Phylogenetic overview of Aureoboletus (Boletaceae, Boletales), with descriptions of six new species from China

Ming Zhang; Tai-Hui Li; Chao-Qun Wang; Nian-Kai Zeng; Wang-Qiu Deng

doi:10.3897/mycokeys.61.47520

Phylogenetic overview of Aureoboletus (Boletaceae, Boletales), with descriptions of six new species from China

MycoKeys. 2019 Dec 17:61:111-145. doi: 10.3897/mycokeys.61.47520. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Ming Zhang¹, Tai-Hui Li¹, Chao-Qun Wang¹, Nian-Kai Zeng², Wang-Qiu Deng¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China.
² Department of Pharmacy, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 571101, China.

Abstract

In this study, species relationships of the genus Aureoboletus were studied, based on both morphological characteristics and a four-gene (nrLSU, tef1-a, rpb1 and rpb2) phylogenetic inference. Thirty-five species of the genus have been revealed worldwide, forming eight major clades in the phylogenetic tree, of which twenty-four species have been found in China, including six new species: A. glutinosus, A. griseorufescens, A. raphanaceus, A. sinobadius, A. solus, A. velutipes and a new combination A. miniatoaurantiacus (Bi & Loh) Ming Zhang, N.K. Zeng & T.H. Li proposed here. A key to 24 known Chinese species has been provided.

Keywords: Boletes; molecular phylogeny; morphology; species identification; taxonomy.

Ming Zhang, Tai-Hui Li, Chao-Qun Wang, Nian-Kai Zeng, Wang-Qiu Deng.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31700021, 31770014, 31670029), the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2013FY111500), the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (2019HB2096001006) and the GDAS’ Special Project of Science and Technology Development (2019GDASYL-0104009).