Juha Kinnunen and Tuomo Niemelä, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Botanical Museum, P.O. Box 7, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
IntroductionThe genus Ceriporiopsis Donk is an assemblage of white-rot-causing basidiomycetes with monomitic structure and clamped hyphae. Ceriporiopsis as currently understood is obviously polyphyletic, as already noted by Ryvarden (1991; Ryvarden & Gilbertson 1993). The use of molecular and other new methods has revealed that many of the species included in the genus actually belong to other genera: C. pannocincta (Boidin 1998, Koker et al. 2003), C. rivulosa (Boidin 1998, Kim et al. 2003, Koker et al. 2003, C. subvermispora (Greslebin et al. 2004), C. mucida (Rajchenberg 2003) and C. subrufa represent examples of this kind of aliens. In the future most likely still other taxa, now addressed to Ceriporiopsis, will fi nd their place elsewhere, leaving behind a small genus of brownish polypores living on hardwood. Yao et al. (1999) found that C. gilvescens, the type species of the genus, is closely related to Aurantioporus alborubescens. According to Kim et al. (2003) Ceriporiopsis resinascens var. pseudogilvescens groups together with Antrodiella americana.In this paper we summarize the knowledge of the genus from the North European point of view. Here the genus is treated sensu stricto, comprising species close to the generic type C. gilvescens. Ceriporiopsis subrufa is considered to belong elsewhere because of its strongly cyanophilous skeletal hyphae, a character alien to Ceriporiopsis.
Materials and methodsThe specimens listed are deposited in the Botanical Museum of the University of Helsinki (H), unless otherwise indicated. Herbarium abbreviations are according to Holmgren et al. (1990 Amyloid and dextrinoid reactions were tested in Melzer's reagent (IKI): 1.5 g KI (potassium iodide), 0.5 g I (crystalline iodine), 22 g chloral hydrate, aq. dest. 20 ml; IKI-means neither amyloid nor dextrinoid reaction.As a rule 30 spores were measured from each specimen selected for a closer scrutiny. Measurements were done using × 1000 magnifi cation, phase contrast and oil immersion; eyepiece scale bar showed a 1-µm-grid, and
KeyA revised key to Ceriporiopsis in Northern Europe (including C. cremea and C. albonigrescens) is presented here.