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Fomitiporia tenuis and Fomitiporia aethiopica (Basidiomycetes, Hymenochaetales), two undescribed species from the Ethiopian highlands: taxonomy and phylogeny

     Mycothèque de l’Université catholique de Louvain (MUCL^,2, MBLA), Croix du Sud 3, B-1348 Louvainla-Neuve, Belgium

Adane Bitew

     School of Medical Laboratory Technology, University of Addis Ababa, P.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Gabriel Castillo

     Laboratoire d’Algologie, de Mycologie et de Systématique Expérimentale, Département de Biologie Végétale, (B22), Université de Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium

Fomitiporia tenuis sp. nov. and Fomitiporia aethiopica sp. nov. from the Ethiopian highlands are described. Both are characterized by a resupinate habit, globose, dextrinoid basidiospores, cystidioles, and respectively scarcity or absence of hymenial setae. Fomitiporia pseudopunctata and F. robusta are reported also in the same area. The preliminary phylogenetic relationships of F. tenuis, F. aethiopica and F. pseudopunctata are inferred from parsimony analysis based on partial nuclear ribosomal large subunit (nrLSU). A preliminary key to the poroid Hymenochaetales with dextrinoid basidiospores (Fomitiporia, Phellinus s.l., Pseudoinonotus) is proposed.

Key words: Africa, Fomitiporia, taxonomy, Phellinus

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