Auricularia thailandica sp. nov. (Auriculariaceae, Auriculariales) a widely distributed species from Southeastern Asia

Abstract

Auricularia is an important genus among the jelly fungi due to its popular consumption and medicinal properties. A new species of Auricularia, A. thailandica is described from fresh collections made from the Philippines, Thailand and Southern China based on morphological and molecular characters. Auricularia thailandica differs from other species by having short and loosely arranged abhymenial hairs on the basidiomata and in the different size of the zones in a cross section of the basidiomata. The species is found to be widely distributed in Southeastern Asia. Phylogenetic relationships were inferred based on the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region. The new species is introduced with full description and illustrations.

Global Diversity and Updated Phylogeny of Auricularia (Auriculariales, Basidiomycota)

“…Auricularia thailandica Bandara & K.D. Hyde was recently described from Thailand by Bandara et al [24], and it is very close to A. fibrillifera both in morphology and phylogeny. Both species occur in Southeast Asia and it is very difficult to distinguish them by morphology, especially the dry basidiomata.…”

“…An additional ten new species, including A. [22][23][24][25][26]. In addition, the phylogenetic analysis based on nLSU sequences showed that Auricularia was polyphyletic [27][28][29], but the genus was shown to be monophyletic in recent multi-gene phylogenetic analyses based on ITS and nLSU sequences [30,31].…”

“…Although afore-mentioned studies on phylogeny and taxonomy of Auricularia were carried out [20,[22][23][24][25][26], they are either based on limited samples or focus on one species complex. Thus, the aim of this study is to improve the current knowledge of the phylogeny and species diversity of Auricularia worldwide by analyzing 277 samples (including 27 type specimens) from 35 countries in Asia, Europe, North and South America, Africa and Oceania.…”

Redelimitation of Heteroradulum (Auriculariales, Basidiomycota) with H. australiense sp. nov.

“…With this phylogenetic frame as a main reference, the taxonomy and phylogeny of poroid and lamellate species were further explored (Miettinen et al 2012;Zhou and Dai 2013;Sotome et al 2014;Wu et al 2017;Spirin et al 2019a). In addition, the knowledge of the diversity of species with gelatinous basidiomes has been extremely enriched recently (Bandara et al 2015;Wu et al 2015a, b;Malysheva et al 2018;Spirin et al 2018Spirin et al , 2019bChen et al 2020;Ye et al 2020;Wang and Thorn 2021).…”

Effect of dietary <i>Auricularia cornea</i> culture supplementation on growth performance, serum biochemistry profile and meat quality in growing-finishing pigs

“…As a kind of edible and medicinal fungi, Auricularia mushrooms have been widely consumed all around the world. As the fourth most produced mushroom genera, Auricularia has been collected, cultivated and consumed in many countries, such as China, Japan, Vietnam and New Zealand, for hundreds of years (Bandara et al, 2015). Mounting studies have revealed a wide range of pharmacological functions of Auricularia and their derivatives.…”