Loweomyces
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| Loweomyces fractipes | |
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| Loweomyces fractipes (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Jülich (1982)
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Loweomyces is a genus of six species of poroid fungi in the family Steccherinaceae (formerly placed in the Meruliaceae).[2]
Taxonomy[edit]
It was originally circumscribed as a subgenus of Spongipellis by the Czech mycologists František Kotlaba and Zdeněk Pouzar in 1976.[3] Swiss mycologist Walter Jülich promoted it to a genus segregate from Spongipellis in 1982, with two species: L. fractipes (the type), and L. wynneae. Jülich thought the genus should be distinct from Spongipellis based on the larger basidia, the absence of skeletal hyphae, and smaller tubes.[4] L. fractipes and L. wynneae have had their generic positions confirmed with molecular phylogenetics, and both group in the "residual polyploid clade", one of four main lineages of the Polyporales.[2][5] The genus is named in honour of American mycologist and polypore specialist Josiah Lincoln Lowe.[6]
Description[edit]
Loweomyces is distinguished by the ease of spore germination in growth media, larger basidia, the absence of skeletal hyphae, and smaller tubes, plates or spines, compared with European Spongipellis species.[4] Fruit bodies are either crust-like or have a cap and stipe. The hyphal system is either monomitic (possessing only generative hyphae) or dimitic (having both generative and pseudo-skeletal hyphae).[7]
Species[edit]
The genus contained four species as of January 2015[update].[8] Two new species from Brazil were described in 2016.[7]
- Loweomyces fractipes (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Jülich (1982) – Europe; North America
- Loweomyces sibiricus (Penzina & Ryvarden) (Spirin 2006)[9]
- Loweomyces spissus Westphalen, Tomšovský & Rajchenb. (2016) – Brazil
- Loweomyces subgiganteus (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) (Spirin 2006)[9]
- Loweomyces tomentosus Westphalen, Tomšovský & Rajchenb. (2016)– Brazil
- Loweomyces wynneae (Berk. & Broome) Jülich (1982) – Europe
References[edit]
- ^ "Loweomyces (Kotl. & Pouzar) Jülich". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
- ^ a b Miettinen, Otto; Larsson, Ellen; Sjökvist, Elisabet; Larsson, Karl-Henrik (2012). "Comprehensive taxon sampling reveals unaccounted diversity and morphological plasticity in a group of dimitic polypores (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)". Cladistics. 28 (3): 251–270. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00380.x. PMID 34872189. S2CID 84643554.
- ^ Kotlába, F.; Pouzar, Z. (1976). "On the taxonomic position of Polyporus fractipes". Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. 28: 119–28.
- ^ a b Jülich, W. (1982). "Notes on some Basidiomycetes (Aphyllophorales and Heterobasidiomycetes)". Persoonia. 11 (4): 421–428.
- ^ Binder, Manfred; Justo, Alfredo; Riley, Robert; Salamov, Asaf; Lopez-Giraldez, Francesc; Sjökvist, Elisabet; Copeland, Alex; Foster, Brian; Sun, Hui; Larsson, Ellen; Larsson, Karl-Henrik; Townsend, Jeffrey; Grigoriev, Igor V.; Hibbett, David S. (2013). "Phylogenetic and phylogenomic overview of the Polyporales". Mycologia. 105 (6): 1350–1373. doi:10.3852/13-003. PMID 23935031. S2CID 20812924.
- ^ Ginns, J.; Worrall, J. (2003). "Josiah Lincoln Lowe, 1905–1997". Mycologia. 95 (2): 374–378. doi:10.1080/15572536.2004.11833124. JSTOR 3762050. S2CID 87524545.
- ^ a b Westphalen, Mauro C.; Tomšovský, Michal; Rajchenberg, Mario; Gugliotta, Adriana M. (2016). "Morphological and phylogenetic studies of two new neotropical species of Loweomyces (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)". Mycological Progress. 16 (9): 967–975. doi:10.1007/s11557-016-1223-7. S2CID 6176376.
- ^ Kirk, P.M. "Species Fungorum (version 22nd December 2014). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2015-01-28.
- ^ a b Zmitrovich, Ivan V.; Malysheva, Vera F.; Spirin, Wjacheslav A. (2006). "A new morphological arrangement of the Polyporales. I. Phanerochaetineae" (PDF). Mycena. 6: 4–56.
