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Issue: Vol. 305 No. 2: 24 April 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-04-24
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.305.2.6
Page range: 118–120
Abstract views: 17
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Type studies confirm that Perenniporia subacida and its four varieties are synonyms

College of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, P.R. China
Key Laboratory of Forest Disaster Warning and Control of Yunnan Province, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, P.R. China
College of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, P.R. China Yunnan Academy of Biodiversity, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, P.R. China
polypore taxonomy wood-inhabiting fungi Fungi

Abstract

Perenniporia subacida (Peck) Donk, previously known as Polyporus subacidus Peck (Peck 1885), causes a serious wood rot disease in tropical and temperate forests (Gilbertson & Ryvarden 1987, Ryvarden & Gilbertson 1994, Núñez & Ryvarden 2001, Dai et al. 2002, Decock & Stalpers 2006, Zhao et al. 2013, Ryvarden & Melo 2014). Peck (1885) described this taxon with four varieties, Polyporus subacidus var. stalactiticus Peck, P. subacidus var. tenuis Peck, P. subacidus var. tuberculosus Peck and P. subacidus var. vesiculosus Peck based on different hosts and this species has been transferred into several genera, Poria Pers., Chaetoporus P. Karst, Oxyporus (Bourdot & Galzin) Donk and Perenniporia Murrill (Saccardo 1888, Bondartsev & Singer 1941, Parmasto 1961, Donk 1967).