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Taxonomy & Inventories
Fomitiporella crystallina sp. nov. (Basidiomycota, Hymenochaetales) from China
expand article infoXiao-Hong Ji, Longfei Fan§
‡ College of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, China
§ College of Plant Protection, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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Abstract

Background

Fomitiporella is an important genus of wood-decaying fungi. Many new species were revealed in the last five years, based on morphological characters and molecular data. During a study on the taxonomy of Fomitiporella, two specimens from China were investigated, which have morphological characteristics close to Fomitiporella. After morphological examinations and phylogenetic analyses, a new species was confirmed to be a member of the Fomitiporella clade.

New information

Fomitiporella crystallina sp. nov. is described and illustrated as a new species, based on morphological characters and molecular evidence. It has perennial, irregular, pileate basidiocarps, an indistinct subiculum (ultrathin to almost lacking), lack of any kind of setae, has brownish, thick-walled basidiospores and causes a white rot. A molecular study, based on the combined ITS (internal transcribed spacer region) and nrLSU (the large nuclear ribosomal RNA subunit) dataset, supports the new species in Fomitiporella. The differences between the new species and phylogenetically related and morphologically similar species are discussed. A key to species with pileate to effused-reflexed basidiocarps of Fomitiporella is given.

Keywords

Taxonomy, phylogeny, wood-decaying fungi

Introduction

Fomitiporella Murrill (1907), typified by F. umbrinella Murrill, was proposed to accommodate polypores with perennial, resupinate and adnate basidiocarps, a thin subiculum, stratified tubes and subglobose and brown basidiospores. However, it was not treated as an independent genus, but as a synonym of Phellinus Quél. by most mycologists (Ryvarden and Johansen 1980, Larsen and Cobb-Poulle 1990, Ryvarden 1991, Ryvarden and Gilbertson 1994, Dai 1999, Núñez and Ryvarden 2000) until Wagner and Fischer (2002) confirmed Fomitiporella as a distinct genus in Hymenochaetaceae, based on nrLSU DNA sequence data. Fomitiporella was accepted as a monophyletic genus by molecular phylogeny (Zhou 2014). Ji et al. (2017) broadened its concept to accommodate species with resupinate to effused reflexed and annual basidiocarps. Recently, Arambarria Rajchenb. & Pildain, Phellinotus Drechsler-Santos, Robledo & Rajchenb. and Rajchenbergia Salvador-Montoya were established and formed three clades in phylogeny of Fomitiporella (Rajchenberg et al. 2015, Drechsler-Santos et al. 2016, Salvador-Montoya et al. 2020). However, based on molecular data and morphological re-interpretation, these genera were treated as synonyms of Fomitiporella (Wu et al. 2022). Furthermore, several species with pileate basidiocarps were introduced into Fomitiporella (Wu et al. 2022).

During a study on the taxonomy of Fomitiporella, two collections from China were investigated. After morphological examinations and phylogenetic analyses, a new species was confirmed to be member of the Fomitiporella clade. In this paper, we describe and illustrate the new species. In addition, an identification key to the worldwide species with pileate to effused-reflexed basidiocarps of Fomitiporella is provided.

Materials and methods

Morphology

Studied specimens are deposited in the herbaria of Southwest Forestry University (SWFC) and the Mycological Herbarium of Jiujiang University (MHJU). Microscopic examination follows Dai (2010) and colour terms follow Petersen (1996). Microscopic structures were photographed using a Nikon Digital Sight DS-Fi1 camera. Microscopic measurements were made from slide preparations stained with Cotton Blue and Melzer’s reagent. In the text, the following abbreviations were used: KOH = 5% potassium hydroxide, IKI = Melzer’s reagent, IKI– = neither amyloid nor dextrinoid, CB = Cotton Blue, CB(+) = cyanophilic after 12 hours stained with Cotton Blue, CB– = acyanophilic, L = mean spore length, W = mean spore width, Q = variation in the ratios of L/W between specimens studied, n = number of spores measured from given number of specimens.

Molecular phylogeny

DNA extraction, amplification and sequencing

A CTAB rapid plant genome extraction kit (Aidlab Biotechnologies Co., Ltd., Beijing, China) was used to extract total genomic DNA from dried specimens following the manufacturer’s instructions with some modifications (Chen et al. 2016). The DNA was amplified with the primers: ITS4 and ITS5 for ITS (White et al. 1990) and LR0R and LR7 for nrLSU. The PCR protocol for ITS was as follows: initial denaturation at 95°C for 3 min, followed by 35 cycles at 94°C for 40 s, 54°C for 45 s and 72°C for 1 min and a final extension of 72°C for 10 min. The PCR procedure for nrLSU was as follows: initial denaturation at 94°C for 1 min, followed by 35 cycles at 94°C for 30 s, 50°C for 1 min and 72°C for 1.5 min and a final extension of 72°C for 10 min. The PCR products were purified and sequenced at the Changsha Genomics Institute, China, with the same primers. The resulted ITS and nrLSU sequences were submitted to GenBank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank).

Phylogenetic analysis

Besides the newly-generated sequences, additional sequences from a previous phylogenetic study on Fomitiporella (Wu et al. 2022) were included in the current dataset (Table 1). The dataset, outgrouped by Inocutis dryophila (Berk.) Fiasson & Niemelä (Wu et al. 2022), was aligned using BioEdit (Hall 1999) and ClustalX 1.83 (Chenna et al. 2003). Alignment was manually adjusted to allow maximum alignment and to minimise gaps. Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Bayesian Inference (BI) were employed to perform phylogenetic analysis of the aligned dataset.

Table 1.

Information on the sequences used in this study. Type specimens are shown in bold.

Species

Location

Sample no.

GenBank accession no.

ITS

nLSU

Fomitiporella austroasiana

China

Dai 16244

MG657328

MG657320

F. austroasiana

China

Dai 16168

MG657329

MG657321

F. austroasiana

Singapore

Dai 17879

MG657330

MG657324

F. badia

Mexico

JV 1707/22-J

MW928042

F. badia

USA

JV 0205/1J

MW928043

F. caryophylli

India

CBS 448.76

AY558611

AY059021

F. cavicola

UK

N 153

AY059052

F. caviphila

China

LWZ 20130812-1

KF729937

F. chinensis

China

Cui 11097

KX181310

KX181342

F. chinensis

China

LWZ 20130713-7

KJ787817

KJ787808

F. chinensis

China

LWZ 20130916-3

KJ787818

KJ787809

F. coruscans

USA

JV 1312/E2J

KX181294

KX181333

F. coruscans

USA

JV 1407/46

KX181295

KX181332

F. coruscans

USA

JV 0409/6J

KX181296

KX181331

F. coruscans

USA

JV 1207/6.1J

KX181297

KX181330

F. crassa

Australia

Dai 18787

MW924064

MW892735

F. crassa

Australia

Dai 18716

MW924063

MW892736

F. crystallina

China

CL Zhao 9453

ON493552

ON493576

F. crystallina

China

CL Zhao 9567

ON493553

ON493577

F. destruens

Uruguay

CGP 473

KY907683

KY907687

F. destruens

Uruguay

CGP 474

KY907682

KY907692

F. destruens

Argentina

CIEFAPcc 192

AY072033

KP347520

F. destruens

Chile

Fv.Ch-7

DQ459301

F. inermis

USA

JV 0509/57K

KX181305

KX181346

F. inermis

USA

JV 1109/19A

KX181304

F. inermis

USA

JV 1009/56

KX181306

KX181347

F. mangrovei

USA

JV 1008/60

KX181313

KX181334

F. mangrovei

France

JV 1612/25-J

MG657331

MG657325

F. neoarida

Brazil

URM 80362

KM211294

KM211286

F. pertenuis

Brazil

PPT 111

MG806101

MG806100

F. piptadeniae

Brazil

URM 80322

KM211290

KM211282

F. piptadeniae

Brazil

URM 80345

KM211291

KM211283

F. queenslandica

Australia

Dai 18849

MW892737

F. queenslandica

Australia

Dai 18844

MW892738

F. resupinata

Cameroon

Douanla-Meli 476

KJ787822

JF712935

F. sinica

China

LWZ 20140625-2

KX181301

KX181320

F. sinica

China

LWZ 20140624-5

KX181302

KX181321

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STE-U7109

KP279300

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STE-U7136

JQ038896

Fomitiporella sp.

China

Cui 6557

KX181303

Fomitiporella sp.

China

Cui 11352

KX181315

KX181338

Fomitiporella sp.

China

LWZ 20140721-2

KX181316

KX181337

Fomitiporella sp.

Thailand

LWZ 20140729-22

KX181317

KX181339

Fomitiporella sp.

Ethiopia

AM 12

JF895466

JQ910908

Fomitiporella sp.

Ethiopia

AM 15

JF895467

JQ910909

Fomitiporella sp.

Ethiopia

AM 18

JF895468

JQ910910

Fomitiporella sp.

Ethiopia

AM 04

KX181318

KX181335

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STEU 7147

JQ038897

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STEU 7042

JQ038893

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STEU 7155

KP279297

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STEU 7154

JQ038894

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STEU 7148

KP279296

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STEU 7141

KP279295

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STEU 7798

KP279299

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STEU 7039

JQ038892

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STEU 7038

JQ038891

Fomitiporella sp.

South Africa

STEU 7799

KP279298

Fomitiporella sp.

USA

0509/114

KX181314

KX181336

Fomitiporella sp.

USA

CBS 303.66

AY059036

F. subinermis

China

Dai 15114

KX181308

KX181344

F. subinermis

China

Dai 15131

KX181307

KX181345

F. tenuissima

China

Dai 12365

KC456244

KC999901

F. tenuissima

China

Dai 12245

KC456242

KC999902

F. tenuissima

China

Dai 12255

KC456243

KC999903

F. umbrinella

USA

JV 0312/26.6J

KX181291

F. umbrinella

USA

JV 0904/149J

KX181293

KX181329

F. vietnamensis

Vietnam

Dai 18377

MG657332

MG657326

F. vietnamensis

Vietnam

Dai 18382

MG657333

MG657327

Inocutis dryophila

USA

L(61)5-20-A

AM269783

AM269846

I. dryophila

USA

SP 25

AM269782

AM269845

The two phylogenetic analysis algorithms generated nearly congruent topologies for the dataset and, thus, only the topology from the ML analysis is presented along with statistical values from the ML and BI algorithms (BS not less than 50% and BPP not less than 0.9) at the nodes. The tree was visualised in TreeView 1.6.6 (Page 1996).

Taxon treatment

Fomitiporella crystallina X.H. Ji, sp. nov.

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Holotype:
  1. scientificName:
    Fomitiporella crystallina
    ; acceptedNameUsage:
    Fomitiporella crystallina X.H. Ji, 2022, sp. nov.
    ; parentNameUsage:
    Fomitiporella, Murrill, 1907
    ; kingdom:
    Fungi
    ; phylum:
    Basidiomycota
    ; class:
    Agaricomycetes
    ; order:
    Hymenochaetales
    ; family:
    Hymenochaetaceae
    ; taxonRank:
    species
    ; verbatimTaxonRank:
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    Crystallina
    ; scientificNameAuthorship:
    X.H. Ji
    ; continent:
    Asia
    ; country:
    China
    ; stateProvince:
    Yunnan Province
    ; municipality:
    Puer
    ; locality:
    Huilianghe,Puer,Yunnan Province,China
    ; verbatimElevation:
    1400 m
    ; locationRemarks:
    label transliteration: "Yunnan, Jingdong Yi Autonomous County, Huilianghe, 2019 1.5, Zhao Changlin et al."; [云南会良河村 2019.01.05, 赵长林等]
    ; georeferenceProtocol:
    label
    ; samplingProtocol:
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    ; eventDate:
    2019.1.5
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    Zhao Chang-Lin
    ; identifiedBy:
    Ji Xiaohong
    ; dateIdentified:
    2019
    ; language:
    en
    ; institutionCode:
    the herbaria of Southwest Forestry University (SWFC) and the Mycological Herbarium of Jiujiang University (MHJU)
    ; collectionCode:
    Fungi
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    the herbaria of Southwest Forestry University (SWFC) and the Mycological Herbarium of Jiujiang University (MHJU)
    ; occurrenceID:
    8A2E5C2A-F223-5678-9985-3E269FEF13D5
Isotype:
  1. scientificName:
    Fomitiporella crystallina
    ; acceptedNameUsage:
    Fomitiporella crystallina X.H. Ji, 2022, sp. nov.
    ; parentNameUsage:
    Fomitiporella Murrill, 1907
    ; kingdom:
    Fungi
    ; phylum:
    Basidiomycota
    ; class:
    Agaricomycetes
    ; order:
    Hymenochaetales
    ; family:
    Hymenochaetaceae
    ; taxonRank:
    species
    ; verbatimTaxonRank:
    species
    ; genus:
    Fomitiporella
    ; specificEpithet:
    Crystallina
    ; scientificNameAuthorship:
    X.H. Ji
    ; continent:
    Asia
    ; country:
    China
    ; stateProvince:
    Yunnan Province
    ; municipality:
    Puer
    ; locality:
    Huilianghe,Puer,Yunnan Province,China
    ; verbatimElevation:
    1400 m
    ; locationRemarks:
    label transliteration: "Yunnan, Jingdong Yi Autonomous County, Huilianghe, 2019 1.5, Zhao Changlin et al."; [云南会良河村 2019.01.05, 赵长林等]
    ; georeferenceProtocol:
    label
    ; samplingProtocol:
    collecting
    ; eventDate:
    2019.1.5
    ; recordNumber:
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    Zhao Chang-Lin
    ; identifiedBy:
    Ji Xiaohong
    ; dateIdentified:
    2019
    ; language:
    en
    ; institutionCode:
    the herbaria of Southwest Forestry University (SWFC) and the Mycological Herbarium of Jiujiang University (MHJU)
    ; collectionCode:
    Fungi
    ; ownerInstitutionCode:
    the herbaria of Southwest Forestry University (SWFC) and the Mycological Herbarium of Jiujiang University (MHJU)
    ; occurrenceID:
    BDA3DEBA-4C54-545A-AF79-7FB591AD7C9E

Description

Fruiting body (Fig. 2): Basidiocarps perennial, pileate to pendent, hard corky and without odour or taste when fresh, woody hard and medium in weight when dry; pilei irregular, projecting up to 8 cm, 4 cm wide and 3.5 cm thick at base; pileal surface black to dark brown at the margin, narrowly concentrically sulcate, glabrous, with a very hard black crust 1–5 mm thick; margin obtuse. Pore surface greyish-brown when fresh, becoming deep olive when dry; sterile margin yellowish-brown, up to 2 mm wide; pores circular to angular, 5–8 per mm; dissepiments thin, more or less entire to slightly lacerate; tubes woody hard, concolorous with pores, each layer up to 2 mm deep, white mycelial strands present in old tubes. Subiculum very thin to almost lacking.

Figure 1.  

Phylogeny of Fomitiporella inferred from the ITS and nrLSU dataset. Topology is from ML tree and statistical values (ML/BI) are indicated for each node that simultaneously received BS from ML not below 50%, and BPP from BI not below 0.9.

Figure 2.  

Basidiocarp of Fomitiporella crystallina (CL Zhao 9453). Scalebar: 1 cm.

Hyphal structure: Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae simple septate; skeletal hyphae dominant; tissue darkening but otherwise unchanged in KOH.

Tubes: Generative hyphae frequent, hyaline to pale yellow, thin- to slightly thick-walled, occasionally branched, frequently simple septate 1.5–2.5 μm in diam; skeletal hyphae golden yellow to pale brown, thick-walled with a wide to narrow lumen, unbranched, aseptate, interwoven, 2–3.5 μm in diam; setae and cystidioles absent; hymenium collapsed in the studied material, basidia and basidioles not seen; small or large rhomboid crystals abundant.

Spores: Basidiospores broadly ellipsoid, golden yellow, thick-walled, smooth, IKI–, CB(+), (4.1–)4.3–4.7(–4.9) × (3–)3.2–3.9(–4) µm, L = 4.50 µm, W = 3.42 µm, Q = 1.20–1.35 (n = 60/2) (Fig. 3).

Figure 3.  

Microscopic structures of Fomitiporella crystallina (CL Zhao 9453). A Basidiospores; B Rhomboid crystals; C Hyphae from trama. Scale bars: 5 μm.

Etymology

Crystallina, referring to the species having abundant crystals.

Identification keys

An identification key to the accepted species with pileate to effused-reflexed basidiocarps of Fomitiporella.

1 Basidiocarps pileate 2
Basidiocarps effused-reflexed 6
2 Basidiospores 4–5 µm long 3
Basidiospores 5–7.5 µm long 4
3 Pores 8–9 per mm F. queenslandica
Pores 5–8 per mm F. crystallina
4 Context with a granular core, black line absent F. neoarida (Drechsler-Santos & Robledo) Y.C. Dai & F. Wu
Context without a granular core, black line present 5
5 Baisiospores 5‒5.5 × 3.5‒4.5 μm F. piptadeniae (Teixeira) Y.C. Dai & F. Wu
Baisiospores 7–7.5 × 5.5–6 μm F. badius (Cooke) Y.C. Dai & F. Wu
6 Basidiocarps annual to biennial 7
Basidiocarps perennial 8
7 Context homogeneous; hyphal system monomitic; Neotropical species F. destruens (Rajchenb. & Pildain) Y.C. Dai
Context duplex; hyphal system dimitic; Asian species F. chinensis (Pilát) Y.C. Dai, X.H. Ji & Vlasák
8 Pores 1–4 per mm 9
Pores 4–9 per mm 10
9 Basidiospores 5.2–6.5 μm long F. cyclobalanopsidis (T.T. Chang & W.N. Chou) Y.C. Dai & F. Wu
Basidiospores 7.5–9.5 μm long F. shoushana (T.T. Chang & W.N. Chou) Y.C. Dai & F. Wu
10 Pores 7–9 per mm; basidiospores 3–4 µm long F. caryophylli (Racib.) T. Wagner & M. Fisch.
Pores 4–7 per mm; basidiospores 4–4.8 µm long F. vietnamensis Y.C. Dai, X.H. Ji & J. Vlasák

Analysis

A total of 68 fungal collections, representing 22 species and 22 taxa of Fomitiporella, were included in the phylogenetic analyses and two samples of genus Inocutis were used as outgroups. The final alignment comprised a total of 1667 base pairs (bp) including 804 of ITS and 863 of nrLSU. Two sampled specimens of the new species, Fomitiporella crystallina, formed a well-supported lineage (BS/PP values 98/1.0), indicating that they are phylogenetically distinct from other species in Fig. 1.

Discussion

Fomitiporella crystallina has unique morphological characters in Fomitiporella and forms a distinct lineage within the Fomitiporella clade. Morphologically, F. crystallina is similar to F. queenslandica Y.C. Dai & F. Wu in sharing perennial, pileate basidiocarps, a dimitic hyphal structure and the same size of basidiospores (4.1–5 × 3–4 μm), whereas the latter has dimidiate pilei and smaller pores (5–8 per mm; Wu et al. (2022)). Moreover, the presence of the cystidioles and a distinct subiculum in F. queenslandica makes it different from F. crystallina. Phylogenetically, Fomitiporella crystallina is closely related to F. cavicola (Kotl. & Pouzar) T. Wagner & M. Fisch. by sharing the perennial basidiocarps, a dimitic hyphal system and the same size range of pores (5–8 per mm), but F. cavicola has resupinate basidiocarps and larger basidiospores (4.7–5.5 × 4–4.5 μm). In addition, F. cavicola is known from Europe only (Kotlaba and Pouzar 1995).

In conclusion, both morphology and phylogeny support that the specimens, collected from China, are a new species within the genus Fomitiporella.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Dr. Chang-Lin Zhao (Kunming, China) who allowed us to study his specimens. The research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project Nos. 32000014) and National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (Project No. 20202BABL213043).

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