Morphological and phylogenetic analyses reveal a new genus and two new species of Hymenochaetales (Basidiomycota) from southeast China.

ABSTRACT: The Hymenochaetales is an order in which most species are wood-inhabiting fungi, which has high phylogenetic complexity and morphological diversity, and comprises mostly polypores, corticioid, and hydnoid fungi, with some agaricoid and clavarioid fungi. During an investigation of wood-inhabiting fungi in Fujian Province, China, four corticioid fungal specimens assigned to Hymenochaetales were collected. Based on morphological characteristics and molecular evidence, a new genus Spongoides, and a new species, Peniophorella subalbohymenia, were proposed. The new genus was established to accommodate a single species Spongoides fissurata, characterized by its resupinate, effused, spongy basidiomata with two types cystidia, and ellipsoid basidiospores growing on living Ch

SUBMITTER: Zhang QY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12800780 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature