Polyporales

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Polyporales
Ganoderma applanatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Polyporales
Gäum. (1926)
Families

   Cystostereaceae
   Fomitopsidaceae
   Ganodermataceae
   Meripilaceae
   Meruliaceae
   Phanerochaetaceae
   Polyporaceae
   Sparassidaceae
   Xenasmataceae

Synonyms

Aphyllophorales Rea
Coriolales Jülich
Fomitopsidales Jülich
Ganodermatales Jülich
Grifolales Jülich
Perenniporiales Jülich
Phaeolales Jülich
Poriales Locquin
Trametales Boidin et al.

The Polyporales are an order of fungi in the phylum Basidiomycota, subclass Agaricomycetidae . The order includes some (but not all) polypores as well as many corticioid fungi and a few agarics (mainly in the genus Lentinus). Species within the order are saprotrophic, most of them wood-rotters. Those of economic importance include several important pathogens of forest and amenity trees and a few species that cause damage by rotting structural timber. Some of the Polyporales are commercially cultivated and marketed for use as food items or in traditional Chinese medicine.

Taxonomy

History

The order was originally proposed in 1926 by German mycologist Ernst Albert Gäumann to accommodate species within the phylum Basidiomycota producing basidiocarps (fruit bodies) showing a gymnocarpous mode of development (forming the spore-bearing surface externally). As such, the order included the ten families Brachybasidiaceae, Corticiaceae, Clavariaceae, Cyphellaceae, Dictyolaceae, Fistulinaceae, Polyporaceae, Radulaceae, Tulasnellaceae, and Vuilleminiaceae, representing a mix of poroid, corticioid, cyphelloid, and clavarioid fungi.[1]

The order was not widely adopted by Gäumann's contemporaries, most mycologists and reference works preferring to use the catch-all, artificial order Aphyllophorales for polypores and other "non-gilled fungi". When an attempt was made to introduce a more natural, morphology-based classification of the fungi in the 1980s and 1990s, the order was still overlooked. A standard 1995 reference work placed most polypores and corticioid fungi in the Ganodermatales, Poriales, and Stereales.[2]

Current status

Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has resurrected and redefined the Polyporales (also known as the polyporoid clade).[3][4][5] Though the precise boundaries of the order and its constituent families are yet to be resolved, it retains the core group of polypores in the family Polyporaceae, with additional species in the Fomitopsidaceae and Meripilaceae. It also includes polypores in the Ganodermataceae which were previously assigned to their own separate order, the Ganodermatales, based on their distinctive basidiospore morphology. Corticioid fungi belonging to the Cystostereaceae, Meruliaceae, Phanerochaetaceae, and Xenasmataceae are also included, as are the cauliflower fungi in the Sparassidaceae.[6]

Habitat and distribution

The order is cosmopolitan and contains around 1800 species of fungi worldwide.[5] All species in the Polyporales are saprotrophs, most of them wood-rotters. They are therefore typically found on living or moribund trees or on dead attached or fallen wood.

Economic importance

Many wood decay fungi in the genera Fomes, Fomitopsis and Ganoderma are pathogenic, causing butt and root rot of living trees and consequent losses in forestry plantations. Several species, such as the mine fungus Antrodia vaillantii, can rot and damage structural timber.[7] Some of the Polyporales, notably Ganoderma lucidum (ling-zhi), Grifola frondosa (maitake),[8] and Trametes versicolor (yun-zhi),[9] are commercially cultivated and marketed for use in traditional Chinese medicine.

References

  1. ↑ Gäumann, E. (1926). Vergleichende Morphologie der Pilze. Jena: Gustav Fischer. 
  2. ↑ Hawksworth DL, Kirk PM, Sutton BC, Pegler DN. (eds) (1995). Dictionary of the Fungi. 8th Ed. Wallingford, Oxford: CABI. ISBN 0-85198-885-7. 
  3. ↑ Hibbett DS. (2006). "A phylogenetic overview of the Agaricomycotina". Mycologia 98: 917–925.  http://www1.univap.br/drauzio/index_arquivos/Myco09.pdf
  4. ↑ Binder M. et al. (2005). "The phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms across the major clades of mushroom-forming fungi (Homobasidiomycetes)". Systematics and Biodiversity' 3: 113–157. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sjökvist E, Larsson E, Larsson K-H. (2009). "A multi-locus phylogeny of the Polyporales (abstract)". Abstract Book, Botany & Mycology, Snowbird, Utah, July 25–29, 2009.  http://swepub.kb.se/bib/swepub:oai:services.scigloo.org:112581?tab2=abs&language=en
  6. ↑ http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp
  7. ↑ http://www.buildingpreservation.com/Rots.htm
  8. ↑ http://www.adaptogeno.com/productos/maitake_ing.asp
  9. ↑ http://psp-research.com/psp9.htm

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