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International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9437

Institutional price:	$538.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2006, Volume8

109 pages

DOI: 10.1615/IntJMedMushr.v8.i2

Issue price - $138.00

New Medicinal Ganoderma Mushroom from China: G. tsugae Murrill var. jannieae var. nov. (Aphyllophoro-mycetideae)

Solomon P. Wasser
International Centre for Cryptogamic Plants and Fungi, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel; and N.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Ivan V. Zmitrovich
V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2, Popova St., St. Petersburg 197376, Russia

Marina Ya. Didukh
International Center for Cryptogamic Plants and Fungi, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel; M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2 Tereshchenkovskaya Str., Kiev, 01601, Ukraine

Vera F. Malysheva
V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute RAS, 2, Prof. Popov St., St. Petersburg 197376, Russia

ABSTRACT

A new variety of Ganoderma tsugae var. jannieae S. Wasser, Zmitr. et M. Didukh was described as new for science, revealed in natural collections from China. Certain specific features that G. tsugae var. jannieae has, differing it from type material on Ganoderma tsugae var. tsugae, was revealed. These characteristics are: (i) almost full absence of inflated skeletals in medullar tissues and poor expression (to absence) of white outer fleshy medullar tissue; (ii) more pronounced pillars and, consequently, finer spore ornamentation; (iii) slightly thicker spore wall; (iv) a consistently shorter and broader spore apex; (v) extremely poor expression of plate-like depressions of the spore surface. This material corresponds well to G. tsugae and also seems to gravitate to G. resinaceum, but sharply differs from the latter by smaller pores and thinner and softer context. The basidiome morphology and cultural characteristics of the nature material of the new variety are described and discussed.