Biological Species in Pleurotus
INTERSTERILITY GROUP
ISG XII. Pleurotus abieticola Petersen and Hughes.
1997. Mycologia 89: 175-176..1997. Mycologia 89: 175-176.
Nomenclatural history: The epithet is quite recent and has not been transferred.
Typification: Holotype: RUSSIA, Terr. Primorsk, Dist. Ternei, Sichote Alin Biosphere Preserve, Meise, 8.IX.93, Tennessee tracking number 6651 (TENN 52358) (with cultures). Paratype: same location and date, Tennessee tracking number 6554 (TENN 52359). Cultures ex holotypus deposited at ATCC, DUKE, TENN.
Taxonomic history: basidiomata may be distinguished in the field by: 1) monomitic tissue structure; 2) dark tan to brown, radially fibrillose pileus; 3) thin pileus flesh; 4) delicate whitish lamellae; and 5) habit on recently killed coniferous trees.
Mating system: probably tetrapolar, but still in doubt.
Self-cross (viz. Petersen and Hughes, 1997). RUSSIA, Terr. Primorsk, Dist. Ternei, Sichote Alin Biosphere Reserve, Meise, 8.IX.93, Tennessee tracking number 6554 (TENN 52359). In the absence of discrete mating types, four SBIs are designated: 6554: 6, 12, 14, 17. A patterned self-cross is needed.
Phylogenetic placement: Petersen and Hughes (1997) furnished an ITS sequence phylogenetic reconstruction of monomitic Pleurotus taxa, in which P. abieticola was fundamentally separated from P. ostreatus, P. pulmonarius, P. populinus and P. eryngii