Journal of Fungi Article Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Wood-Inhabiting Fungal Genus Hyphoderma with Descriptions of Three New Species from East Asia Qian-Xin Guan 1,2 and Chang-Lin Zhao 1,2,* 1 Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China;
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[email protected] Abstract: Three new wood-inhabiting fungi, Hyphoderma crystallinum, H. membranaceum, and H. mi- croporoides spp. nov., are proposed based on a combination of morphological features and molecular evidence. Hyphoderma crystallinum is characterized by the resupinate basidiomata with smooth hymenial surface scattering scattered nubby crystals, a monomitic hyphal system with clamped generative hyphae, and numerous encrusted cystidia present. Hyphoderma membranaceum is charac- terized by the resupinate basidiomata with tuberculate hymenial surface, presence of the moniliform cystidia, and ellipsoid to cylindrical basidiospores. Hyphoderma microporoides is characterized by the resupinate, cottony basidiomata distributing the scattered pinholes visible using hand lens on the hymenial surface, presence of halocystidia, and cylindrical to allantoid basidiospores. Sequences of ITS+nLSU rRNA gene regions of the studied samples were generated, and phylogenetic analyses Citation: Guan, Q.-X.; Zhao, C.-L. were performed with maximum likelihood, maximum parsimony, and Bayesian inference methods. Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the These phylogenetic analyses showed that three new species clustered into Hyphoderma, in which Wood-Inhabiting Fungal Genus H. crystallinum was sister to H. variolosum, H. membranaceum was retrieved as a sister species of H.