Lignosus
| Lignosus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Polyporales |
| Family: | Polyporaceae |
| Genus: | Lignosus Lloyd ex Torrend (1920) |
| Type species | |
| Lignosus sacer (Afzel. ex Fr.) Torrend (1920) | |
Lignosus is a genus of fungi in the family Polyporaceae. The genus was described in 1920 by mycologists Curtis Gates Lloyd and Camille Torrend, with L. sacer as the type species.[1]
Species
The genome of the species L. rhinocerus, the sclerotium of which is used as a traditional medicine in Southeast Asia, was published in 2014. Its genome is enriched with genes involved in the biosynthesis of sesquiterpenoid compounds.[2] Eight species are known in Lignosus:
- L. cameronensis – Malaysia[3]
- L. dimiticus
- L. ekombitii – Cameroon[4]
- L. goetzei
- L. hainanensis – Tropical China[5]
- L. rhinocerus
- L. sacer
- L. tigris – Malaysia[3]
References
- ↑ Torrend C. (1920). "Les Polyporacées du Brésil. I. Polyporacées stipités". Brotéria Série Botânica (in French) 18: 121–43.
- ↑ Yap HY, Chooi YH, Firdaus-Raih M, Fung SY, Ng ST, Tan CS, Tan NH. (2014). "The genome of the Tiger Milk mushroom, Lignosus rhinocerotis, provides insights into the genetic basis of its medicinal properties". BMC Genomics: 635. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-635. PMC 4129116. PMID 25073817.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tam CS, Ng S-T, Tan J. (2013). "Two new species of Lignosus (Polyporaceae) from Malaysia — L. tigris and L. cameronensis". Mycotaxon 123: 193–204. doi:10.5248/123.193.
- ↑ Douanla-Meli C, Langer E. (2003). "A new species of Lignosus (Polyporaceae) from Cameroon". Mycologia 86: 389–94.
- ↑ Cui BK, Tang LP, Dai YC. (2011). "Morphological and molecular evidences of a new species of Lignosus (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from tropical China". Mycological Progress 10: 267–71. doi:10.1007/s11557-010-0697-y.