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Issue: Vol. 317 No. 2: 15 August 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-15
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.317.2.6
Page range: 137–143
Abstract views: 17
PDF downloaded: 1

Aporpium miniporum, a new polyporoid species with vertically septate basidia from southern China

Institute of Microbiology, PO Box 61, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
Institute of Microbiology, PO Box 61, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Institute of Microbiology, PO Box 61, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Auriculariales Elmerina polypore Protomerulius taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

Vertically septate basidium is rarely present in polyporoid fungal species. In this study, Aporpium miniporum is newly described from Hainan, southern China based on a combination of morphological and ITS-based phylogenetic evidence. This new species is close to Aporpium dimidiatum and A. efibulatum from both morphological and phylogenetic perspectives. Aporpium miniporum differs from A. dimidiatum by its resupinate, effuse-reflexed to pileate basidiocarps, smaller pores and smaller allantoid basidiospores. Aporpium efibulatum is also known from Hainan, but bears resupinate basidiocarps, larger pores and ellipsoid basidiospores.