Sparassis cystidiosa sp. nov. from Thailand is described using morphological and molecular data

Authors

Dennis E. Desjardin, San Francisco State University
Zheng Wang, Clark University
Manfred Binder, Clark University
David S. Hibbett, Clark UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Sparassis cystidiosa, collected recently from a primary montane cloud forest in northern Thailand is described as new. It is distinct from all others species in the genus because of the presence of hymenial cystidia, relatively large basidiospores and flabellae composed of six distinct layers of tissue. Analyses of a combined dataset of DNA sequences from three genes support its distinction and suggest that the S. cystidiosa lineage is the sister group of all other Sparassis.

Publication Title

Mycologia

Publication Date

2004

Volume

96

Issue

5

First Page

1010

Last Page

1014

ISSN

0027-5514

DOI

10.1080/15572536.2005.11832901

Keywords

Bayesian phylogenetics, brown rot, Homobasidiomycetes, Polyporoid clade, rDNA, rpb2

Repository Citation

Desjardin, Dennis E.; Wang, Zheng; Binder, Manfred; and Hibbett, David S., "Sparassis cystidiosa sp. nov. from Thailand is described using morphological and molecular data" (2004). Biology. 281.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_biology/281