A revised checklist of corticioid and hydnoid fungi in China for 2010

Abstract

Corticioid fungi are one of the major groups of wood-inhabiting fungi, and they are mainly confined to the orders Corticiales, Trechisporales and Atheliales among Basidiomycetes. Hydnoid fungi are aphyllophoroid fungi with spine-or tooth-like hymenophore, and most species of them are in the orders of Russulales and Thelephorales. Many hydnoid fungi are wood-inhabiting, but some of them are mycorrhizas. Corticioid fungi and many hydnoid fungi have a similar ecology in forest ecosystems. The current knowledge of corticioid and hydnoid fungi in China is summarized, and totally 506 species are listed alphabetically. A new species, Stereum lithocarpi, is described and illustrated. Two species, Dichostereum boreale and Thanatephorus fusisporus, are new to Chinese fungal flora, and a condensed description of these species is given.

Progress report on the study of wood-decaying fungi in China

“…After a series of thorough investigations, a total of 28908 specimens and 2469 strains have been deposited at the herbaria of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IFP) and the Institute of Microbiology, Beijing Forestry University (BJFC) for further study. Using these materials, the species lists of WDF for each provincial level district and certain famous mountains and hot-spot regions of China have been published [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57], besides those in the whole country [20][21][22].…”

“…Over the past two decades, investigation and application of WDF as a resource have prospered. More than 1200 species have been recorded in China [20][21][22], of which 160 are newly described , 152 are forest pathogens [6] and 158 have medicinal functions [8]. Therefore, it is fair to say that the study of WDF in China, especially that on taxonomy, has been top-notch worldwide.…”

Spelling out Jaapia species

“…It is known in Europe from Austria, Belgium, Caucasus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom (Bresadola 1911;Bourdot and Galzin 1928;Rogers 1943;Nannfeldt and Eriksson 1953;Eriksson and Ryvarden 1976;Hjortstam et al 1981;Dueñas and Telleria 1984;Boidin and Gilles 1990;Melo and Telleria 1991;Legon et al 2005;Bernicchia and Gorjón 2010) as well as the Azores Archipelago (Telleria et al 2009). Moreover, it has been reported from America: USA (Rogers 1943;Nannfeldt and Eriksson 1953;Ginns and Lefebvre 1993), Canada (Rogers 1943;Nannfeldt and Eriksson 1953) and Argentina (Gorjón et al 2012); as well as from Africa, in Kenya (Hjortstam 1987), and Asia, in China (Dai 2011).…”

Preliminary Investigation on the Chemical Constituents and Antioxidant Activities of Two <i>Phellinus</i> Mushrooms Collected in Foshan

“…Mushrooms in the genus Phellinus have attracted much attention due to its long history and high medicinal value [2]. Among them, Phellinus pini, also known as Huang Zhi, pine white rot fungus, which has anti-cancer, can enhance immunity, lower blood sugar and other activities, is a good medicine for cancer treatment [3] [4] [5]. During an ongoing study to discover natural products with antioxidant activity from mushrooms, we collected two mushrooms in Foshan city, Guangdong province, and identified them as Phellinus mushrooms.…”