Ganoderma dianzhongense J. He, H.Y. Su & S.H. Li, 2021

He, Jun, Luo, Zong-Long, Tang, Song-Ming, Li, Yong-Jun, Li, Shu-Hong & Su, Hong-Yan, 2021, Phylogenetic analyses and morphological characters reveal two new species of Ganoderma from Yunnan province, China, MycoKeys 84, pp. 141-162 : 141

Ganoderma dianzhongense J. He, H.Y. Su & S.H. Li sp. nov.

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Diagnosis.

Ganoderma dianzhongense is characterized by its mesopodal basidiomata, oxblood red to violet brown pileus surface, melon seed kernel-shaped and broadly ellipsoid basidiospores.

Holotype.

China. Yunnan Province, Kunming City, Luquan County, on the rotten broad-leaved trees, alt. 2480 m, Shu-Hong Li, 8 Sept. 2016, L4331 (HKAS 110005).

Etymology.

The epithet ‘dianzhong’ refers to central Yunnan province in Chinese, where the holotype was collected.

Description.

Basidiomata annual, stipitate, sub-mesopodal to mesopodal or with the back sides fused, coriaceous to woody. Pileus single, suborbicular to reniform, up to 4.8-13.1 cm diam., 1.1 cm thick, weakly to strongly laccate, glossy and shiny, oxblood red (9E7) to violet brown (11F8), smooth, and covered by a thin hard crust, concentrically zonate or azonate. Margin distinct, slightly obtuse. Stipe 9.0-17.7 × 1.1-1.9 cm, central, cylindrical, strongly laccate, dark red brown (11C8) to purplish (14A8) or almost blackish red-brown (10F4), fibrous to woody. Context up to 0.4 cm thick, duplex; lower layer dark brown (8F8), fibrous, composed of coarse loose fibrils; upper layer putty (4B2); corky to woody, bearing distinct concentric growth zones, without black melanoid band. Tubes woody hard, grayish brown, up to 0.9 cm long, unstratified. Pore 4-6 per mm, round to angular, dissepiments slightly thick, entire; pore surface grey white to lead gray (2D2), turning light buff when dust (5D1).

Hyphal system trimitic. Generative hyphae 2.0-3.5 μm in diameter, colorless, thin-walled, clamp connections present; skeletal hyphae 3.0-6.0 μm in diameter, subthick-walled to solid, non-septate, arboriform with few branches, yellowish to golden-yellow; binding hyphae 1-2.5 μm in diameter, thick-walled, frequently branched, interwoven, hyaline to yellowish, scarce; all the hyphae IKI-, CB+; tissues darkening in KOH.

Pileipellis a crustohymeniderm, cells 20-45 × 5.5-7.5 μm, clavate to cylindrical, entire or rarely with one lateral protuberance, thick-walled, without granulations in the apex, golden-yellow to yellowish-brown, thick-walled, moderately amyloid at maturity.

Basidiospores (80/6/3) (9.0) 10- 11. 0 -12.0 (12.5) × (6.5) 7.0- 7. 9 -8.5 (9.0) μm, Q = (1.12) 1.25-1.55 (1.63), Qm = 1.40 ± 0.09 (including myxosporium); holotype: (40/2/1) 10.0- 10. 9 -12 × 7.0- 7. 9 -8.5 (9.0) μm,Q = (1.20) 1.25-1.52, Qm = 1.39 ± 0.08 (including myxosporium). mostly melon seed-shaped at maturity to broadly ellipsoid, usually with one end tapering and obtuse at maturity, with apical germ pore, yellowish to medium brown, IKI-, CB+, inamyloid; perisporium wrinkled, double-walled, with coarse interwall pillars. Basidia widely clavate to utriform, hyaline, with a clamp connection and four sterigmata, 11-19 × 10-13µm; basidioles pear-shaped to fusiform, 10-15 × 8-12 µm.

Habit.

Scattered, during fall, decaying wood of broad-leaved trees including Quercus sp. Currently, only known from central Yunnan province, China.

Additional specimens examined.

China. Yunnan province, Shilin County, alt. 2109m, Jun He, 28 Aug., 2019, L4969 (HKAS 112719); Songming County, alt. 2204m, Shu-Hong Li, 8 Jul., 2016, L4230 (HKAS 112716); Wuding County , alt. 2295m, Shu-Hong Li, 24 Jul., 2019, L4737 (HKAS 112717); ibid, alt. 2432m, Jun He, 26 Jul., 2019, L4759 (HKAS 112718) .

Figures

Figure 2. Ganoderma dianzhongense (HKAS 110005, holotype) A basidiomata B upper surface C cut side of pileus D pore surface E sections of pileipellis (LM) F skeletal hyphae from context (LM) G binging hyphae from tubes (LM) H generative hyphae from tubes (LM) I-J basidia and basidioles (LM) K-L basidiospores (LM) M-N basidiospores (SEM) O-P culture after incubation at 28 ° C for 8 days. Scale bars: 20 mm (O, P); 10 µm (E-L); 5 µm (M, N). Photographs Jun He.