Acta Botanica Croatica, Vol. 37 No. 1, 1978.
Original scientific paper
Notes on Phellinus rimosus Complex (Hymenochaetaceae)
František Kotlaba
; Češka
Zdenĕk Pouzar
; Češka
Abstract
In the course of the study of the species of Phellinus with large, coloured spores and complete absence of setae, from various herbaria, we reached the following conclusions:
1. Phellinus badius (Cooke) G. H. Cunningh. This name was based originally on the specimen from North America (Dr. Richardson, No. 6 — K). Some error, however, must have crept in as the fungus evidently came from the tropics. Nevertheless the specimen was the real basis for the original description made by Berkeley. As this type material cannot be identified with any of the Phellinus species known to us, we propose temporarily to restrict the name Phellinus badius to a species which is represented solely by the type material.
2. Phellinus rimosus (Berk) Pil. There is a nomenclatural as well as a taxonomic problem. Originally the name was based on three specimens of which the best one was lost and of the two remaining only one agrees with the common concept (Van Diemen’s land, coll. Lawrence, herb. Berk. No. 2 — K). It is that species with larger spores and pores growing in warm dry regions on various hosts but especially on Robinia, Pistacia and Prosopis.
3. Phellinus robiniae (Murill) A. Ames. This is a characteristic species with smaller spores and pores, distributed in North and Central America, especially common in eastern USA on Robinia preudacacia; it does not occur in Europe.
4. The group of Phellinus with large coloured spores and without setae includes several other species which we have partly studied and reached reliable results in few cases only; we shall publish the new
species elsewhere later. There are, however, still further species and we hope that they will become the subject of study by the mycologists who study exclusively or predominantly tropical material.
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158253
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Publication date:
31.12.1978.
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