Typification and Characterization of Trametes multicolor (Agaricomycetes), a Perspective Species of Medicinal Mushrooms

Abstract

Nomenclature revision and enlarged taxonomical descriptions are still needed for some well-known species whose interpretation is complicated by many nomenclature or taxonomical problems. The polyporoid fungus widely known as Trametes ochracea (= Coriolus zonatus) belongs to such a problematic group. At the same time, recent data show that this species, like its sister species T. versicolor, seems to be a perspective subject for fungal biotechnology and pharmacology. This article is devoted to stabilizing the nomenclature of the species in question via lectotypification and epitypification of Boletus multicolor. It will clarify the name T. multicolor as applied to this species is nomenclaturally correct and useful, free of further problems. An expanded species description and cultural characterization of epitype materials are presented.

The Meruliaceae of Russia. II. Panus

“…Within ten records made for Betula stumps on the Karelian Isthmus clear cuttings, seven ones have contained an indication of the joint presence of Panus conchatus and Trametes multicolor. The latter species is an active producer of laccase and is characterized by high growth rate (Zmitrovich et al, 2017). Apparently, their primary delignification and moistening of wood by T. multicolor creates a niche for Panus conchatus, carrying out a deeper substrate delignification.…”

“…This paper continues a taxonomical survey on the genera of Meruliaceae (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) presented in Russian mycobiota (Zmitrovich et al, 2016), and it is devoted to an interesting genus Panus Fr., for a long time considering first within Pleurotaceae, later within Polyporaceae families, but in fact being closely related to the genera Cerrena Gray and Steccherinum Gray of merulioid phylogenetic radiation.…”