Cryptic species diversity in polypores: the Skeletocutisnivea species complex
Author
Korhonen, Aku
Author
Seelan, Jaya Seelan Sathiya
Author
Miettinen, Otto
text
MycoKeys
2018
36
45
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.36.27002
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.36.27002
1314-4049--45
Skeletocutis yuchengii Miettinen & A. Korhonen
sp. nov.
Holotype.
China. Yunnan: Xishuangbanna, Menglun, alt. 640 m, indet. angiosperm wood, 4 Aug 2005 Miettinen 9950 (H 7008660, isotype BJFC, strain FBCC 1132).
Description.
Basidiocarps annual; resupinate to half-resupinate; small, up to 2.5 cm wide and 3 mm thick; hard when dry but easy to break apart; pilei nodulous, protruding up to 3 mm; margin blunt; upper surface minutely rough, matted, white to cream coloured when young, turning ochraceous; pore surface cream coloured with yellowish to ochraceous tints; context up to 2.7 mm thick faintly zonate in longitudinal section with fuzzy, ochraceous lines separating layers of growth; tube layer up to 0.3 mm thick; pores 8
-10(-
11) per mm.
Hyphal structure: skeletal hyphae in context / subiculum 1.0
-2.9(-
3.8)
µm
wide, in trama (2.0
-)3.0-4.0(-
5.1)
µm
wide, generative hyphae in trama 1.0
-2.0(-
2.2)
µm
wide.
Basidiospores (2.7
-)2.8-3.1(-3.2)x(0.4-)0.5-
0.7
µm
, L=2.96
µm
. W=0.59
µm
,
Q'=(4.0-)4.1-6.0(-
7.2), Q=4.99, n=90/3.
Distribution and ecology.
The species is known from three specimens from Yunnan, China, collected from twigs of unidentified woody angiosperm.
Etymology.
In honour of the Chinese polypore researcher, Prof. Yu-Cheng Dai.
Specimens examined.
CHINA. Yunnan: (holotype, see above); Xishuangbanna Biosphere Reserve, alt. 700 m, indet. angiosperm wood (dead standing tree), 9 Aug 2005 Miettinen 10150.2 (H); Xishuang Banna Primeval Forest Park, indet. angiosperm wood (fallen branch), 16 Aug 2005 Miettinen 10366.1 (H).
Rejected names