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Issue: Vol. 260 No. 1: 9 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-09
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.260.1.4
Page range: 36–46
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 1

Correct names of two cultivated mushrooms from the genus Pleurotus in China

Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China Center of Excellence in Fungal Research and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University 333 Moo1, Tasud, Muang, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Center of Excellence in Fungal Research and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University 333 Moo1, Tasud, Muang, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand
State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu Sabah, Malaysia
King Saud University, College of Science, Botany and Microbiology Department, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 1145, Saudi Arabia
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China Center of Excellence in Fungal Research and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University 333 Moo1, Tasud, Muang, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand
State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
cultivated mushrooms edible fungi phylogenetic analysis rDNA taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

Two collections of Pleurotus giganteus and one collection of Pl. tuber-regium from Mengsong in Yunnan Province, China, and commercially grown strains of Pl. giganteus and Pl. tuber-regium from Jiangxi Province, China were identified using macro and micro morphological characters. The identification was also confirmed by phylogenetic analysis using Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) universal primers. Phylogenetic analyses of ITS-1-5.8S-ITS2 rDNA sequence data of collections of Pl. giganteus from Sri Lanka (epitype), Thailand, Malaysia and Pl. tuber-regium from Australia, Cameroon, China, Ghana, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea using maximum likelihood, maximum parsimony and Bayesian inference showed that Pl. giganteus forms a strongly supported clade with Thai and Chinese Pl. giganteus, while the Chinese Pl. tuber-regium clade with Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria samples with strong support. In this paper, we clarify the identifications of the two edible cultivated mushrooms, Pl. giganteus and Pl. tuber-regium in China.