Three new species of Lentinus from northern Thailand

Abstract

There have been few studies on the taxonomy and biodiversity of the genus Lentinus in Thailand, which is a genus of edible mushrooms. Recently, collections from 17 sites in northern Thailand yielded 47 specimens of Lentinus sensu lato. Three were shown to be new species of Lentinus sensu stricto and Lentinus roseus, L. concentricus and L. megacystidiatus are introduced in this paper. The new species are described and illustrated with line drawings and are justified and compared with similar taxa. Furthermore, ITS sequence data do not match closely with any species presently lodged in GenBank.

Species listing, distribution, and molecular identification of macrofungi in six Aeta tribal communities in Central Luzon, Philippines

“…Bruns (2001) noted that the ITS region was very variable and not the best region to use for phylogenetic inference on macrofungi. A multi-gene phylogeny of Lentinus species is needed and should be based on a sampling of a wide range of species (Karunarathna et al 2011). However, a close relationship has long been observed between Lentinus and other polypores (Corner 1981;Pegler 1983;Singer 1986).…”

“…The PCR reaction included 1 x PCR buffer, 2.5 µM MgCl 2 , 200 µM dNTP, 0.5 µM of each primer, 1 U Taq DNA polymerase, and 50-100 ng extracted genomic DNA and nanopure water to make a volume of 50 µl. The PCR conditions are as follows: 94 o C for 3 min, followed by 30 cycles at 94 (Karunarathna et al 2011). The PCR products were then purified using QIAGEN purification kit following the manufacturer's instructions and the purified PCR products were sent to Macrogen, South Korea for outdoor DNA sequencing.…”

New records of basidiomycetous macrofugi from Kurdistan region - Northern Iraq

“…Fr. Fruiting body: Cap 42 to 140 mm broad, fleshy, convex at early stage with blackish brown then becoming funnel shaped and white yellowish color with a somewhat wavy margin, upper surface covered with dense blackish brown hairs or scales which become scattered and crowded over the center in age; gills -like decurrent, white to yellowish white, crowded, toothed; stipe 48 to 62 mm long, 6 to 12 mm wide, yellowish white, centric, cylindrical, attenuate downwards into blackish root -like extension, covered with blackish brown hairy scales, dark at the base, often bent, hollow; ring and volva absent (Figure 11 fungus was reported from Turkey (Sesli and Denchev, 2008), south western Nigeria (Adejumo and Awosanya, 2005), Thailand (Karunarathnas et al, 2011), Philippine (Dulay et al, 2014;Dulay et al, 2012), Pakistan (Razaq and Shahzad, 2015) and India (Senthilarasu, 2015;Sharma and Atri, 2015).…”

Agaricus flocculosipes sp. nov., a new potentially cultivatable species from the palaeotropics

“…Our studies of the basidiomycetes from northern Thailand have resulted in documenting many new species and a surprising wealth of biodiversity Kerekes and Desjardin 2009;Wannathes et al 2009;Zhao et al 2010). We have been concentrating recently on potentially cultivatable and edible groups (Karunarathna et al 2010), and this article reports a new, potentially edible and cultivatable species in the genus Agaricus L.: Fr.…”