Biological Species in Pleurotus
RONALD H. PETERSEN, KAREN W. HUGHES, AND NADEZHDA PSURTSEVA
General Information
- Introduction and purpose
- Historic taxonomy
- Diagnostic characters
- Keys
- Phylogenetic reconstructions
- Enzymological identification
- Nematophagy
- Mating system
- Genetic isolation
- Definition of "species"
- Deposition of tester strains
- Literature on fruiting, edibility, etc.
- Literature Cited
Intersterility Groups
Petersen (1995) presented guidelines for establishing a reference library of tester strains of Pleurotus taxa, and Vilgalys et al (1996) supported and extended these ideas. Vilgalys et al. (1993, 1996), and Vilgalys and Sun (1994) gave numbers to various intersterility groups within the genus, with those intersterility groups generally congruent to morpho-taxonomic taxa.
- ISG I. Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacquin:Fries) P. Kummer
- ISG II. Pleurotus pulmonarius (Fries) Quélet
- ISG III. Pleurotus populinus O. Hilber and O.K. Miller in Vilgalys et al. 1993
- ISG IV. Pleurotus cornucopiae (Paulet ex Persoon) Rolland
- ISG V. Pleurotus djamor (Rumphius: Fries) Boedijn
- ISG VI. Pleurotus eryngii (De Candolle: Fries) Quélet
- ISG VII. Pleurotus cystidiosus O.K. Miller
- ISG VIII. Pleurotus levis (Berkeley and Curtis) Singer
- ISG IX. Pleurotus dryinus (Persoon) Kummer
- ISG X. Pleurotus tuber-regium (Fries) Singer
- ISG XI. Pleurotus opuntiae (Durrieu and Léveillé) Saccardo
- ISG XII. Pleurotus abieticola Petersen and Hughes
- ISG XIII. Pleurotus albidus (Berk.) Pegler
- ISG XIV. Pleurotus australis Cooke and Massee in Cooke
- ISG XV. Pleurotus purpureo-olivaceus (Stevenson) Segedin et al
- ISG XVI: [designated here]. Pleurotus calyptratus (Lindb. apud Fries) Saccardo
- Taxa requiring further study