Luteoporia albocitrina (Petch) Y. C. Dai, Xin Zhang, Vlasák, Ghobad-Nejhad & Yuan Yuan 2024

Zhang, Xin, Zhou, Hong-Min, Ghobad-Nejhad, Masoomeh, Liu, Hong-Gao, Vlasák, Josef, Dai, Yu-Cheng & Yuan, Yuan, 2024, Molecular and morphological data reveal two new polypores (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) with reddish brown to orange basidiomata from China, MycoKeys 107, pp. 75-94 : 75-94

Luteoporia albocitrina (Petch) Y. C. Dai, Xin Zhang, Vlasák, Ghobad-Nejhad & Yuan Yuan comb. nov.

Poria albocitrina Petch, Ann. R. bot. Gdns Peradeniya 7 (4): 286 (1922) (Basionym)

≡ Hapalopilus albocitrinus (Petch) Ryvarden , in Ryvarden & Johansen, Prelim. Polyp. Fl. E. Afr. (Oslo): 359 (1980)

= Luteoporia citriniporia Z. B. Liu & Yuan Yuan , Phytotaxa 46 (1): 36 (2020)

Description.

See Ryvarden and Johansen (1980) and Liu and Yuan (2020).

Ecology and distribution.

Growing on dead deciduous wood. Known from Costa Rica, Rwanda, Kenya and Sri Lanka.

Notes.

Hapalopilus albocitrinus is a tropical species originally described as Poria albocitrina from Sri Lanka ( Petch 1922), and it is characterized by resupinate, bright-colored basidiomata with a reddish coloration in KOH solution, swollen hyphae covered with crystals at the tips and cylindrical to oblong ellipsoid basidiospores ( Petch 1922; Ryvarden and Johansen 1980). Luteoporia citriniporia is not only morphologically similar to H. albocitrinus , but also have an overlapping distribution. So, we consider that Luteoporia citriniporia and H. albocitrinus represent a single species, hence the above recombination is proposed.

Specimens examined.

Aurantiporus alboaurantius : China. Fujian Province, Wuyishan County, Longfenggu Forest Park, alt. 500 m, on fallen trunk of Cunninghamia , 27 August 2006, Cui 4136 ( BJFC 000412, holotype); Longchuan Valley, alt. 500 m, on fallen trunk of Cunninghamia , 16 October 2005, Cui 2877 ( BJFC 000416, paratype). A. mutans : USA, Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre, Ricketts Glen State Park, on black cherry, 11 September 2003, JV 0309 / 83 a, b ( JV, PRM); Pike County, Promised Land State Park, on Quercus sp. , 13 September 2005, JV 0509 / 123 ( JV, PRM). A. pseudoplacentus : USA, Washington, Forks, Bogachiel State Park, on trunk of Picea sitchensis , 6 August 2003, JV 0308 / 68 ( PRM 899297, holotype; BJFC 020510, isotype). A. tropicus : Costa Rica, Puntarenas Province, Santa Elena, JV 1707 / 5 - T ( JV, PRM). Luteoporia albocitrina : Sri Lanka. Colombo, Dombagaskanola Forest Reserve, on rotten angiosperm wood, 27 February 2019, Dai 19507 ( BJFC 031186); Avissawella, Salgala Forest, on rotten angiosperm wood, 3 March 2019, Dai 19622 ( BJFC 0 31299); Costa Rica, Puntarenas Province, Tarcoles, on rotten angiosperm wood, 22 April 2017, JV 1704 / 103 ( JV).