  5. Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry; Key Laboratory of Forest Ecological Environment, State Forestry Administration, Beijing, 100091, China

    Bing Wang

Authors
  1. Yu-Cheng Dai
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Hui-Jun Xue
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Josef Vlasák
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Mario Rajchenberg
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Bing Wang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Li-Wei Zhou
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to Yu-Cheng Dai or Li-Wei Zhou.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Dai, YC., Xue, HJ., Vlasák, J. et al. Phylogeny and global diversity of Polyporus group Melanopus (Polyporales, Basidiomycota). Fungal Diversity 64, 133–144 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-013-0248-3

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-013-0248-3

Keywords

Search

Navigation