Re-Examination of the Holotype of Ganoderma sichuanense (Ganodermataceae, Polyporales) and a Clarification of the Identity of Chinese Cultivated Lingzhi

Zhuo Du; Yi Li; Xin-Cun Wang; Ke Wang; Yi-Jian Yao

doi:10.3390/jof9030323

Re-Examination of the Holotype of Ganoderma sichuanense (Ganodermataceae, Polyporales) and a Clarification of the Identity of Chinese Cultivated Lingzhi

J Fungi (Basel). 2023 Mar 5;9(3):323. doi: 10.3390/jof9030323.

Authors

Zhuo Du¹, Yi Li², Xin-Cun Wang³, Ke Wang¹, Yi-Jian Yao¹

Affiliations

¹ Fungarium (HMAS), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
² College of Food Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, China.
³ State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.

Abstract

The widely cultivated Chinese Lingzhi is a famous fungus with significant medicinal and economic value, which has commonly been misidentified as Ganoderma lucidum for a long period of time. The scientific binomial of the fungus is always a hotly debated question that revolves around G. lingzhi and G. sichuanense. To interpret the species concept of the taxon, six specific primers for G. sichuanense and one universal primer were designed. Through directed and nested PCRs, we obtained nine ITS sequences from the holotype (HMAS 42798) of G. sichuanense. By genome sequencing, the ITS sequence of the first cultivated Lingzhi (HMAS 25103) was assembled. Based on a phylogenetic study of the genus Ganoderma, the correct name for widely cultivated Ganoderma species in China was confirmed as G. sichuanense, and G. lingzhi should be a later synonym.

Keywords: DNA sequence; Ganoderma lingzhi; Ganoderma sichuanense; Lingzhi; nomenclature; type material.

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