Albatrellus
Albatrellus is a genus of 16 species in the Albatrellaceae family.[1] Species are common in northern temperate forests, producing medium to large fleshy fruit bodies of various colors.
Phylogeny
Recent parsimony analysis of ITS sequences of various Albatrellus species show that the genus is not monophyletic, and that the species may be divided into two clades.[2] This corroborates prior phylogenetic analysis which suggested that Albatrellus consists of two separate groups with affinity to the Russuloid and Polyporoid clades.[3][4][5]
Description
Species of Albatrellus are terrestrial, with fleshy fruit bodies that differentiate into caps and stems; the stem is either central or eccentric to lateral. Fruit bodies are solitary or in clusters with stem bases or cap margins fused. Context mostly tough-fleshy, white or becoming brightly colored. Hymenophore regularly poroid. Hyphal system monomitic, the generative hyphae septate with or without clamp connections, with thin or somewhat thick, amyloid or inamyloid, indextrinoid and acyanophilous walls; the majority of hyphae are clearly inflated (the fundamental hyphae). The basidiospores are ellipsoid to subglobose in shape, thin-walled to slightly thick-walled, with smooth, amyloid or inamyloid, indextrinoid and acyanophlious walls.[6]
Distribution
Twelve species of Albatrellus occur in North America.[7] The edible Albatrellus ovinus is sold commercially in Finland.[8]
Species
- Albatrellus avellaneus
- Albatrellus borneensis
- Albatrellus caeruleoporus
- Albatrellus cantharellus
- Albatrellus cochleariformis
- Albatrellus confluens
- Albatrellus congoensis
- Albatrellus cristatus
- Albatrellus ellisii
- Albatrellus flettii
- Albatrellus ginnsii
- Albatrellus hirtus
- Albatrellus ovinus
- Albatrellus peckianus
- Albatrellus pes-caprae
- Albatrellus piceiphilus
- Albatrellus pilosus
- Albatrellus similis
- Albatrellus skamanius
- Albatrellus subrubescens
- Albatrellus syringae
- Albatrellus tianschanicus
- Albatrellus yasudae
- Albatrellus yunnanensis
References
- ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi. 10th ed. Wallingford: CABI. p. 18. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
- ^ Cui BK, Wang, Z, Dai YC. (2008). Albatrellus piceiphilus sp nov on the basis of morphological and molecular characters. Fungal Diversity 28:41-8.
- ^ Gardes M, Bruns TD (April 1993). "ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes--application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rusts". Mol. Ecol. 2 (2): 113–8. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.1993.tb00005.x. PMID 8180733.
- ^ Hibbett DS, Pine EM, Langer E, Langer G, Donoghue MJ (October 1997). "Evolution of gilled mushrooms and puffballs inferred from ribosomal DNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 (22): 12002–6. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.22.12002. PMC 23683. PMID 9342352. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=9342352. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
- ^ Larsson E, Larsson KH. (2003). Phylogenetic relationships of russuloid basidiomycetes with emphasis on aphyllophoralean taxa. Mycologia 95: 1037-1065.
- ^ Pouzar Z. (1966). Studies in the Taxonomy of the Polypores II. Folia Geobotanica & Phytotaxonomica 1(4):356-75.
- ^ Ryvarden, Leif; Gilbertson, Robert L. (1986). North American polypores. Oslo, Norway: Fungiflora. ISBN 0-945345-06-2.
- ^ Pelkonen,, Riina; Alfthan, Georg, Järvinen, Olli (2008). Element Concentrations in Wild Edible Mushrooms in Finland. Helsinki: Finnish Environment Institute. p. 32. ISBN 978-952-11-3153-0. http://www.ymparisto.fi/download.asp?contentid=87635. Retrieved 2009-02-20.