ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 23 January 2023

Sec. Fungal Pathogenesis

Volume 12 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2022.1116035

Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the remarkable genus Leptoporus (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) with description of a new species from Southwest China

  • Institute of Microbiology, School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

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Abstract

Leptoporus is a rare and remarkable genus, mainly occurring in coniferous forests in the Northern Hemisphere. Recent phylogenetic studies showed that Leptoporus belongs to Irpicaceae in the phlebioid clade. It is worth noting that most species in the phlebioid clade can cause white-rot decay, except for the Leptoporus species, which can cause a brown-rot decay. In this study, we performed phylogenetic and taxonomic studies of Leptoporus and related genera. Molecular phylogenetic analyses were conducted based on sequences from multiple loci including the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions, the large subunit of nuclear ribosomal RNA gene (nLSU), the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II gene (RPB1), the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II gene (RPB2), and the translation elongation factor 1-α gene (TEF1). Combined with morphological characteristics, a new species, Leptoporus submollis sp. nov., is discovered and illustrated from Southwest China.

Introduction

Irpicaceae Spirin & Zmitr. was proposed by Spirin (2003) with Irpex Fr. as type genus. The great majority of the species in Irpicaceae, even in the phlebioid clade, can cause a white rot, except for Leptoporus mollis (Pers.) Quél., which causes a brown rot (Gilbertson and Ryvarden, 1986; Chen et al., 2021). This makes Leptoporus a remarkable genus, which has attracted many mycologists’ attention.

Leptoporus Quél. was established by Quél (1886), with L. mollis as type species, which was described as causing a brown rot on dead conifers and mainly distributed in the Northern Hemisphere (North America, Europe, and Asia) (Gilbertson and Ryvarden, 1986; Ryvarden and Gilbertson, 1993; Núñez and Ryvarden, 2001; Yu et al., 2004; Volobuev, 2019). In North America, L. mollis has been reported in boreal coniferous forests (Gilbertson and Ryvarden, 1986). In Europe, this species was considered as a rare species and needs to be protected (Ryvarden and Gilbertson, 1993; Volobuev, 2019). In Asia, this species has been reported from China and Japan and was also considered as a rare species (Núñez and Ryvarden, 2001; Yu et al., 2004). Previously, Leptoporus was placed in Polyporaceae Fr. ex Corda (Yu et al., 2004; Kirk et al., 2008). Subsequently, some phylogenetic studies showed that Leptoporus was embedded in the phlebioid clade (Binder et al., 2005; Lindner and Banik, 2008; Binder et al., 2013). In recent years, Leptoporus has been proven to belong to Irpicaceae and was closely related to Ceriporia Donk (Justo et al., 2017; Chen et al., 2021). Currently, although the databases Index Fungorum (http://www.indexfungorum.org/) and MycoBank (https://www.mycobank.org/) still record some Leptoporus species, only one species, L. mollis, is accepted in recent studies (Lindner and Banik, 2008; He et al., 2019; Chen et al., 2020; Chen et al., 2021).

During investigations on the diversity of polypores in the Hengduan Mountains of Southwest China, one undescribed species of Leptoporus was discovered. To confirm the affinity of the undescribed species corresponding to Leptoporus, phylogenetic analyses of Irpicaceae were carried out based on the combined sequences datasets of ITS+nLSU and ITS+nLSU+RPB1+RPB2+TEF1.

Materials and methods

Morphological studies

The examined specimens were mostly deposited at the herbarium of the Institute of Microbiology, Beijing Forestry University, China (BJFC), and some specimens were deposited at the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (IFP). Macromorphological descriptions were based on the field notes and measurements of herbarium specimens. Special color terms followed Petersen (1996). Micromorphological data were obtained from the dried specimens and observed under a light microscope following Ji et al. (2022) and Sun et al. (2022). Sections were studied at a magnification up to ×1,000 using a Nikon Eclipse 80i microscope and phase-contrast illumination (Nikon, Tokyo, Japan). Drawings were made with the aid of a drawing tube. Microscopic features, measurements, and drawings were made from slide preparations stained with Cotton Blue and Melzer’s reagent. Spores were measured from sections cut from the tubes. To present variations in the size of basidiospores, 5% of measurements were excluded from each end of the range and extreme values are given in parentheses.

In the text, the following abbreviations were used: IKI, Melzer’s reagent; IKI–, neither amyloid nor dextrinoid; KOH, 5% potassium hydroxide; CB, Cotton Blue; CB–, acyanophilous; L, mean spore length (arithmetic average of all spores); W, mean spore width (arithmetic average of all spores); Q, variation in the L/W ratios between the specimens studied; n (a/b), number of spores (a) measured from given number (b) of specimens.

Molecular studies and phylogenetic analysis

A cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) rapid plant genome extraction kit-DN14 (Aidlab Biotechnologies Co., Ltd., Beijing, China) was used to extract total genomic DNA from dried specimens, and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed according to the manufacturer’s instructions with some modifications as described by Cui et al. (2019) and Shen et al. (2019). The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions were amplified with primer pairs ITS5 and ITS4 (White et al., 1990). The large subunit of nuclear ribosomal RNA gene (nLSU) regions were amplified with primer pairs LR0R and LR7 (http://www.biology.duke.edu/fungi/mycolab/primers.htm). RPB1 was amplified with primer pairs RPB1-Af and RPB1-Cr (Matheny et al., 2002). RPB2 was amplified with primer pairs fRPB2-f5F and bRPB2-7.1R (Matheny, 2005). Part of TEF1 was amplified with primer pairs EF1-983F and EF1-1567R (Rehner, 2001).

The PCR cycling schedule for ITS and TEF1 included an initial denaturation at 95°C for 3 min, followed by 35 cycles at 94°C for 40 s, 54°C for ITS, 55°C for TEF1 for 45 s, 72°C for 1 min, and a final extension at 72°C for 10 min. The PCR cycling schedule for nLSU included an initial denaturation at 94°C for 1 min, followed by 35 cycles at 94°C for 30 s, 51°C for 1 min, 72°C for 1.5 min, and a final extension at 72°C for 10 min. The PCR cycling schedule for RPB1 and RPB2 included an initial denaturation at 94°C for 2 min, followed by 10 cycles at 94°C for 40 s, 60°C for 40 s, and 72°C for 2 min, then followed by 37 cycles at 94°C for 45 s, 55°C–57°C for 1.5 min, 72°C for 2 min, and a final extension of 72°C for 10 min. The PCR products were purified and sequenced at Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), China, with the same primers. All newly generated sequences were deposited at GenBank (Table 1).

Table 1

SpeciesSample no.LocalityGenBank accessionsReferences
ITSnLSURPB1RPB2TEF1
Byssomerulius coriumFCUG 2701RussiaMZ636931GQ470630MZ748415OK136068MZ913668Wu et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2021
Byssomerulius coriumWu 1207-55ChinaMZ636932MZ637096Chen et al., 2021
Byssomerulius coriumFP-102382USAKP135007KP135230KP134802KP134921Floudas and Hibbett, 2015
Ceriporia bubalinomarginataDai 11327ChinaJX623953JX644045Jia et al., 2014
Ceriporia bubalinomarginataDai 12499ChinaJX623954JX644044Jia et al., 2014
Ceriporia viridansSpirin 5909FinlandKX236481KX236481Spirin et al., 2016
Ceriporia viridansMiettinen 1170NetherlandsKX752600KX752600Miettinen et al., 2016
Crystallicutis cf. serpensWu 1608-130ChinaMZ636946MZ637108Chen et al., 2021
Crystallicutis cf. serpensWu 1608-81ChinaMZ636947MZ637109MZ748435OK136094MZ913699Chen et al., 2021
Crystallicutis serpensHHB-15692USAKP135031KP135200KP134785KP134914Floudas and Hibbett, 2015
Cytidiella albidaGB-1833SpainKY948748KY948889KY948960OK136069MZ913675Justo et al., 2017; Chen et al., 2021
Cytidiella albomarginataWei 18-474ChinaMZ636948MZ637110MZ748429OK136070MZ913678Chen et al., 2021
Cytidiella albomarginataWu 0108-86ChinaMZ636949MZ637111MZ748430OK136071MZ913677Chen et al., 2021
Cytidiella albomelleaFP-102339USAMZ636950MZ637112MZ748431Chen et al., 2021
Cytidiella nitidulaT-407USAKY948747MZ637113KY948961OK136072MZ913676Justo et al., 2017; Chen et al., 2021
Efibula gracilisFD-455USAKP135027MZ637116KP134804OK136077MZ913679Floudas and Hibbett, 2015; Chen et al., 2021
Efibula intertextaWu 1707-93ChinaMZ636953MZ637117MZ748416OK136085Chen et al., 2021
Efibula intertextaWu 1707-96ChinaMZ636954MZ637118MZ748417OK136086Chen et al., 2021
Efibula matsuensisWu 1011-18ChinaMZ636956MZ637119MZ748418OK136078MZ913680Chen et al., 2021
Efibula tropicaWei 18-149ChinaMZ636967MZ637129MZ748419OK136079MZ913681Chen et al., 2021
Efibula tropicaChen 3596China (Taiwan)MZ636966MZ637128Chen et al., 2021
Efibula yunnanensisWu 880515-1ChinaMZ636977GQ470672MZ748420OK136080MZ913682Wu et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2021
Gloeoporus orientalisWei 16-485ChinaMZ636980MZ637141MZ748443OK136095MZ913709Chen et al., 2021
Gloeoporus pannocinctusL-15726USAKP135060KP135214KP134867KP134973Floudas and Hibbett, 2015
Irpex flavusWu 0705-1ChinaMZ636988MZ637149MZ748432OK136087MZ913683Chen et al., 2021
Irpex flavusWu 0705-2ChinaMZ636989MZ637150Chen et al., 2021
Irpex hydnoidesKUC 20121109-01South KoreaKJ668510KJ668362Jang et al., 2016
Irpex laceratusWHC 1372ChinaMZ636990MZ637151Chen et al., 2021
Irpex lacteusDO 421SwedenJX109852JX109852JX109882Binder et al., 2013
Irpex lacteusFD-9USAKP135026KP135224KP134806Floudas and Hibbett, 2015
,Irpex latemarginatusFP-55521-TUSAKP135024KP135202KP134805KP134915Floudas and Hibbett, 2015
Irpex latemarginatusDai 7165ChinaKY131834KY131893Wu et al., 2017
Irpex lenisWu 1608-14ChinaMZ636991MZ637152MZ748434MZ913685Chen et al., 2021
Irpex rosettiformisMeijer 3729BrazilJN649346JN649346JX109875JX109904Sjökvist et al., 2012; Binder et al., 2013
Irpex sp.Wu 910807-35ChinaMZ636994GQ470627MZ748433OK136088MZ913684Wu et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2021
Leptoporus mollisLE BIN 3849RussiaMG735341Psurtseva, 2010
Leptoporus mollisDai 21062BelarusMW377302MW377381MW337062MW337129Present study
Leptoporus mollisJV 12117USAMW377303Present study
Leptoporus mollisRLG-7163USAKY948794MZ637155KY948956OK136101MZ913693Justo et al., 2017; Chen et al., 2021
Leptoporus submollisCui 17584ChinaMW377305MW377383MW337195MW337064MW337131Present study
Leptoporus submollisCui 17514ChinaMW377304MW377382MW337194MW337063MW337130Present study
Leptoporus submollisCui 18379ChinaON468433ON468245ON468447ON468449ON468451Present study
Leptoporus submollisDai 20182ChinaON468434ON468246ON468448ON468450ON468452Present study
Meruliopsis albostramineusHHB 10729USAKP135051KP135229KP134787Floudas and Hibbett, 2015
Meruliopsis crassitunicataCHWC 1506-46ChinaLC427010LC427034Chen et al., 2020
Meruliopsis leptocystidiataWu 1708-43ChinaLC427013LC427033LC427070Chen et al., 2020
Meruliopsis parvisporaWu 1209-58ChinaLC427017LC427039LC427065Chen et al., 2020
Meruliopsis taxicolaGC 1704-60ChinaLC427028LC427050LC427063Chen et al., 2020
Phanerochaete albidaGC 1407-14ChinaMZ422788MZ637179MZ748384OK136013MZ913704Chen et al., 2021
Phanerochaete alneaFP-151125USAKP135177MZ637181MZ748385OK136014MZ913641Floudas and Hibbett, 2015; Chen et al., 2021
Phanerochaetella angustocystidiataWu 9606-39ChinaMZ637020GQ470638MZ748422OK136082MZ913687Wu et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2021
Phanerochaetella angustocystidiataWu 1109-56ChinaMZ637019MZ637227MZ748421OK136081MZ913686Chen et al., 2021
Phanerochaetella exilisHHB-6988USAKP135001KP135236KP134799KP134918Floudas and Hibbett, 2015
Phanerochaetella formosanaChen 479ChinaMZ637023GQ470650MZ748424OK136084MZ913718Wu et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2021
Phanerochaetella leptodermaChen 1362ChinaMZ637025GQ470646MZ748423OK136083MZ913689Wu et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2021
Phanerochaetella sp.HHB-11463USAKP134994KP135235KP134797KP134892Floudas and Hibbett, 2015
Phanerochaetella sp.HHB-18104New ZealandKP135003KP135254KP134798KP134917Floudas and Hibbett, 2015
Phanerochaetella xerophilaHHB-8509USAKP134996KP135259KP134800KP134919MZ913688Floudas and Hibbett, 2015; Chen et al., 2021
Raduliporus aneirinusHHB-15629USAKP135023KP135207KP134795Floudas and Hibbett, 2015
Raduliporus aneirinusWu 0409-199ChinaMZ637068MZ637267OK136096MZ913712Chen et al., 2021
Resiniporus pseudogilvescensWu 9508-54ChinaMZ637069MZ637269Chen et al., 2021
Resiniporus pseudogilvescensWu 1209-46ChinaKY688203MZ637268MZ748436OK136097MZ913713Chen et al., 2018; Chen et al., 2021
Resiniporus resinascensBRNM 710169Czech RepublicFJ496675FJ496698Tomšovský et al., 2010
Trametopsis aborigenaRobledo 1236ArgentinaKY655336KY655338Gómez-Montoya et al., 2017
Trametopsis aborigenaRobledo 1238ArgentinaKY655337KY655339Gómez-Montoya et al., 2017
Trametopsis brasiliensisMeijer 3637BrazilJN710510JN710510Miettinena et al., 2012
Trametopsis cervinaCui 18017ChinaON041041ON041057ON099414ON083780Liu et al., 2022c
Trametopsis cervinaDai 21820ChinaON041044ON041060ON099407ON099416ON083783Liu et al., 2022c
Trametopsis cervinaTJV-93-216TUSAJN165020JN164796JN164839JN164877JN164882Justo and Hibbett, 2011
Trametopsis montanaCui 18363ChinaON041038ON041054ON099403ON099411ON083777Liu et al., 2022c
Trametopsis montanaCui 18383ChinaON041039ON041055ON099404ON099412ON083778Liu et al., 2022c
Trametopsis tasmanicaCui 16606AustraliaON041048ON041064ON099409ON099419ON083787Liu et al., 2022c
Trametopsis tasmanicaCui 16607AustraliaON041049ON041065ON099410ON099420ON083788Liu et al., 2022c

A list of species, specimens, and GenBank accession number of sequences used for phylogenetic analyses in this study.

Newly generated sequences for this study are shown in bold.

Additional sequences were downloaded from GenBank (Table 1). All sequences of ITS, nLSU, RPB1, RPB2, and TEF1 were respectively aligned in MAFFT 7 (Katoh and Standley, 2013; http://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/server/) and manually adjusted in BioEdit (Hall, 1999). Alignments were spliced in Mesquite (Maddison and Maddison, 2017). The missing sequences and ambiguous nucleotides were both coded as “N.”

Most parsimonious phylogenies were inferred from the combined 2-gene dataset (ITS+nLSU) and 5-gene dataset (ITS+nLSU+RPB1+RPB2+TEF1), and their congruences were evaluated with the incongruence length difference (ILD) test (Farris et al., 1994) implemented in PAUP* 4.0b10 (Swofford, 2002) under heuristic search and 1,000 homogeneity replicates. Phylogenetic analyses followed Sun et al. (2020). In phylogenetic reconstruction, the sequences of Phanerochaete albida Sheng H. Wu and P. alnea (Fr.) P. Karst. obtained from GenBank were used as outgroups to root trees following Liu et al. (2022c). Maximum parsimony (MP) analysis was applied to the combined multiple gene datasets, and the tree construction procedure was performed in PAUP* version 4.0b10. All characters were equally weighted, and gaps were treated as missing data. Trees were inferred using the heuristic search option with TBR branch swapping and 1,000 random sequence additions. Max-trees were set to 5,000, branches of zero length were collapsed, and all parsimonious trees were saved. Clade robustness was assessed using a bootstrap (BT) analysis with 1,000 replicates (Felsenstein, 1985). Descriptive tree statistics tree length (TL), consistency index (CI), retention index (RI), rescaled consistency index (RC), and homoplasy index (HI) were calculated for each most parsimonious tree (MPT) generated. RAxmL v.7.2.8 was used to construct a maximum likelihood (ML) tree with a GTR+G+I model of site substitution including estimation of gamma-distributed rate heterogeneity and a proportion of invariant sites (Stamatakis, 2006). The branch support was evaluated with a bootstrapping method of 1,000 replicates (Hillis and Bull, 1993).

MrModeltest 2.3 (Posada and Crandall, 1998; Nylander, 2004) was used to determine the best-fit evolution model for the combined multigene dataset for Bayesian inference (BI). BI was calculated with MrBayes 3.1.2 with a general time-reversible (GTR) model of DNA substitution and a gamma distribution rate variation across sites (Ronquist and Huelsenbeck, 2003). Four Markov chains were run for two runs from random starting trees for 2.5 million generations (ITS+nLSU) and for 4 million generations (ITS+nLSU+RPB1+RPB2+TEF1), and trees were sampled every 100 generations. The first one-fourth generations were discarded as burn-in. A majority rule consensus tree of all remaining trees was calculated. Branches that received BT support for MP, ML, and Bayesian posterior probabilities (BPP) greater than or equal to 75% (MP and ML) and 0.95 (BPP) were considered as significantly supported. Trees were viewed in FigTree v1.4.4 (http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/). Sequence alignment was deposited at TreeBase (submission ID: 29921; http://www.treebase.org).

Results

Phylogeny

The combined 2-gene (ITS+nLSU) sequences dataset had an aligned length of 1,556 characters, including gaps (655 characters for ITS, 901 characters for nLSU), of which 998 characters were constant, 78 were variable and parsimony-uninformative, and 480 were parsimony-informative. MP analysis yielded 14 equally parsimonious trees (TL = 2,272, CI = 0.386, RI = 0.760, RC = 0.294, HI = 0.614). The best model for the concatenate sequence dataset estimated and applied in the BI was GTR+I+G with equal frequency of nucleotides. ML analysis resulted in a similar topology as MP and Bayesian analyses, and only the ML topology is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

The combined 5-gene (ITS+nLSU+RPB1+RPB2+TEF1) sequences dataset had an aligned length of 4,234 characters, including gaps (655 characters for ITS, 901 characters for nLSU, 1,192 characters for RPB1, 1,019 characters for RPB2, 467 characters for TEF1), of which 2,327 characters were constant, 207 were variable and parsimony-uninformative, and 1,700 were parsimony-informative. MP analysis yielded 33 equally parsimonious trees (TL = 10,223, CI = 0.332, RI = 0.665, RC = 0.221, HI = 0.668). The best model for the concatenate sequence dataset estimated and applied in the BI was GTR+I+G with equal frequency of nucleotides. ML analysis resulted in a similar topology as MP and Bayesian analyses, and only the ML topology is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2

The combined datasets of ITS+nLSU and ITS+nLSU+RPB1+RPB2+TEF1 contained sequences obtained from 74 fungal samples representing 45 taxa within the phlebioid clade (Figures 1, 2). The phylogenetic trees (Figures 1, 2) generated by MP, ML, and Bayesian analyses show that the new species Leptoporus submollis grouped with L. mollis with strong support (100% MP, 100% ML, 1.00 BPP; Figures 1, 2) within Irpicaceae.

Taxonomy

Leptoporus Quél., Enchiridion Fungorum in Europa media et praesertim in Gallia Vigentium: 175, 1886.

Type species: L. mollis (Pers.) Quél.

MycoBank: MB 17951

Basidiomata annual, effused-reflexed to pileate or resupinate, soft corky to corky or fragile. Pileal surface pale vinaceous to milky coffee, azonate, glabrous to tomentose. Pore surface flesh pink to snuff brown; pores circular to angular. Context pinkish buff to buff, corky. Tubes concolorous with pore surface, corky. Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae simple-septate, IKI–, CB–. Cystidia absent, cystidioles present. Basidiospores allantoid, cylindrical to oblong-ellipsoid, hyaline, thin-walled, smooth, IKI–, CB–. Causing a brown rot.

Specimen examined: L. mollis. BELARUS. Brestskaya Voblasts, Belavezhskaya Pushcha National Park, on stump of Picea sp., 19 October 2019, Dai 21062 (BJFC 032721). CHINA. Heilongjiang, Yichun, Fenglin Nature Reserve, on fallen trunk of Picea sp., 5 August 2000, Penttilä 13266 (IFP 014914). FINLAND. Koillissmaa, Oulanka National Park, on rotten wood of Picea sp., 17 September 1997, Dai 2674 (IFP 014915).

Leptoporus submollis B.K. Cui & Shun Liu, sp. nov. (Figures 3, 4)

Figure 3

Figure 4

MycoBank: MB 840366

Diagnosis. L. submollis is characterized by its pale vinaceous to pale reddish pileal surface when fresh, becoming grayish brown to milky coffee upon drying, flesh pink to brownish vinaceous pore surface when fresh, becoming isabelline to snuff brown when dry, circular to angular pores (4–6 per mm) and cylindrical to oblong-ellipsoid basidiospores (4–4.8 μm × 1.8–2.3 μm).

Type. CHINA. Sichuan Province, Yanyuan County, on stump of Pinus yunnanensis, elevation 3,100 m, 15 August 2019, Cui 17514 (holotype, BJFC 034373).

Etymology. “submollis” (Lat.) refers to the new species is similar to L. mollis in morphology.

Fruiting body. Basidiomata annual, effused-reflexed to pileate, solitary, soft corky, without odor or taste when fresh, corky and light in weight when dry. Pileus semicircular or irregular, projecting up to 2.5 cm, 5 cm wide, and 2 cm thick at base. Pileal surface pale vinaceous to pale reddish when fresh, becoming grayish brown to milky coffee upon drying, glabrous. Pore surface flesh pink to brownish vinaceous when fresh, becoming isabelline to snuff brown when dry; sterile margin narrow to almost lacking; pores circular to angular, 4–6 per mm; dissepiments slightly thick to thick, entire to lacerate. Context pinkish buff to buff, corky, up to 10 mm thick. Tubes concolorous with pore surface, corky, up to 6 mm long.

Hyphal structure. Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae simple-septate, IKI–, CB–; tissues unchanged in KOH.

Context. Generative hyphae hyaline, thin- to slightly thick-walled, occasionally branched, interwoven, 3.5–8.5 μm in diameter.

Tubes. Generative hyphae hyaline, thin- to slightly thick-walled, occasionally branched, 2–5 μm in diameter. Cystidia absent; fusoid cystidioles present, hyaline, thin-walled, 11–17 μm × 2–4 μm. Basidia clavate, bearing four sterigmata and a basal simple-septum, 12–20 μm × 3–5 μm; basidioles dominant, in shape similar to basidia, but smaller.

Spores. Basidiospores cylindrical to oblong-ellipsoid, hyaline, thin-walled, smooth, occasionally with 1–3 small oily inclusions, IKI–, CB–, 4–4.8 μm × 1.8–2.3 μm, L = 4.46 μm, W = 2.06 μm, Q = 2.02–2.13 (n = 90/3).

Type of rot. Brown rot.

Additional specimens examined. CHINA. Sichuan Province, Muli County, on stump of Pinus yunnanensis, elevation 3,050 m, 16 August 2019, Cui 17584 (paratype, BJFC 034443). Xizang Autonomous Region (Tibet), Linzhi, on living gymnosperm tree, elevation 3,100 m, 18 July 2019, Dai 20182 (paratype, BJFC 031853); Mangkang County, on stump of Abies sp., elevation 3,900 m, 8 September 2020, Cui 18379 (paratype, BJFC 035238).

Discussion

Decay mode is one of the most stable characteristics in Polyporales and has been used as the basis for distinguishing genera (Gilbertson and Ryvarden, 1986; Ryvarden, 1991). Among the Polyporales, nearly all of the brown-rot fungi species are clustered in the antrodia clade, which have been widely studied in recent years (Ortiz-Santana et al., 2013; Han et al., 2014; Shen et al., 2014; Song et al., 2014; Han et al., 2015; Han and Cui, 2015; Shen et al., 2015; Chen et al., 2015; Han et al., 2016; Chen and Cui, 2016; Song and Cui, 2017; Song et al., 2018; Shen et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2021a; Liu et al., 2021b; Liu et al., 2022a; Liu et al., 2022b; Liu et al., 2022d). In the phlebioid clade, most species can produce white-rot decay, with one notable exception, L. mollis, which can produce brown-rot decay (Binder et al., 2013; Chen et al., 2021). This result suggests that brown-rot fungi may have evolved more than once in Polyporales (Floudas and Hibbett, 2015).

In the present study, the phylogenetic analyses of Irpicaceae are inferred from the combined datasets of ITS+nLSU sequences (Figure 1) and ITS+nLSU+RPB1+RPB2+TEF1 sequences (Figure 2). The results show that the genera of Ceriporia and Leptoporus grouped together and formed a highly supported lineage (Figures 1, 2). Morphologically, Ceriporia spp. differs by possessing resupinate basidiomata, absence of cystidioles, and causing a white decay of wood (Chen et al., 2020; Chen et al., 2022). Therefore, Ceriporia and Leptoporus are treated as independent genera in Irpicaceae (Chen et al., 2020; Chen et al., 2021).

In our current phylogenetic analyses, L. mollis and L. submollis grouped together and formed a well-supported lineage (Figures 1, 2). Morphologically, L. mollis may be confused with L. submollis by possessing annual growth habit, soft to corky basidiomata when fresh, and monomitic hyphal system with simple-septate generative hyphae, while L. mollis differs in having larger pores (2–4 per mm), narrower contextual generative hyphae (3–4 μm), and larger basidiospores (4.7–6 μm × 1.6–2.1 μm; Yu et al., 2004). Geographically, L. mollis has been reported in Asia, Europe, and North America (Gilbertson and Ryvarden, 1986; Ryvarden and Gilbertson, 1993; Núñez and Ryvarden, 2001; Yu et al., 2004). Yu et al. (2004) reported Leptoporus in China for the first time, which is distributed in Heilongjiang Province of China. In their study, the morphological characteristics of the studied specimens fit well with L. mollis. Therefore, there are two species of Leptoporus in China, viz., L. mollis is distributed in Northeast China, while L. submollis is distributed in Southwest China. In terms of ecological habits, Leptoporus species mainly grow on fallen trunk or stump of various coniferous trees (especially on Abies sp., Picea sp., and Pinus sp.) in the alpine plateau and cold temperate zone and cause a brown decay of wood.

Nomenclature

BI, Bayesian inference; BJFC, Herbarium of the Institute of Microbiology, Beijing Forestry University; BGI, Beijing Genomics Institute; BPP, Bayesian posterior probabilities; BT, bootstrap; CB, Cotton Blue; CB–, acyanophilous; GTR+I+G, general time reversible+proportion invariant+gamma; IFP, Herbarium of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; IKI, Melzer’s reagent; IKI–, neither amyloid nor dextrinoid; ILD, incongruence length difference test; ITS, internal transcribed spacer; KOH, 5% potassium hydroxide; L, mean spore length (arithmetic average of all spores); ML, maximum likelihood; MP, maximum parsimony; MPT, most parsimonious tree; n (a/b), number of spores (a) measured from given number (b) of specimens; nLSU, large subunit of nuclear ribosomal RNA; Q, variation in the L/W ratios between the specimens studied; RPB1, DNA-directed RNA polymerase II subunit 1; RPB2, DNA-directed RNA polymerase II subunit 2; TL, tree length; W, mean spore width (arithmetic average of all spores); CI, consistency index; RI, retention index; RC, rescaled consistency index; TBR, tree-bisection-reconnection HI, homoplasy index; TEF1, translation elongation factor 1-α.

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Data availability statement

The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories. The names of the repository/repositories and accession number(s) can be found in the article/Supplementary Material.

Author contributions

B-KC designed the research. B-KC, SL, Y-FS, XJ, C-GS and T-MX prepared the samples. SL, C-GS and T-MX conducted the molecular experiments and analyzed the data. SL, Y-FS and B-KC drafted the manuscript. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.

Funding

The research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 32270010, U2003211, 31870008), the Scientific and Technological Tackling Plan for the Key Fields of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (No. 2021AB004) and Beijing Forestry University Outstanding Young Talent Cultivation Project (No. 2019JQ03016).

Acknowledgments

We express our gratitude to Ms. Yan Wang (China) is grateful for help during field collections and molecular studies. Drs. Yu-Cheng Dai (China), Jun-Zhi Qiu (China), Xiao-Lan He (China), Hai-Xia Ma (China), Yuan-Yuan Chen (China), Shi-Liang Liu (China) and Long-Fei Fan (China) for assistance during field collections.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Keywords

brown-rot fungi, Irpicaceae, macro-fungi, multi-gene phylogeny, taxonomy

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Liu S, Sun Y-F, Ji X, Song C-G, Xu T-M and Cui B-K (2023) Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the remarkable genus Leptoporus (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) with description of a new species from Southwest China. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 12:1116035. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.1116035

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Jia-Jia Chen, Jiangsu Vocational College of Agriculture and Forestry, China

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Yu-Guang Fan, Hainan Medical University, China; Nian-Kai Zeng, Hainan Medical University, China; Yulian Wei, Institute of Applied Ecology (CAS), China

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