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Systematics and Biodiversity 3 (2): 1–45 Issued ???? 2005 

DOI: 10.1017/S1477200005001623 Printed in the United Kingdom C○ The Natural History Museum 

The phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms across 

the major clades of mushroom-forming fungi 

(Homobasidiomycetes) 

Manfred Binder1 , David S. Hibbett∗,1 , Karl-Henrik Larsson2 , Ellen Larsson2 , Ewald Langer3 & Gitta Langer3 1Biology Department, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA 

2Göteborg University, Botanical Institute, Box 461, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden 

3Universität Kassel, FB 18, Naturwissenschaften, Institut für Biologie, FG Ökologie, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 

D-34123 Kassel, Germany 

submitted January 2004 

accepted September 2004 

Contents 

Abstract 1 

Introduction 2 

Material and methods 3 

Clade names 3 

Taxon sampling, molecular techniques and alignment 4 

Phylogenetic analyses 4 

Results 5 

Sequences and alignment 5 

Analyses of the core dataset 6 

Two-step heuristic analyses of the full dataset 6 

Equally weighted PR analyses of the full dataset 6 

Six-parameter weighted PR analyses of the full dataset 9 

Discussion 9 

Overall phylogenetic resolution 9 

Relationships of Homobasidiomycetes to heterobasidiomycetes 11 

Basal Homobasidiomycetes 13 

Phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms within the Homobasidiomycetes 15 

Conclusions and future directions 40 

Acknowledgements 41 

References 41 

Abstract Phylogenetic relationships of resupinate Homobasidiomycetes (Corticiaceae s. lat. and others) were studied 

using ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequences from a broad sample of resupinate and nonresupinate taxa. Two datasets were 

analysed using parsimony, a ‘core’ dataset of 142 species, each of which is represented by four rDNA regions (mitochondrial 

and nuclear large and small subunits), and a ‘full’ dataset of 656 species, most of which were represented only by nuclear 

large subunit rDNA sequences. Both datasets were analysed using traditional heuristic methods with bootstrapping, and 

the full dataset was also analysed with the Parsimony Ratchet, using equal character weights and six-parameter weighted 

parsimony. Analyses of both datasets supported monophyly of the eight major clades of Homobasidiomycetes recognised 

by Hibbett and Thorn, as well as independent lineages corresponding to the Gloeophyllum clade, corticioid clade and Jaapia 

argillacea. Analyses of the full dataset resolved two additional groups, the athelioid clade and trechisporoid clade (the latter 

may be nested in the polyporoid clade). Thus, there are at least 12 independent clades of Homobasidiomycetes. Higherlevel 

relationships among the major clades are not resolved with confidence. Nevertheless, the euagarics clade, bolete 

clade, athelioid clade and Jaapia argillacea are consistently resolved as a monophyletic group, whereas the cantharelloid 

clade, gomphoid-phalloid clade and hymenochaetoid clade are placed at the base of the Homobasidiomycetes, which 

is consistent with the preponderance of imperforate parenthesomes in those groups. Resupinate forms occur in each of the 

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major clades of Homobasidiomycetes, some of which are composed mostly or exclusively of resupinate forms (athelioid 

clade, corticioid clade, trechisporoid clade, Jaapia). The largest concentrations of resupinate forms occur in the polyporoid 

clade, russuloid clade and hymenochaetoid clade. The cantharelloid clade also includes many resupinate forms, including 

some that have traditionally been regarded as heterobasidiomycetes (Sebacinaceae, Tulasnellales, Ceratobasidiales). The 

euagarics clade, which is by far the largest clade in the Homobasidiomycetes, has the smallest fraction of resupinate 

species. Results of the present study are compared with recent phylogenetic analyses, and a table summarising the 

phylogenetic distribution of resupinate taxa is presented, as well as notes on the ecology of resupinate forms and related 

Homobasidiomycetes. 

Key words Corticiaceae, corticioid fungi, heterobasidiomycetes, Parsimony Ratchet, Polyporaceae, systematics, taxonomy, 

rDNA sequences 

Introduction 

The Homobasidiomycetes is a group of Fungi with approximately 

16 000 described species (Kirk et al., 2001), including 

such familiar forms as gilled mushrooms, polypores, coral 

fungi and gasteromycetes. In addition to these, the Homobasidiomycetes 

includes relatively simple resupinate forms that 

have flattened, crust-like fruiting bodies. Resupinate Homobasidiomycetes 

resemble each other in gross morphology, but 

they are diverse in anatomical, ecological, physiological and 

genetic attributes, and they have long been regarded as polyphyletic. 

Untangling the relationships of this assemblage has 

proven to be one of the most difficult challenges of fungal 

systematics. The purpose of this study was to use molecular 

characters to provide an overview of the phylogenetic distribution 

of resupinate forms among the Homobasidiomycetes. 

In the classical system of Fries (1821), resupinate forms 

were distributed among the Thelephoraceae, Meruliaceae, 

Hydnaceae and Polyporaceae, according to their hymenophore 

configurations. Later, with the application of anatomical characters, 

the diversity of resupinate forms and their relationships 

to non-resupinate taxa started to become apparent 

(Karsten, 1881; Patouillard, 1900). The early work in taxonomy 

of Aphyllophorales was summarised by Donk (1964) 

in his ‘Conspectus of the families of Aphyllophorales’. Donk’s 

work marked a major advance toward a phylogenetic classification 

of the non-gilled/non-gasteroid Homobasidiomycetes, 

which he divided into 21 families. In 1971, Donk admitted two 

more families to the Aphyllophorales. 

Resupinate forms occur in 12 families of the Aphyllophorales 

sensu Donk (1971). Approximately 60 genera of resupinate 

forms were included in the Corticiaceae (Donk, 1964). 

Others were distributed among the Clavariaceae (e.g. Clavulicium), 

Coniophoraceae (Coniophora), Gomphaceae (Ramaricium), 

Hericiaceae (Gloeocystidiellum), Hymenochaetaceae 

(Hymenochaete), Lachnocladiaceae (Scytinostroma), Polyporaceae 

(Poria), Punctulariaceae (Punctularia), Stereaceae (Xylobolus), 

Thelephoraceae (Tomentella) and Tulasnellaceae 

(Tulasnella). Donk considered most of these latter families to 

be more or less natural (the Polyporaceae and Clavariaceae being 

exceptions), and they have remained largely intact in recent 

classifications. Donk was clearly unsatisfied with the status of 

the Corticiaceae, however, which he described as “chaotic”, 

a “big Friesian conglomerate” and an “amorphous mass” 

(1964, p. 288; 1971, p. 5–6). The major problems in the systematics 

of resupinate Homobasidiomycetes still concern the 

relationships of the members of the Corticiaceae sensu Donk. 

Some authors (Eriksson, 1958; Talbot, 1973; Hjortstam 

et al., 1988a) have employed a broad concept of the Corticiaceae 

that is based on Donk’s circumscription of the family, 

while acknowledging that the group is unnatural. Parmasto 

(1986) adopted a narrower concept of the Corticiaceae than 

did Donk, and divided the group into 11 subfamilies. A radical 

approach to the taxonomy of resupinate forms, and basidiomycetes 

in general, was proposed by Jülich (1981), who 

distributed the genera of Corticiaceae sensu Donk among approximately 

35 families in 16 orders. Jülich’s classification was 

largely adopted by Ginns & Lefebvre (1993) in their compilation 

of lignicolous corticioid fungi of North America. Other 

major taxonomic treatments of resupinate Homobasidiomycetes 

include those of Jülich & Stalpers (1980), Hjortstam 

(1987), Hjortstam & K.-H. Larsson (1995), Hansen & Knudsen 

(1997), Hallenberg (1985) and Gilbertson & Ryvarden (1986, 

1987, poroid forms). 

The first major phylogenetic study of resupinate forms 

was that of Parmasto (1995), who used 86 morphological characters 

to study relationships of 156 genera, representing 1225 

species of corticioid fungi. The strict consensus tree produced 

in that study was poorly resolved, indicating that morphology 

alone is not useful for estimating phylogenetic relationships in 

resupinate Homobasidiomycetes. A few resupinate forms started 

to appear in molecular phylogenetic studies in the 1990s, 

but the sampling was sparse (Gargas et al., 1995a; Hibbett & 

Donoghue, 1995; Nakasone, 1996; Hibbett et al., 1997; Bruns 

et al., 1998; Pine et al., 1999; Hallenberg & Parmasto, 1998). 

The first molecular study with a significant emphasis on resupinate 

forms was that of Boidin et al. (1998), who analysed 

nuclear ribosomal DNA (nuc rDNA) internal transcribed 

spacer (ITS) sequences in 360 species of Aphyllophorales and 

other basidiomycetes. The results of Boidin et al. should be 

viewed with caution because the ITS region is too divergent 

to be aligned across distantly related clades, and their analysis 

included no measures of branch support. Nevertheless, many 

of the terminal groupings in their trees are consistent with certain 

anatomical characters and have been supported in other 

studies (e.g. the Hericiales). 

Hibbett & Thorn (2001) presented a “preliminary phylogenetic 

outline” of the Homobasidiomycetes that summarised

the results of diverse molecular phylogenetic studies. This 

“outline” divided the Homobasidiomycetes into eight major 

clades, which were given informal names (polyporoid clade, 

euagarics clade, etc.). Hibbett & Thorn indicated that resupinate 

forms occur in all of the major clades, but also noted 

that these forms had been undersampled in earlier studies. 

Recently, there have been several large phylogenetic studies 

focusing on the broad phylogenetic distribution of resupinate 

forms, including works by Hibbett & Binder (2002), E. Langer 

(2002), K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) and Lim (2001; also Kim & 

Jung, 2000). There have also been several other studies with 

large numbers of resupinate forms that have focused on more 

restricted clades, including the russuloid clade (E. Larsson & 

K.-H. Larsson, 2003), hymenochaetoid clade (Wagner & 

Fischer, 2001, 2002a) and thelephoroid clade (Kõljalg et al., 

2000, 2001, 2002). 

The present study represents a continuation of the research 

reported by Hibbett & Binder (2002), who studied relationships 

among 481 species of Homobasidiomycetes, including 

144 resupinate forms. The ataset of Hibbett & Binder 

(2002) included overlapping sets of sequences from nuclear 

and mitochondrial (nuc, mt) large and small subunit (lsu, ssu) 

rDNA regions, with a total aligned length of 3800 bp. One 

hundred and seventeen species in the dataset had all four regions, 

78 species had three regions and 12 had two regions. 

All taxa were represented by the nuc-lsu rDNA, and 274 taxa 

had only this region. One hundred and seventy-four nuc-lsu 

rDNA sequences in Hibbett & Binder’s (2002) study were 

published by E. Langer (2002) or Moncalvo et al. (2000). The 

intention of Hibbett & Binder’s (2002) sampling regime was to 

allow the taxa with three or four regions to provide a backbone 

for the higher-level relationships (i.e. the major clades sensu 

Hibbett & Thorn, 2001), while using the taxa with only nuc-lsu 

rDNA to provide taxonomic breadth. 

The eight major clades proposed by Hibbett & Thorn 

(2001) were recovered in the study of Hibbett & Binder 

(2002), although bootstrap support for these clades was generally 

weak (Hibbett, in press). Resupinate forms occurred in 

each clade, with the major concentrations in the polyporoid, 

russuloid and hymenochaetoid clades. Several additional small 

groups were also resolved: (1) a group of five resupinate species 

including Vuilleminia comedens and Dendrocorticium roseocarneum, 

which was labelled the “dendrocorticioid clade”; 

(2) a group of five species including Sistotremastrum niveocremeum 

(as Paullicorticium niveocremeum) and Subulicystidium 

longisporum, which was labelled the “Paullicorticium clade”; 

(3) a group of three pileate species, including Gloeophyllum 

sepiarium, Neolentinus lepideus and Heliocybe sulcata,which 

was labelled the “Gloeophyllum clade”; and (4) the resupinate 

species Jaapia argillacea, which was placed as the sister 

group of the bolete clade plus euagarics clade. Ancestral 

state reconstruction on several different trees using parsimony 

and maximum likelihood methods suggested that the common 

ancestor of the Homobasidiomycetes was resupinate, as suggested 

by Parmasto (1986, 1995) and others (Oberwinkler, 

1985; Ryvarden, 1991). The plesiomorphic form of many of 

the major clades (polyporoid clade, russuloid clade, etc.) was 

ambiguous, however. 

Phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms of mushroom-forming fungi 3 

The studies by K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), E. Langer 

(2002) and Lim (2001) are also major contributions to the systematics 

of resupinate Homobasidiomycetes. K.-H. Larsson 

et al. (2004) analysed nuc-lsu rDNA in 178 species, E. Langer 

(2002) analysed a combined dataset of nuc-lsu rDNA and several 

morphological characters in 220 species, and Lim (2001) 

used nuc-ssu rDNA to study relationships of 73 Homobasidiomycetes, 

including 48 resupinate species. Lim (2001) also 

performed analyses of ITS sequences in several clades of 

Homobasidiomycetes that include resupinate forms. The 

phylogenetic trees presented in these studies have many similarities 

with those of Hibbett & Binder (2002), but there are 

also some discrepancies, which are discussed later. 

It is often difficult to reconcile the studies of Hibbett & 

Binder (2002), K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), E. Langer (2002) 

and Lim (2001) because they employ overlapping but nonidentical 

sampling regimes. Adding to the confusion, each of 

these studies employs different names for certain clades. For 

example, the Paullicorticium clade sensu Hibbett & Binder 

(2002) is called the trechisporoid clade by K.-H. Larsson et al. 

(2004) or the paullicorticioid and subulicystidioid clades by 

E. Langer (2002). Similarly, the Dendrocorticium clade sensu 

Hibbett & Binder is called the corticioid clade by K.-H. 

Larsson et al. (2004) or the laeticorticioid clade by Lim (2001). 

The present study draws together a large body of data 

from recent phylogenetic analyses of resupinate Homobasidiomycetes 

and adds 158 new sequences from 76 species. 

The dataset contains 656 OTUs (operational taxonomic units), 

with multiple representatives of some species. Following the 

same general strategy as Hibbett & Binder (2002), some taxa 

are represented by four rDNA regions but the majority are 

represented only by nuc-lsu rDNA sequences, including almost 

all the relevant sequences that were available in GenBank 

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/) as of June 2002. The 

occurrence of missing sequences in the dataset may be a source 

of error, and it certainly increases the computational burden. 

Even without missing data, a 656-OTU dataset would present 

an analytical challenge. This study employed the Parsimony 

Ratchet (Nixon, 1999), which has been shown to be an effective 

alternative to traditional heuristic search strategies for large 

datasets (e.g. Tehler et al., 2003). 

Material and methods 

Clade names 

There is a great deal of inconsistency in the use of clade names 

in recent phylogenetic studies of Homobasidiomycetes (Kim & 

Jung, 2000; Hibbett & Thorn, 2001; Lim, 2001; Hibbett & 

Binder, 2002; E. Langer, 2002; K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004). The 

present study adopts the terms athelioid clade, trechisporoid 

clade, corticioid clade and phlebioid clade sensu K.-H. Larsson 

et al. (2004). Contrary to K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), however, 

this study uses the term polyporoid clade in the broad sense 

of Hibbett & Thorn (2001) and Hibbett & Binder (2002). 

The restricted group that K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) called 

the polyporoid clade appears to be equivalent to a clade that 

Hibbett & Donoghue (1995) called “group 1” in a study of


polypore phylogeny. This study refers to the group 1 clade 

as the “core polyporoid clade”. Other clade names follow 

Hibbett & Thorn (2001). 

Taxon sampling, molecular techniques 

and alignment 

The full dataset includes nuc-ssu, nuc-lsu, mt-ssu and mtlsu 

rDNA sequences from 656 isolates, including eight species 

of Auriculariales and ten Dacrymycetales, which were 

included for rooting purposes. One hundred and forty-two 

isolates have sequences of all four regions and form the core 

dataset; 102 isolates have three regions; 18 isolates have two 

regions; and 394 isolates have one region. All species are 

represented by nuc-lsu rDNA sequences. Many of the sequences 

used in this study are derived from earlier studies 

in our laboratory (Hibbett, 1996; Hibbett et al., 1997, 2000; 

Hibbett & Donoghue, 2001; Binder & Hibbett, 2002; Hibbett & 

Binder, 2002). The dataset also includes 167 nuc-lsu rDNA 

sequences from Moncalvo et al. (2002), 82 nuc-lsu rDNA sequences 

from E. Langer (2002), 46 nuc-lsu rDNA sequences 

from Wagner & Fischer (2001, 2002a, b) and 19 nuc-lsu rDNA 

sequences from K.-H. Larsson (2001). Six unpublished sequences 

of Tomentella and Pseudotomentella and three unpublished 

sequences of Marchandiomyces were generously 

provided by Urmas Kõljalg and Paula DePriest, respectively. 

One hundred and fifty-eight new sequences were generated 

for this study, including 44 nuc-ssu, 57 nuc-lsu, 29 mt-ssu 

and 28 mt-lsu rDNA sequences. Collection/isolate numbers 

and GenBank sequence accession numbers for all materials 

are available as supplementary data. This has been deposited 

as hard copy in the Biological Data Collection, General 

Library, The Natural History Museum, London (Email: 

genlib@nhm.ac.uk; Website:http://www.nhm.ac.uk/library). 

An electronic version is available on the Cambridge Journals 

Online website at http://uk.cambridge.org/journals/journal 

catalogue.asp? mnemonic=sys. 

The goal of the taxon sampling scheme was to include 

representatives of as many independent clades of resupinate 

forms as possible. Two hundred and fifty-nine resupinate species 

in 111 genera were included, which includes 87 genera 

that are recognised in Hjortstam’s (1987) checklist of 218 corticioid 

genera. The potential for misidentifications is especially 

worrisome in this study because resupinate taxa are often difficult 

to identify. To provide a check for identification errors, 

12 of the resupinate species in the dataset are represented by 

multiple isolates. Nineteen isolates are only identified to the 

generic level. 

The dataset emphasises resupinate forms, so pileate and 

gasteroid forms are somewhat under-represented. For example, 

the euagarics clade contains approximately 63% of the described 

species in Homobasidiomycetes (Kirk et al., 2001) 

but is represented by only 35% of the species in the dataset. 

In contrast, the hymenochaetoid clade, russuloid clade, cantharelloid 

clade and the polyporoid clade are over-represented, 

owing to the concentrations of resupinate forms in these 

groups. 

DNA was extracted from cultured mycelium or dried 

herbarium specimens using a SDS-NaCl extraction buffer, 

with phenol-chloroform extractions and ethanol precipitations 

(Lee & Taylor, 1990). PCR reactions were performed for two 

nuclear and two mitochondrial rDNA regions using the primer 

combinations LR0R-LR5 (nuc-lsu), PNS1-NS41 and NS19b- 

NS8 (nuc-ssu), ML5-ML6 (mt-lsu) and MS1-MS2 (mt-ssu). 

The PCR products were cleaned with the GeneClean Kit I 

(Bio101, La Jolla, California). Sequencing reactions using the 

ABI Prism BigDye Terminator Cycle Sequencing Ready Reaction 

Kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) were performed 

with primers LR0R, LR22, LR3, LR3R, LR5 (nuclsu), 

PNS1, NS19bc, NS19b, NS41, NS51, NS6, NS8 (nucssu), 

ML5, ML6 (mt-lsu) and MS1, MS2 (mt-ssu) (Vilgalys & 

Hester, 1990; White et al., 1990; Hibbett, 1996; Moncalvo 

et al., 2000), and were run on an ABI 377 automated DNA 

sequencer (Applied Biosystems). Sequences were assembled 

using Sequencher 4.1 GeneCodes, Ann Arbor, MI) and were 

manually aligned in the editor of PAUP*4.0b510 (Swofford, 

2003). 

Phylogenetic analyses 

Four sets of phylogenetic analyses were performed: (1) analyses 

of the core dataset including 142 OTUs (species) with all 

four rDNA regions; (2) a two-step heuristic parsimony analysis 

of the full dataset with all 656 OTUs and all sequences; (3) a 

Parsimony Ratchet (PR) analysis of the full dataset; and (4) a 

PR analysis of the full dataset using six-parameter weighted 

parsimony. Analyses 1–3 used equally weighted parsimony. 

All analyses were performed on Macintosh G4 computers with 

477 or 500 MHz processors and 512 or 576 MB of RAM, running 

OS9. 

Analyses of the core dataset 

The goals of these analyses were to determine whether there 

is significant conflict between the nuclear and mitochondrial 

data partitions and to resolve the major groups and backbone 

phylogeny of the Homobasidiomycetes. Independent 

bootstrapped parsimony analyses were performed of the mtrDNA 

(ssu + lsu) and nuc-rDNA (ssu + lsu) partitions (100 

replicates, 1 random taxon addition sequence per replicate, 

MAXTREES = 10000, TBR branch swapping, keeping 1000 

trees per replicate). Bootstrap consensus trees were created 

and taxa with positively conflicting positions in the two data 

partitions, each supported by bootstrap values >90%, were 

deemed to exhibit significant conflict. Subsequently, the nucrDNA 

and mt-rDNA partitions were combined and a heuristic 

search was performed with 1000 random addition sequences, 

MAXTREES = 10000, TBR branch swapping, saving 

100 trees per replicate. A bootstrap analysis of the combined 

dataset was also performed (1000 replicates, 1 random 

taxon addition sequence per replicate, MAXTREES = 10000, 

TBR branch swapping, keeping all trees per replicate). 

Two-step heuristic analyses of the full dataset 

A two-step search protocol was employed. In the first step, a 

heuristic search was performed with 10 random taxon addition 

sequences (MAXTREES = 10000, TBR branch swapping,

keeping 10 trees per replicate) were performed. In the second 

step, TBR branch swapping was performed on the shortest 

trees found in the first step, keeping all trees up to the limit of 

MAXTREES. A bootstrap analysis was also performed, using 

100 replicates (MAXTREES = 1000, 1 random taxon addition 

sequence per replicate, keeping 10 trees per replicate). 

Equally weighted Parsimony Ratchet (PR) analyses 

of the full dataset 

Traditional heuristic searches are hill-climbing procedures and 

are susceptible to being trapped in local optima. To improve 

the chance of finding the global optimum, heuristic searches 

typically use many replicate searches, each beginning with a 

unique starting tree. This approach can be effective, but it is 

time consuming, especially if each search attempts to recover 

all equally most parsimonious trees. PR analysis (Nixon, 1999) 

is a strategy for finding the most parsimonious tree(s) from 

large datasets that is designed to address some of the limitations 

of traditional heuristic searches. PR analysis is incorporated 

in NONA (Goloboff, 1998) and can also be implemented 

in PAUP* using the companion program PAUPRat (Sikes & 

Lewis, 2001). The analytical settings of the PR in PAUPRat and 

NONA differ slightly. This study used PAUPRat and PAUP* 

to perform PR analyses. 

A PR analysis begins like a traditional heuristic search, 

with a single starting tree that is rearranged by branch swapping. 

Initially, all characters are subject to a uniform weighting 

regime. Periodically, a randomly selected subset of characters 

are reweighted (from two-fold to five-fold in PAUPRat), and 

branch swapping proceeds under this perturbed weighting regime 

(starting with the best tree obtained with the original 

weights). Following a period of branch swapping under the 

perturbed weights, the characters are returned to the original 

weights, which completes one iteration. The next iteration proceeds 

using the best tree found under the perturbed weights, 

which may be shorter, longer or equal in length to the best tree 

obtained before the data were reweighted. 

The branch swapping routines that are performed under 

the original and perturbed character weights in each iteration 

are each susceptible to being trapped in local optima 

(tree ‘islands’), just like standard heuristic analyses. The critical 

feature of PR analysis is that by periodically perturbing 

the character weights, the parsimony surface of treespace is 

distorted, which may make it possible (one hopes) to move 

away from a topology that was a local optimum under the 

original weighting regime. In this way, a PR search wanders 

through treespace, occasionally crossing ‘valleys’ that a traditional 

heuristic search cannot overcome. PR analyses are 

faster than traditional heuristic searches because they do not 

require that multiple starting trees be obtained by taxon addition 

(or another method) and subsequently refined through 

branch swapping. In addition, PR analysis does not attempt to 

find and swap through all the trees in any given island. 

PR analyses of the full dataset were performed in batch 

mode using PAUP* and PAUPRat. Three sets of PR analyses 

were performed: (1) 20 runs with 200 iterations each 

(20 × 200) and 15% of the characters randomly reweighted in 


each iteration; (2) 20 × 200 iterations with 5% perturbation; 

and (3) 20 × 200 iterations with 25% perturbation. 

Six-parameter weighted PR analyses of the full dataset 

A set of PR analyses was performed under a six-parameter 

weighting regime (Stanger-Hall & Cunningham, 1998), which 

obtains weights for parsimony analyses based on rates of 

nucleotide substitutions estimated with maximum likelihood. 

Nucleotide transformation rates were estimated in PAUP* 

under a general time-reversible model, with equal rates of evolution 

for all sites and empirical base frequencies, using a tree 

and data matrix from Binder & Hibbett (2002) that includes 

93 species, each with nuc-ssu, nuc-lsu, mt-ssu and mt-lsu 

rDNA. Rate matrices were converted to step-matrices for parsimony 

analysis using an Excel spreadsheet provided by Clifford 

Cunningham (http://www.biology.duke.edu/cunningham/), 

which takes the natural logarithm of the rates and converts 

them to proportions. Rates and weights for nuc-rDNA and 

mt-rDNA were estimated separately. For nuc-rDNA, the 

step-matrix values were A-C = 3, A-G = 2, A-T = 2, C-G = 2, 

C-T = 1, G-T = 3; for mt-rDNA, the step-matrix values were 

A-C = 2, A-G = 1, A-T = 2, C-G = 3, C-T = 1, G-T = 2. 

Six-parameter weighted PR analyses were performed with 

PAUP* and PAUPRat, with ten batches of 200 iterations each, 

with 15% of the characters reweighted in each iteration. 

Results 

Sequences and alignment 

The nuc-ssu sequence of Piriformospora indica contained a 

345 bp group I intron at position 1509 (Gargas et al., 1995b) 

that was removed prior to alignment. Nuc-ssu rDNA sequences 

of Lentinellus spp., Artomyces (Clavicorona) pyxidata and 

Panellus stypticus have also been shown to contain group I 

introns, but at a different position (Hibbett, 1996); sequences 

of these taxa in this dataset have had the intron sequences removed. 

Excluding the P. indica sequence, the nuc-ssu rDNA 

sequences ranged from 1059 bp (an incomplete sequence) in 

Coniophora puteana to 1790 bp in Physalacria inflata. The 

nuc-lsu rDNA sequences ranged from 870 bp in Albatrellus 

ovinus to 972 bp in Scytinostroma renisporum. The nuc-lsu 

rDNA of Antrodia xantha had a 65 bp insertion at position 

830, which was also removed prior to alignment. No other 

major insertions or deletions were observed in the nuc-rDNA. 

The mt-ssu rDNA sequences ranged from 418 bp in Cylindrobasidium 

laeve to 613 bp in Hydnochaete olivacea. The mt-ssu 

rDNA sequences were divided into three blocks (blocks 3, 5, 

7) to exclude hypervariable regions (Bruns & Szaro, 1992; 

Hibbett & Donoghue, 1995). The mt-lsu rDNA sequences 

ranged from 376 bp in Dacryobolus sudans to 680 bp in 

Repetobasidium mirificium.The5 ′ end of the mt-lsu fragment 

is highly variable and was trimmed prior to alignment. The total 

aligned length of all four regions is 3807 bp, distributed as follows: 

nuc-ssu = 1859 bp, nuc-lsu = 1103 bp, mt-ssu = 485 bp 

(block 3 = 137 bp, block 5 = 262 bp, block 7 = 86 bp), and mtlsu 

= 360 bp. One hundred and three positions were considered


Perturbation level 5% 25% 15% 15% 

Weighting regime ∗ EP EP EP WP 

Runs × iterations 20 × 200 20 × 200 20 × 200 10 × 200 

Best tree overall 29821 29820 29819 50092 

No. times found 8 1 25 2 

In n runs (run nos.) 1 (3 a ) 1(17 a ) 3(2 a ,3,13) 2(1,6 a ) 

Runtime in h 270 396 322 2259 

Trees < 29838 found in 17 h, 6 min 29 min 1 h, 8 min n/a 

Best tree found in 38 h, 21 min 325 h, 45 min 28 h, 11 min 197 h, 39 min 

CI 0.149 0.149 0.149 0.146 

RI 0.610 0.611 0.611 0.621 

∗ EP = equally weighted parsimony, WP = six-parameter weighted parsimony; a Illustrated in Fig. 2. 

Table 1 Performance of Parsimony Ratchet analyses of the full dataset with different levels of perturbation 

ambiguously aligned and were excluded from analyses (nuclsu: 

83 positions; mt-lsu: 20 positions). The same alignment 

was used for the analyses of the core dataset (142 OTUs) and 

full dataset (656 OTUs). 

Analyses of the core dataset 

With only the 142 core species included, the nuc-rDNA partition 

had 534 variable positions and 831 parsimony-informative 

positions, and the mt-rDNA partition had 120 variable positions 

and 501 parsimony-informative positions. There were 

no positively conflicting clades in the independent bootstrap 

analyses of the nuclear and mitochondrial regions that were 

supported with bootstrap values greater than 90% in both 

partitions, so the data were combined without pruning taxa 

or sequences. The most strongly supported conflict involved 

Stephanospora caroticolor, which was supported as a member 

of the euagarics clade (nuc-rDNA, bootstrap = 72%) or 

athelioid clade (mt-rDNA, bootstrap = 87%). 

Parsimony analysis of the combined core dataset resulted 

in 97 equally most parsimonious trees (MPTs; 14 204 steps, 

CI = 0.234, RI = 0.498). The eight major clades of Homobasidiomycetes 

proposed by Hibbett & Thorn (2001), and the 

athelioid clade and the corticioid clade of K.-H. Larsson et al. 

(2004) were recovered as monophyletic groups in all MPTs, 

but the ‘backbone’ phylogeny was weakly supported (Fig. 1). 

The bolete clade, the russuloid clade, the cantharelloid clade, 

the gomphoid-phalloid clade and the thelephoroid clade received 

the highest bootstrap values (85–99%). The corticioid 

clade was moderately supported by 72%, while the hymenochaetoid 

clade (65%), the euagarics clade (59%), the athelioid 

clade (54%) and the polyporoid clade (54%) were weakly supported. 

The phlebioid clade and core polyporoid clade were 

supported at 91% and 95%, respectively. The placement of 

Gloeophyllum sepiarium (the only representative of the Gloeophyllum 

clade in this analysis) was unresolved. Jaapia argillacea 

was placed as the sister group to the bolete clade plus 

the athelioid clade and the euagarics clade (bootstrap = 62%). 

There were no representatives of the trechisporoid clade in the 

core dataset. 

Two-step heuristic analyses of the full dataset 

With all 656 OTUs included, the dataset had 2399 variable positions 

and 1732 parsimony-informative positions. The first step 

of the analysis produced 10 trees (29 864 steps, CI = 0.149, 

RI = 0.610), which were used as input trees for TBR branchswapping 

in the second step. Ten thousand shorter trees (29 838 

steps, CI = 0.148, RI = 0.611) were found in the second step 

of the analysis, which was aborted after 307 hours. Several 

of the major clades that were resolved in the core dataset 

analysis collapsed in the strict consensus of all trees, including 

the euagarics clade, the hymenochaetoid clade, the cantharelloid 

clade and the polyporoid clade. Bootstrap support 

> 50% was received for the bolete clade (93%), the gomphoidphalloid 

clade (69%), the corticioid clade (81%), the Gloeophyllum 

clade (54%), the thelephoroid clade (97%) and the 

trechisporoid clade (69%). The trechisporoid clade was nested 

within the polyporoid clade in 86% of the trees. In the other 

14% of the trees, however, it was placed as the sister group of 

the hymenochaetoid clade. The position of Jaapia argillacea 

was again resolved as the sister group to the bolete clade, the 

athelioid clade and the euagarics clade. 

Equally weighted PR analyses of the full dataset 

A series of PR analyses was performed with 5%, 15% and 25% 

of the characters perturbed (reweighted) (Table 1). PR analyses T2 

were characterised in terms of the minimum length of the trees; 

the number of minimum length trees; the number of individual 

runs that recovered minimum length trees; overall runtime; and 

the time required to find trees equal in length to the trees from 

the two-step heuristic search. In all PR analyses, the best tree(s) 

were found at relatively low frequency. The analysis with 15% 

of the characters perturbed had the best results, finding 25 

shortest trees (29 819 steps, CI = 0.149, RI = 0.611; i.e. 19 

steps shorter than the shortest trees found with the two-step 

heuristic search) that were recovered in three different runs 

(Fig. 2, Tables 1–2). In contrast, the analysis with 5% of the 

characters perturbed found eight trees of 29 821 steps in one 

run, and the analysis with 25% of the characters perturbed 

found one tree of 29 820 steps in one run. An increase in the

58 

85 

50 changes 

52 

95 


72 

52 Polyporus melanopus 

Polyporus varius 

79 * Polyporus tuberaster 

92 

Datronia mollis 

Polyporus squamosus 

* 99 

Cryptoporus volvatus 

56 

Fomes fomentarius 

Daedaleopsis confragosa 

55 

Polyporus arcularius 

Ganoderma australe 

Pycnoporus cinnabarinus 

100 

82 Physalacria inflata 

Wolfiporia cocos 

Junghuhnia subundata 

87 Lenzites betulina 

Dentocorticium sulphurellum 

Tyromyces chioneus 

Laetiporus sulphureus 

Sparassis spathulata 

core 

polyporoid 

clade 

Fomitopsis pinicola 

87 

99 Oligoporus lacteus 

Oligoporus leucomallelus 

Oligoporus balsameus 

54 

97 

65 

Oligoporus rennyi 

Amylocystis lapponica 

Auriporia aurea 

Dacryobolus sudans 

Antrodia carbonica 

100 

99 

Abortiporus biennis 

Podoscypha petalodes 

Panus rudis 

Albatrellus syringae 

Steccherinum fimbriatum 

“residual” 

polyporoid clade 

Meripilus giganteus 

“Athelia epiphylla”? 

99 

Ceriporia viridans 

100 

59 

Gloeoporus taxicola 

100 

Ceriporiopsis subvermispora 

Phlebia albomellea 

Ceriporia purpurea 

“Lindtneria trachyspora” 

Phlebiopsis gigantea 

91 

Bjerkandera adusta 

Phanerochaete chrysosporium 

54 

Phlebia radiata 

Pulcherricium caeruleum 

Candelabrochaete africana 

82 

92 

100 

100 

Asterostroma andinum 

Scytinostroma aluta 

Peniophora nuda 

Scytinostroma renisporum 

Amylostereum laevigatum 

Echinodontium tinctorium 

* 

100 

Russula compacta 

Russula exalbicans 

Clavicorona pyxidata 

Auriscalpium vulgare 

Lentinellus omphalodes 

68 

* 

96 

89 

100 

66 

Dentipellis separans 

Laxitextum bicolor 

Hericium coralloides 

Bondarzewia berkeleyi 

Bondarzewia montana 

Xenasma rimicola 

90 

100 

Heterobasidion annosum 

Albatrellus skamanius 

Polyporoletus sublividus 

72 55 

100 

98 Acanthophysium cerrusatum 

Stereum hirsutum 

Gloeocystidiellum leucoxanthum 

Dendrocorticium roseocarneum 

Laetisaria fuciformis 

Galzinia incrustans 

corticioid clade 

Gloeophyllum sepiarium 

Gloeophyllum clade 

62 

80 

55 

100 

Cyphellopsis anomala 

Lachnella villosa 

Halocyphina villosa 

Nia vibrissa 

Favolaschia intermedia 

* 

65 

98 

58 

Schizophyllum commune 

100 

Physalacria bambusae 

Physalacria maipoensis 

Gloiocephala aquatica 

Chondrostereum purpureum 

Henningsomyces candidus 

96 

Typhula phacorrhiza 

Inocybe sp. 

Stropharia rugosoannulata 

51 

* 

100 Laccaria amethystina 

Laccaria pumila 

Amanita muscaria 

Cortinarius iodes 

59 

60 

100 

63 

89 

Agaricus bisporus 

Lycoperdon sp. 

Entoloma strictius 

Pluteus sp. 

Limnoperdon incarnatum 

Pleurotus ostreatus 

Pleurotus tuberregium 

51 

90 

Humidicutis marginata 

62 

62 

99 

54 

53 

91 

96 

100 

Hygrophorus sordidus 

Athelia arachnoidea 

100 “Hyphoderma praetermissum”? athelioid clade 

Stephanospora caroticolor 

Plicaturopsis crispa 

100 

99 

Boletus satanas 

Phylloporus rhodoxanthus 

94 

Paragyrodon sphaerosporus 

100 

Calostoma cinnabarinum 

Scleroderma citrinum 

97 Chroogomphus vinicolor 

69 Gomphidius glutinosus 

100 98 Suillus cavipes 

Suillus sinuspaulianus 

Rhizopogon subcaerulescens 

Serpula himantioides 

Tapinella atrotomentosa 

Tapinella panuoides 

100 

Coniophora arida 

87 98 

Coniophora puteana 

Jaapia argillacea 

Sarcodon imbricatus 

Thelephora sp. thelephoroid clade 

Bankera fuligineo-alba 

Jaapia 

65 

100 

* 

95 

Phellinus gilvus 

86 * 

Phellinus igniarius 

Coltricia perennis 

Repetobasidium mirificium hymenochaetoid clade 

Resinicium meridionalis 

Hyphodontia alutaria 

100 

Gautieria otthii 

Gomphus floccosus 

Ramaria stricta gomphoid-phalloid clade 

Sphaerobolus stellatus 

67 

100 

85 

Sistotrema eximum 

Botryobasidium isabellinum 

Botryobasidium subcoronatum 

Ceratobasidium sp. GEL5602 

Hydnum repandum 

Cantharellus 

tubaeformis cantharelloid 

clade 

Auricularia auricula-judae 

Dacrymyces chrysospermus 

Figure 1 Phylogenetic relationships of Homobasidiomycetes based on parsimony analysis of the combined core data set with 142 species. 

One of 97 equally parsimonious trees. Bootstrap values greater than 50% are indicated above branches. Nodes marked with 

asterisks collapse in the strict consensus tree. Names of resupinate taxa are written in bold type. Species names in quotation marks 

followed by question marks indicate mislabelled isolates. 

Antrodia 

clade 

phlebioid 

clade 

russuloid clade 


bolete clade 

core euagarics clade 

euagarics clade


tree length 

29909 

29899 

29889 

29879 

29869 

29859 

29849 

29839 

29829 

29819 

29909 

29899 

29889 

29879 

29869 

29859 

29849 

29839 

29829 

29819 

29909 

29899 

29889 

29879 

29869 

29859 

29849 

29839 

29829 

29819 

50160 

50150 

50140 

50130 

50120 

50110 

50100 

50090 

A 

B 

C 

D 

5% perturbation 



15% perturbation, six-parameter weighted 

1 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 

number of iterations 

Figure 2 Performance graphs of equally weighted PR analyses with 5%, 15% and 25% perturbation levels (A–C), and one six-parameter 

weighted PR analysis with 15% perturbation (D). Each graph represents one run, with 200 iterations. Runs shown are those that 

found minimum length trees (for that perturbation level). Arrows indicate the number and the position of the shortest tree(s) found. 

The dotted line in A–C represents the length of the shortest trees (29 838 steps) obtained with the unperturbed two-step search 

approach.

Run no. Topology Iteration no. 

2a A 150 

B 151, 153 

C 152 

D 169, 170, 171 

E 162 

3 B 170, 178, 186 

D 169, 172, 173, 174, 177 

13 B 125, 126, 127 

D 69, 71, 73, 119, 120, 121 

a Illustrated in Fig. 3. 

Table 2 Distribution and topology classes of shortest trees 

recovered with the equally weighted PR analysis at 15% 

perturbation level 

number of perturbed characters was correlated with increased 

runtimes, which were 270, 322 and 396 hours, with 5%, 15% 

and 25% of the characters perturbed, respectively. 

The progress of the PR was strongly affected by the 

choice of perturbation levels (Fig. 2A-C). For example, the 

analysis with 5% of the characters perturbed (Table 1, Fig. 2A) 

advanced slowly, with long ‘plateaus’, up to 20–40 iterations 

in duration, in which no progress was made in tree lengths. 

While the 5% perturbation level yielded the most gradual progress, 

the 25% perturbation level yielded the most chaotic 

search profiles, with dramatic shifts in tree length between iterations 

(Fig. 2). The analysis with 25% perturbation found 

trees equal in length to the trees from the two-step heuristic 

search faster than the analyses with 5% and 15% perturbation 

levels (29 minutes, vs. 17 hours, 6 min. and 1 hour, 8 min., 

respectively), but never found trees as short as those recovered 

by the analysis with 15% perturbation level. The three runs 

with 15% perturbation that recovered the shortest trees found 

those trees between iterations 150–171 (run no. 2; eight trees), 

169–186 (run no. 3; eight trees), and 69–127 (run no. 13; nine 

trees; Table 2). 

In all of the shortest trees, the major clades of 

Homobasidiomycetes sensu Hibbett & Thorn (2001) and the 

athelioid, trechisporoid, corticioid and Gloeophyllum clades 

were resolved as monophyletic (Figs 3–4). Several other major 

topological features were shared by all trees (Figs 3–4): 

(1) the euagarics, bolete and athelioid clades formed a monophyletic 

group in all trees, with Jaapia argillacea as its sister 

group; (2) the trechisporoid clade (K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004) 

was nested within the polyporoid clade; (3) the cantharelloid, 

gomphoid-phalloid, and hymenochaetoid clades occupied a 

basal position; and (4) the Gloeophyllum and corticioid clades 

were sister groups (except in tree G, Fig. 3). None of these 

groupings received strong bootstrap support, however. 

The minimum-length trees can be divided into five classes 

of topologies (A-E; Fig. 3), based on the variable aspects of 

the relationships among major clades. Topologies A, C and E 

were each found only once (i.e. one tree with each of these 

topologies was found), but trees with topology B were found 


eight times and trees with topology D were found 14 times 

(Table 2). Trees with topologies B and D were found in all 

three batches that recovered minimum-length trees (Table 2). 

Six-parameter weighted PR analyses 

of the full dataset 

Two shortest trees (50 092 steps, CI = 0.146, RI = 0.621) were 

found in two different runs (Table 1). Under equally weighted 

parsimony, these trees were 29 925 and 29 929 steps long 

(i.e. 106–110 steps longer than the shortest trees obtained 

in the equally weighted PR analyses). For comparison, the 

25 shortest trees obtained in the equally-weighted PR analyses 

were 50 257–50 306 steps long under the six-parameter 

weighting regime (i.e. 165–214 steps longer than the shortest 

trees obtained in the six-parameter PR analysis). 

The six-parameter PR analysis was very time consuming. 

Ten runs with 200 iterations each required 2259 hours of 

computer time. There are several differences in higher-level 

relationships implied by the two optimal trees. The most striking 

difference is that in one topology the trechisporoid clade 

is nested in the polyporoid clade (as in all shortest trees recovered 

with equally weighted PR analysis), whereas in the 

other topology the trechisporoid clade is placed as the sister 

group of the hymenochaetoid clade (Figs 3–4). 

Discussion 

Overall phylogenetic resolution 

Bootstrap support for the major clades of Homobasidiomycetes 

was generally weak in the analysis of the full dataset. 

Missing sequences, or the presence of certain taxa whose positions 

are particularly labile (due to homoplasy), may have 

contributed to the low bootstrap values. One possible example 

of a ‘destabilising’ taxon is Stephanospora caroticolor,which 

was represented by all four rDNA regions, and was placed 

in either the euagarics clade or athelioid clade depending on 

whether the mt-rDNA or nuc-rDNA was analysed. As the number 

of taxa sampled increases, the chance of including species 

with aberrant sequences also increases. Therefore, it is not 

surprising that there is weak bootstrap support for many major 

clades in recent densely sampled phylogenetic studies of 

Homobasidiomycetes (e.g. Moncalvo et al., 2000; Hibbett & 

Binder, 2002; E. Langer, 2002; Moncalvo et al., 2002). 

PR analysis was much more effective at finding minimum-length 

trees than the two-step heuristic search strategy. 

However, the success of the PR was sensitive to the choice of 

perturbation levels, and even with the optimal 15% perturbation 

level only 3 out of 20 runs found minimum-length trees, 

and no more than nine shortest trees were found in any single 

run. In contrast, Nixon (1999, p. 413) reported that “approximately 

three out of four” PR analyses of the 500-species rbcL 

dataset of Chase et al. (1993) recovered minimum-length trees. 

Apparently, the full dataset analysed in this study presents a 

more difficult parsimony landscape than the Chase et al. dataset. 

The results of this study highlight the importance of doing 

multiple PR runs with appropriate perturbation levels and an 

adequate number of iterations per run.


euagarics 

athelioid 

bolete 

Jaapia 

argillacea 

thelephoroid 

corticioid 

Gloeophyllum 

russuloid 

polyporoid 

hymenochaetoid 

Resinicium 

meridionale 

gomphoid-phalloid 

cantharelloid 

Auriculariales 

Dacrymycetales 

euagarics 

athelioid 

bolete 

Jaapia 

argillacea 

russuloid 

thelephoroid 

corticioid 

Gloeophyllum 

polyporoid 

cantharelloid 


Resinicium 

meridionale 




euagarics 

athelioid 

bolete 

Jaapia 

argillacea 

A B C 

russuloid 

thelephoroid 

corticioid 

Gloeophyllum 

polyporoid 


Resinicium 

meridionale 


cantharelloid 



euagarics 

athelioid 

bolete 

Jaapia 

argillacea 

thelephoroid 

corticioid 

Gloeophyllum 

russuloid 

polyporoid 

cantharelloid 


Resinicium 

meridionale 




euagarics 

athelioid 

bolete 

Jaapia 

argillacea 

russuloid 

polyporoid 

thelephoroid 

corticioid 

Gloeophyllum 


Resinicium 

meridionale 


cantharelloid 



euagarics 

athelioid 

bolete 

Jaapia 

argillacea 

corticioid 

Gloeophyllum 

thelephoroid 

russuloid 

polyporoid 


* * * 

D E F 

* 

euagarics 

athelioid 

bolete 

Jaapia 

argillacea 

G H 

russuloid 

corticioid 

thelephoroid 

Gloeophyllum 

polyporoid # 


Resinicium 

meridionale 

trechisporoid 


cantharelloid 



* 

* 

Resinicium 

meridionale 


cantharelloid 



euagarics 

athelioid 

bolete 

Jaapia 

argillacea 

russuloid 

thelephoroid 

corticioid 

Gloeophyllum 

* 

polyporoid 


Resinicium 

meridionale 

cantharelloid 




Figure 3 Simplified topologies of the shortest trees recovered using PR analysis with 15% perturbation. A–E = equally weighted analyses 

running 20 × 200 iterations. A = single tree obtained in one run. B = 8 trees obtained in three runs. C = single tree obtained in one 

run. D = 14 trees obtained in three runs. E = single tree obtained in one run. F = strict consensus of 25 trees A–E. 

G–H = six-parameter weighted analyses running 10 × 200 iterations. Alternative topologies G = tree one and H = tree two obtained 

in two different runs (see Fig. 4. for details). Polyporoid* = the polyporoid clade including the ‘core’ polyporoid clade, the 

trechisporoid clade, and the phlebioid clade. Polyporoid# = the polyporoid clade without the trechisporoid clade.

Six-parameter weighting increased the runtime of PR 

analysis approximately seven-fold relative to the equally 

weighted PR analysis with 15% perturbation. The increased 

runtime may be worthwhile, because character-state weighting 

based on realistic models of molecular evolution can improve 

the accuracy of parsimony analysis (Huelsenbeck, 1995; 

Cunningham, 1997). The six-parameter trees share many features 

of the equally weighted trees, but there are also some 

differences, perhaps the most notable of which is that in one of 

the six-parameter trees (topology G, Fig. 3) the trechisporoid 

clade is the sister group of the hymenochaetoid clade. The 

position of the trechisporoid clade was also quite labile in the 

analyses of Hibbett & Binder (2002), where it was placed in 

or near the polyporoid clade, hymenochaetoid clade, russuloid 

clade or Auriculariales. 

The differences among the trees produced here and those 

obtained in earlier studies (Binder & Hibbett, 2002; Hibbett & 

Binder, 2002) indicate that there is considerable uncertainty 

about the higher-level phylogenetic relationships of Homobasidiomycetes 

(Fig. 3). Nevertheless, the trees recovered in 

PR analyses all support the monophyly of the eight major 

clades of Homobasidiomycetes sensu Hibbett & Thorn, as well 

as the corticioid clade, athelioid clade, Gloeophyllum clade and 

trechisporoid clade (which was nested within the polyporoid 

clade in most trees) (Hibbett & Thorn, 2001; K.-H. Larsson 

et al., 2004). In this regard, the results of the PR analyses of 

the full dataset are consistent with the results of the core dataset 

analysis. Other aspects of the higher-level topology shared 

by the core and full dataset analyses include the monophyly 

of the clade that contains the bolete, euagarics, and athelioid 

clades, and its sister group relationship with Jaapia argillacea, 

and the basal position of the cantharelloid, gomphoid-phalloid, 

and hymenochaetoid clades (see below). Thus, it appears that 

the species with multiple regions in the full dataset were able 

to provide a ‘backbone’ for the phylogeny, even though 60% 

of the OTUs were represented only by the nuc-lsu rDNA. 

Relationships of Homobasidiomycetes 

to heterobasidiomycetes 

This study sampled representatives of four of the five orders 

of ‘heterobasidiomycetes’ sensu Wells (1994; Wells & 

Bandoni, 2001), including the Auriculariales, Ceratobasidiales, 

Dacrymycetales and Tulasnellales but did not 

sample the Tremellales. 

Auriculariales s. str. 

PR analyses suggest that the Auriculariales s. str. (bywhich 

we mean Auriculariales excluding Sebacinaceae; see below) 

is a paraphyletic assemblage of lineages from which the 

Homobasidiomycetes have been derived (Figs 3–4). Several 

other studies have also concluded that the Auriculariales is 

closely related to the Homobasidiomycetes, whereas the Dacrymycetales 

and Tremellales have a more basal position in the 

Hymenomycetes (Swann & Taylor, 1993, 1995; Gargas et al., 

1995a; Begerowet al., 1997; E. Langer, 2002; K.-H. Larsson 

et al., 2004). Analyses by E. Langer (2002) and Weiß & 

Oberwinkler (2001) suggest that the Auriculariales s. str. 

is monophyletic, but with weak bootstrap support, while 

Hibbett & Binder (2002) recovered trees that showed the group 


to be monophyletic or paraphyletic (as in the present study). 

Thus, it remains ambiguous whether the Auriculariales s. str.is 

monophyletic or paraphyletic. Six of the eight isolates of Auriculariales 

s. str. included in this study are resupinate (Fig. 4). 

The pileate forms include Pseudohydnum gelatinosum,which 

has a hydnoid hymenophore, and Auricularia auricula-judae, 

which has a smooth hymenophore. These two species are apparently 

not closely related (as was also shown by Weiß & 

Oberwinkler, 2001), which suggests that there have been multiple 

origins of pileate fruiting bodies within the Auriculariales 

s. str. (Fig. 4). 


The Dacrymycetales is strongly supported as monophyletic 

(bootstrap = 100%, Fig. 4). Nine of the Dacrymycetales in 

this study have erect fruiting bodies that are variously coralloid, 

spathulate, pendulous, or lobate, but one species, Cerinomyces 

grandinioides, has a resupinate fruiting body. The tree in Fig. 4 

suggests that the resupinate fruiting body of C. grandinioides is 

the product of reduction, but bootstrap support for the internal 

topology of the Dacrymycetales is weak. 

Tulasnellales, Ceratobasidiales and Sebacinaceae 

The placements of Auriculariales s. str. and Dacrymycetales in 

this study are consistent with the traditional division between 

heterobasidiomycetes sensu Wells and Homobasidiomycetes 

(e.g. Stalpers, in Kirk et al., 2001). However, PR analyses place 

the Tulasnellales, Ceratobasidiales and Sebacinaceae (Auriculariales 

s. lat.) in the cantharelloid clade (Fig. 4). These taxa 

include forms with highly reduced resupinate to incrusting 

or coralloid fruiting bodies. Parenthesomes are imperforate in 

Tulasnellales (Moore, 1978; G. Langer, 1994; Wells, 1994) and 

Sebacinaceae (Khan & Kimbrough, 1980), and perforate with 

large pores in Ceratobasidiales (Müller et al., 1998; Wells & 

Bandoni, 2001). Basidial morphology is quite varied. The 

basidia of Ceratobasidiales are deeply divided by fingerlike 

sterigmata, but are not septate, whereas those of Tulasnellales 

have inflated epibasidia that develop adventitious septa, and 

those of Sebacinaceae are longitudinally septate. Spore repetition 

has been demonstrated in all three groups (Wells & 

Bandoni, 2001). Based on these characters, the Tulasnellales, 

Ceratobasidiales and Sebacinaceae have been classified as heterobasidiomycetes 

(Wells & Bandoni, 2001). 

The relationships among heterobasidiomycetes and 

Homobasidiomycetes suggested by the present study conflict 

with the findings of a recent study by Weiß & Oberwinkler 

(2001), which suggested that: (1) the Auriculariales s. lat. 

is composed of three independent clades, including Auriculariales 

s. str. (43 species), Sebacinaceae (nine species), and 

a minor clade including Ceratosebacina calospora and Exidiopsis 

gloeophora; (2) the Sebacinaceae is the sister group of all 

other Hymenomycetes; (3) the Ceratobasidiales (represented 

by Ceratobasidium pseudocornigerum) and Dacrymycetales 

are sister taxa; and (4) the Ceratobasidiales-Dacrymycetales 

clade is the sister group of the Homobasidiomycetes. These 

results were based on a 600 bp region of nuc-lsu rDNA that 

was analysed with neighbour-joining. Taylor et al. (2003) obtained 

similar results, again based on analyses of up to 600 bp 

of nuc-lsu rDNA.


100 

Cyclomyces fuscus CBS 100.106 

Cyclomyces tabacinus CBS 311.39 

Stipitochaete damaecornis DSH 98-006 

Hymenochaet e adusta TAA 95-37 

Hymenochaet e bertero i CBS 733.86 

Hymenochaet e pseudoadusta TAA 95-38 

Hymenochaet e boidini i CBS 762.91 

Hymenochaet e separabilis CBS 738.86 

Hymenochaet e rhabarbarina GEL4809 

Hymenochaet e ochromarginat a CBS 928.96 

Hymenochaet e rubiginos a TW 22.9.97 

Hymenochaet e cinnamome a LK 27.9.97 

Hymenochaet e nanospor a CBS 924.96 

Hymenochaet e fuliginos a CBS 933.96 

Hymenochaet e carpatic a TW 27.9.97 

Hymenochaet e separat a TAA 95-24 

Hymenochaet e cruenta HB 149/80 

Hymenochaet e denticulat a CBS 780.91 

Hymenochaet e pinnatifida CBS 770.91 

Hydnochaet e duporti i CBS 941.96 

Hydnochaete japonica CBS 499.76 

Hymenochaet e acanthophysat a CBS 925.96 

Hymenochaet e cervinoide a CBS 736.86 

Phellinus igniarius FPL-5599 

Phellinus lundellii TN 5760 

Phylloporia ribis FPL-10677 

Phellinus laevigatus TN 3260 

Phellinus conchatus 89-1014 

Inonotus hispidus FPL-3597 

Mensulari a hastifera 84-1023a 

Hymenochaet e corrugata FP-104124-Sp. 

Pseudochaet e tabacina LK 12.10.97 

Hydnochaet e olivacea CLA 02-003 

Fomitiporia punctata 85-74 

Onnia triquetra TW 411 Fuscoporia contigua TW 699 

Phellinus gilvus FPL-5528 

Fuscoporia torulosa Pt 4 

Fuscoporia ferruginosa 82-930 

Fuscoporia ferrea 87-8 

Coltricia montagnei 96-96 

Coltricia perennis DSH 93-198 

Phellinidiu m ferrugineofuscum TN 612 1 

Asterodon ferruginosus Dai 3186 

Phellopilus nigrolimitatus 85-823 

Tubulicrini s gracillimus HHB-13180-Sp. 

Tubulicrini s subulatus GEL5286 

Basidioradulum radula FO-23507a 

Fibricium rude GEL212 1 

Trichaptum abietinum FPL-8973 

Hyphodontia alutacea GEL2937 

Hyphodontia niemelaei GEL5068 

Schizopora radula GEL3798 

Hyphodontia serpentiformis GEL3307 

Schizopor a paradoxa GEL2511 

Hyphodontia nudiset a GEL5302 

Hyphodontia aff. breviset a GEL4214 

Hyphodontia nespor i GEL4190 

Hyphodontia crustos a GEL5360 

Hyphodontia sambuc i GEL2414 

Hyphodontia aspera GEL2135 

Repetobasidium mirificiu m FP-133558-Sp. 

Sphaerobasidium minutum GEL5373 

“H yphodontia alutaria”? GEL2071 

Resinicium bicolor FP-135104-Sp . 

Hyphodontia palmae GEL3456 

Hyphodontia cineracea GEL4875 

Hyphodontia pallidul a GEL4533 

Schizopor a flavipor a GEL3545 

Hyphodontia alutari a GEL4553 

Oxyporus populinus FO35584 

Tubulicrini s sp. GEL5046 

Subuliciu m sp. GEL4808 

Resinicium meridionale FP-150236 

Trechispor a araneosa KHL 8570 

Trechispor a sp. KHL 10715 

Trechispor a confinis KHL 11064 

Trechispor a subsphaerospor a KHL 8511 

Trechispor a incisa EH 24/98 

Trechispor a kavinioide s KGN 981002 

Trechispor a hymenocystis KHL 8795 

Trechispor a regulari s KHL 10881 

Trechispor a farinacea KHL 8451 



Hyphodontia gossypin a GEL5042 

Subulicystidiu m longisporum GEL3550 

Porpomyces mucidus KHL 8471 



Tubuliciu m vermiculare GEL5015 

Sistotremastru m niveocremeu m FO29191 

Sistotremastru m niveocremeum EL 96-97 

Sistotremastru m sp. FO36293b 

Anthurus archeri GEL5392 

Pseudocolus fusiformis DSH 96-033 

Gastrosporium simplex WÜ2768 

Hysterangium stoloniferum WÜ3706 

Geastrum saccatum DSH 96-048 

Geastrum sessile GEL5319 

Sphaerobolus stellatus DSH 96-015 

Ramaria stricta TENN HDT-5474 

Gautieria otthii REG636 

Gomphus floccosus DSH 94-002 

Ramaria formosa M-95 

Ramaria obtusissima GEL4416 

Clavariadelphus ligulus KHL 8560 

Clavariadelphus pistillaris n/a 

Lentaria micheneri RV98/147 

Ramaricium alboflavescen s DAOM 17712 

Kavini a himantia FP-101479 

Hydnum repandum DSH 97-320 

Hydnum rufescens MB18-6024/1 

Hydnum albidum MB11-6024/2 

Sistotrem a brinkmanni i GEL3134 

“S istotremastru m niveocremeum” ? FO36914 

Multiclavula mucida DSH 96-056 

Clavulina cinerea 33 

Sistotrema eximum RGT42 0 

Sistotrem a sernanderi CBS 926.70 

Botryobasidium subcoronatum GEL4673 

Botryobasidium subcoronatum GEL5397 

Botryobasidium subcoronatu m FCUG 1286 

Botryobasidium agg. vagum GEL4181 

Botryobasidium vagum GEL212 2 

Botryobasidium isabellinum GEL2108 

Botryobasidium isabellinum GEL2109 

Botryobasidium sp. GEL4968 

Botryobasidium sp. GEL5132 

Botryobasidium agg. candican s GEL2090 

Botryobasidium candican s GEL3083 

Ceratobasidium sp. GEL 5602 

Uthatobasidium sp. FO30284 

Uthatobasidium fusisporum HHB-102155-Sp. 

Thanatephorus praticola IMI-34886 

Tulasnella pruinos a DAOM 17641 

Tulasnella viole a DAOM 222001 

Tulasnella sp. GEL4461 

Tulasnella sp. GEL4745 

Piriformospora indica DSM 11827 

Serendipita vermifera CBS 572.83 

Pseudohydnum gelatinosum DSH 97-041 

Auricularia auricula-judae GJW-855-10 

Exidiopsis calcea HHB-15059-Sp. 

Exidia thuretiana GEL5242 

Heterochaet e sp. GEL4813 

Basidiodendron sp. GEL4674 

Bourdotia sp. GEL4777 

Basidiodendron caesiocinereu m GEL5361 

Calocera cornea FP-102602-Sp. 

Cerinomyces grandinioide s GEL4761 

Dacryopinax spathularia GEL5052 

Dacrymyces sp. GEL5083 

Dacrymyces stillatus GEL5264 

Dacrymyces chrysospermus FPL11353 

Ditiola radicata GEL4014 

Dacryomitra pusilla FO38346 

Femsjonia sp. FO28211 

Guepinia spathularia FO45821 

Figure 4 For Legend see facing page. 

A 

69 

69 

Auriculariales s. str. 


Hymenochaetaceae 

trechisporoid 

clade 


clade 

bootstrap 

65-79% 

80-89% 

90-100% 

50 changes 


clade 

Resinicium meridionale 

Cantharellus tubaeformis DSH 93-209 

Craterellus cornucopioides DSH 96-003 

Cantharellus cibarius n/a 

cantharelloid 

clade

To compare results of the present study with those of 

Weiß & Oberwinkler (2001), the sequences of Sebacinaceae, 

Ceratobasidium pseudocornigerum, Ceratosebacina calospora 

and other taxa were downloaded, combined with a 

subset of sequences from the present study, and subjected 

to bootstrapped parsimony analyses (Hibbett, unpublished). 

The sequences of Sebacinaceae from the study of Weiß & 

Oberwinkler (2001) and Serendipita vermifera from the 

present study were moderately strongly supported as a clade 

(bootstrap = 89%), confirming that S. vermifera is an appropriate 

‘placeholder’ for the Sebacinaceae, but Ceratobasidium 

pseudocornigerum and Ceratosebacina calospora could not 

be placed in any clade with confidence (bootstrap < 50 %, 

Hibbett, unpublished). These results suggest that the Ceratobasidiales 

as presently delimited could be polyphyletic. In addition, 

analyses of mt-lsu rDNA by Bruns et al. (1998) suggested 

that Waitea circinata, which is placed in the Ceratobasidiales 

(Tu et al., 1977; Roberts, 1999), is closely related to 

the resupinate homobasidiomycete Piloderma croceum,which 

is probably a member of the athelioid clade (see below). Conflicting 

results were obtained by DePriest and colleagues (unpublished), 

who performed analyses of ITS and partial nuclsu 

rDNA sequences that suggested that Waitea circinata is 

in the corticioid clade (see below). The placement of Waitea 

will remain unresolved until additional loci and isolates are 

examined. Nevertheless, neither of the analyses cited above 

suggest that it is closely related to the cantharelloid clade. 

The isolates of Ceratobasidium, Thanatephorus and 

Uthatobasidium included in the present study are strongly 

supported as monophyletic and are placed in the cantharelloid 

clade in the PR analyses. Bootstrap support for the cantharelloid 

clade is weak in the full dataset analyses, but in 

the core dataset analysis, Ceratobasidium sp. is nested in the 

cantharelloid clade, with moderately strong bootstrap support 

(85%, Figs 1, 4). Taking the results of previous studies into 

account, the Ceratobasidiales as a whole may be polyphyletic, 

but Ceratobasidium, Thanatephorus and Uthatobasidium appear 

to form a monophyletic group within the cantharelloid 

clade. 

Serendipita vermifera is strongly supported as the sister 

group of the root symbiont Piriformospora indica (Verma 

et al., 1998) and the Serendipita–Piriformospora clade is 

placed as the sister group of the Tulasnellales, in the cantharelloid 

clade (Fig. 4). Monophyly of the Serendipita–Piriformospora–Tulasnellales 

clade is weakly supported (Fig. 4). Nevertheless, 

these results are consistent with the results of mt-lsu 

rDNA analysis by Bruns et al. (1998), which resolved a clade 

that includes Tulasnella irregularis and “Sebacina sp.” and 

placed it as the sister group of Cantharellus with strong (98%) 


bootstrap support (also see Kristiansen et al., 2001). Weiß & 

Oberwinkler (2001) did not include Tulasnellales in their 

analyses of nuc-lsu rDNA sequences, but they cited unpublished 

analyses of nuc-ssu rDNA sequences, which apparently 

placed the Tulasnellales near the Auriculariales. In contrast, 

E. Langer (1998) found strong support (bootstrap = 95%) for 

a clade including Tulasnella eichleriana and two species of 

Botryobasidium, which is a member of the cantharelloid clade 

(see below), based on mt-ssu rDNA sequences. In addition, 

Kottke et al. (2003) and Bidartondo et al. (2003) found moderately 

strong (bootstrap = 88–89%) support for a clade including 

three species of Tulasnella, several liverwort symbionts, 

and Multiclavula mucida, which is also a member of the cantharelloid 

clade, based on nuc-lsu rDNA sequences. Comparable 

results were obtained by Hibbett & Binder (2002) and 

Hibbett & Donoghue (2001). Tulasnellales have highly divergent 

nuclear rDNA sequences (Weiß & Oberwinkler, 2001; 

Hibbett, unpublished), so it is possible that the results described 

by Weiß and Oberwinkler are due to ‘long branch attraction’. 

Basal Homobasidiomycetes 

The cantharelloid clade, gomphoid-phalloid clade and hymenochaetoid 

clade appear to be among the earliest-diverging 

groups in the Homobasidiomycetes (Figs 1, 3, 4). In addition, 

the trechisporoid clade is placed as the sister group of the 

hymenochaetoid clade in one of the topologies obtained with 

six-parameter weighted PR analysis (Figs 3, 4). Bootstrap support 

for the placements of these clades are weak (Figs 1, 4), 

but ultrastructural characters of septal pores are consistent with 

the view that they occupy basal positions. 

Imperforate parenthesomes have been found in the 

cantharelloid clade (Botryobasidium, Cantharellus, Piriformospora, 

Sebacina, Tulasnella), gomphoid-phalloid clade 

(Geastrum, Ramaria), hymenochaetoid clade (Basidioradulum, 

Coltricia, Hymenochaete, Hyphodontia, Schizopora, 

Trichaptum, etc.), and trechisporoid clade (Hyphodontia 

gossypina, Subulicystidium longisporum), as well as the 

Auriculariales and Dacrymycetales (Traquair & McKeen, 

1978; Moore, 1980; 1985; G. Langer, 1994; Verma et al., 

1998; Müller et al., 2000; Hibbett & Thorn, 2001; Wells & 

Bandoni, 2001; E. Langer, 2002; K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004). 

Most other Homobasidiomycetes have perforate parenthesomes 

(examples are known in the euagarics, polyporoid, 

bolete, thelephoroid and russuloid clades), which probably 

represent a derived condition (E. Langer, 1998; Hibbett & 

Thorn, 2001; E. Langer, 2002). However, imperforate parenthesomes 

have been reported in the polyporoid clade (Phanerochaete 

sordida) and perforate parenthesomes have been reported 

in the gomphoid-phalloid clade (Clathrus), cantharelloid 

Figure 4 Phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms among the Homobasidiomycetes, based on six-parameter weighted PR analyses of the 

full 656-OTU dataset. This phylogram represents topology G (Fig. 3); see figure for branch length scale. Ranges of bootstrap values 

obtained using equally weighted parsimony greater than 65% are indicated with shaded dots on branches (white = 65–79%; 

grey = 80–89%; black = 90–100%). Exact bootstrap values for major clades are also written along branches, where they are above 

50%. Species names are followed by strain numbers that were used to generate 25S sequences. Species names in quotation marks 

followed by question marks indicate mislabelled isolates. Names of resupinate taxa are written in bold type. Major clades of 

Homobasidiomycetes are indicated with brackets. This is part of the phylogenetic tree, including Dacrymycetales, Auriculariales and 

basal clades of Homobasidiomycetes.


A 

B 

“Athelia arachnoidea”? 

Leptoporus mollis 

“Lindtneria trachyspora?” 

Phlebia centrifuga Bip 

Ceriporia purpurea 

“Athelia epiphylla”? 

Ceriporia viridans 

Byssomerulius sp. 

Gloeoporus taxicola 

Ceriporiopsis subvermispora 

Cystidiodontia isabellina 

Phlebia albomellea 

Phlebia nitidula 

Ceraceomyces serpens Bip 

Ceraceomyces eludens 

Ceraceomyces microsporus 

Phlebia lilascens 

Hapalopilus nidulans 

Phlebiopsis gigantea 

Phlebia deflectens 

Pulcherricium caeruleum 

Phanerochaete chrysosporium Bip? 

Phanerochaete sordida 

“Sistotrema musicola”? 

Bjerkandera adusta Bip 

Phlebia acerina 

Phlebia rufa Bip 

Phlebia lindtneri 

Phlebia subochracea Bip 

Phlebia radiata Bip 

Phlebia tremellosa Bip 

Climacodon septentrionalis HHB 13438 

Climacodon septentrionalis DSH 93-187 

Mycoacia aurea 

Phlebia sp. 

Phlebia livida 

Phlebia subserialis 

Phlebia chrysocreas 

Phlebia uda 

“Peniophora sp.”? 

Scopuloides hydnoides 

Phanerochaete chrysorhiza 

Mycoacia aff. fuscoatra Bip 

Gelatoporia pannocincta Bip 

Candelabrochaete africana 

Hyphoderma nudicephalum 

Hyphoderma setigerum Bip 

Hyphoderma definitum 

Meripilus giganteus 

Physisporinus sanguinolentus 

Hypochnicium eichleri 

Hypochnicium geogenium 

Hypochnicium sp. 

Phlebia bresadolae 

Abortiporus biennis 

Podoscypha petalodes 

Hypochnicium polonense 

Phanerochaete sanguinea 

Steccherinum fimbriatum Tet 

Ceriporiopsis gilvescens 

Albatrellus syringae 

Phlebia queletii 

Panus rudis Tet 

Spongipellis pachyodon Bip 

Antrodiella romellii 

Antrodiella semisupina 

Junghuhnia nitida Tet 

Datronia mollis Tet 

Polyporus squamosus Tet 

Polyporus melanopus 

Polyporus tenuiculus 

Polyporus tuberaster Tet 

Polyporus varius 

Cryptoporus volvatus Tet 

Perenniporia medulla-panis Tet 

Fomes fomentarius Tet 

Daedaleopsis confragosa 

Ganoderma australe 

“Gloeophyllum trabeum”? Bip BR 

Ganoderma lucidum Tet 

Ganoderma applanatum 

Lentinus tigrinus Tet 

Polyporus arcularius Tet 

Grammothele fuligo 

Pycnoporus cinnabarinus Tet 

Lenzites betulina Tet 

Physalacria inflata 

Wolfiporia cocos BR 

Trametes suaveolens Tet 

Junghuhnia subundata 

Dendrodontia sp. 

Dentocorticium sulphurellum 

Diplomitoporus lindbladii Bip 

Trametes versicolor 

Sparassis brevipes BR 

Sparassis spathulata BR 

Skeletocutis amorpha 

Tyromyces chioneus 

Climacocystis sp. Tet 

Oligoporus balsameus Tet BR 

Oligoporus lacteus Bip BR 

Oligoporus leucomallelus BR 

Oligoporus rennyi BR 

Oligoporus caesius Tet BR 

Dacryobolus sudans Tet BR 

Ischnoderma benzoinum Bip 

Amylocystis lapponica Tet BR 

Auriporia aurea BR 

Phlebia griseoflavescens 

Oligoporus placentus Bip BR 

Antrodia carbonica BR 

Antrodia xantha BR 

Cyphella digitalis 

dendrotheloid sp. 

Grifola frondosa 

Pycnoporellus fulgens BR 

Laetiporus sulphureus Bip BR 

Phaeolus schweinitzii BR 

Parmastomyces transmutans Tet BR 

Fomitopsis pinicola Bip BR 

Piptoporus betulinus Bip BR 

Antrodia serialis BR 

Daedalea quercina Bip BR 

Neolentiporus maculatissimus Bip BR 

tree 1 

BR = brown rot 

Tet = tetrapolar 

Bip = bipolar 

“residual” polyp. clade 

core polyporoid clade 

Antrodia clade 

phlebioid clade 

bootstrap 

65-79% 

80-89% 

90-100% 

50 changes 


Trechispora araneosa 

Trechispora sp. 

Trechispora confinis Bip 

Trechispora subsphaerospora 

Trechispora incisa 

Trechispora kavinioides 

Trechispora hymenocystis 

Trechispora regularis 

Trechispora farinacea KHL 8451 

Trechispora farinacea KHL 8454 

Trechispora farinacea KHL8793 

Hyphodontia gossypina 




Subulicystidium longisporum 

Tubulicium vermiculare 

Sistotremastrum niveocremeum 

Sistotremastrum sp. 

Sistotremastrum niveocremeum 

Bjerkandera adusta DAOM 215869 

Hapalopilus nidulans KEW211 

Phlebiopsis gigantea FCUG 1417 

Phlebia deflectens FCUG 1568 

Pulcherricium caeruleum FPL-7658 

Phanerochaete chrysosporium FPL-5175 

Phanerochaete sordida GEL4160 

“Sistotrema musicola”? FPL-8233 

Leptoporus mollis KEW122 

“Lindtneria trachyspora” CBS 290.85 

Ceriporia purpurea DAOM 21318 

“Athelia arachnoidea”? GEL2529-1 

Phlebia centrifuga FCUG 2396 

“Athelia epiphylla”? HHB-8546-Sp. 

Ceriporia viridans FPL7440 

Byssomerulius sp. FO22261 

Gloeoporus taxicola KEW213 

Ceriporiopsis subvermispora FP90031-Sp. 

Cystidiodontia isabellina GEL4978 

Phlebia albomellea CBS 275.92 

Phlebia nitidula FCUG 2028 

Ceraceomyces serpens FP-102285-Sp. 

Ceraceomyces eludens JS22780 

Ceraceomyces microsporus KHL8473 

Phlebia lilascens FCUG 1801 

Phlebia acerina FCUG 568 

Phlebia radiata FPL6140 

Phlebia rufa FCUG 2397 

Phlebia lindtneri FCUG 2413 

Phlebia subochracea FCUG 1161 

Phlebia tremellosa FPL-4294 

Climacodon septentrionalis HHB-13438 

Climacodon septentrionalis DSH 93-187 

“Peniophora sp.”? GEL4884 

Scopuloides hydnoides GEL3139 

Mycoacia aurea GEL5339 

Phlebia sp. GEL4492 

Phlebia livida FCUG 2189 

Phlebia subserialis FCUG 1434 

Phlebia chrysocreas FPL-6080 

Phlebia uda FCUG 2452 

Phanerochaete chrysorhiza T-484 

Mycoacia aff. fuscoatra GEL5166 

Gelatoporia pannocincta FCUG 2109 

Candelabrochaete africana FP-102987-Sp. 

Phanerochaete sanguinea FO25062a 

Steccherinum fimbriatum FP-102075 

Ceriporiopsis gilvescens AH 980718 

Albatrellus syringae CBS 728.85 

Phlebia queletii FCUG 722 

Panus rudis DSH 92-139 

Spongipellis pachyodon FO22184h 

Antrodiella romellii GEL4231 

Antrodiella semisupina KEW65 

Junghuhnia nitida FO24179a 

Hypochnicium eichleri GEL3137 

Hypochnicium geogenium GEL4081 

Hypochnicium sp. GEL4741 

Phlebia bresadolae FCUG 1242 

Hyphoderma nudicephalum GEL4727 

Hyphoderma setigerum GEL4001 

Hyphoderma definitum GEL2898 

Meripilus giganteus DSH 93-193 

Physisporinus sanguinolentus GEL4449 

Abortiporus biennis KEW210 

Podoscypha petalodes DSH 98-001 

Hypochnicium polonense GEL4428 

Ischnoderma benzoinum GEL2914 

Datronia mollis DAOM 211792 

Polyporus squamosus FPL-6846 

Polyporus melanopus DAOM 212269 

Polyporus tenuiculus GEL4780 

Polyporus tuberaster DAOM 7997B 

Polyporus varius DSH 93-195 

Cryptoporus volvatus DAOM 211791 

Perenniporia medulla-panis CBS 457.48 

Fomes fomentarius DAOM 129034 

Daedaleopsis confragosa DSH 93-182 

Ganoderma australe 0705 

“Gloeophyllum trabeum”? CFMR 617-R 

Ganoderma lucidum RZ 

Ganoderma applanatum GEL4206 

Lentinus tigrinus DSH 93-181 

Polyporus arcularius VT959 

Grammothele fuligo GEL5391 

Pycnoporus cinnabarinus DAOM 72065 

Lenzites betulina DAOM 180504 

Physalacria inflata HHB-13443-Sp. 

Wolfiporia cocos FPL4198 

Trametes suaveolens DAOM 196328 

Junghuhnia subundata LR-38938 

Dendrodontia sp. GEL4767 

Dentocorticium sulphurellum FPL11801 

Diplomitoporus lindbladii KEW212 

Trametes versicolor DSH 93-197 

Sparassis brevipes ILKKA96-1044 

Sparassis spathulata zw-clarku001 

Skeletocutis amorpha KEW51 

Tyromyces chioneus KEW141 

Climacocystis sp. KEW215 

Oligoporus balsameus KEW35 

Oligoporus lacteus KEW55 

Oligoporus leucomallelus KEW29 

Oligoporus rennyi KEW 57 

Oligoporus caesius KHL 11087 

Dacryobolus sudans FP-150381 

Amylocystis lapponica HHB-13400-Sp. 

Auriporia aurea FPL-7026 

Phlebia griseoflavescens FCUG 1907 

Oligoporus placentus CFMR 698 

Antrodia carbonica DAOM 197828 

Antrodia xantha KEW43 

Cyphella digitalis T-617 

dendrotheloid sp. GEL4798 

Grifola frondosa CBS 480.63 

Pycnoporellus fulgens T-325 

Laetiporus sulphureus DSH 93-194 

Phaeolus schweinitzii DSH 93-196 

Parmastomyces transmutans L-14910-Sp. 

Fomitopsis pinicola DAOM 189134 

Piptoporus betulinus DSH 93-186 

Antrodia serialis GEL4465 

Daedalea quercina DAOM 142475 

Neolentiporus maculatissimus Rajchenberg 158 

Figure 4 Continued Polyporoid clade. Tree 1 represents topology G, in which the trechisporoid clade is the sister group of the 

hymenochaetoid clade, and tree 2 represents topology H, in which the trechisporoid clade is nested within the 

polyporoid clade (Fig. 2). Mating systems for taxa where this is known are indicated in tree 1 (Tet = tetrapolar, 

Bip = bipolar). Species that produce a brown rot are also indicated (BR). 

clade (Ceratobasidiales, Sistotrema brinkmannii), hymenochaetoid 

clade (Hyphoderma praetermissum) and trechisporoid 

clade (Trechispora subsphaerospora) (Eyme & 

tree 2 

“residual” polyp. clade 



trechisporoid clade 



Parriaud, 1970; E. Langer & Oberwinkler, 1993; G. Langer, 

1994; Keller, 1997; Wells & Bandoni, 2001). These reports, 

which should be confirmed, suggest that there has been

B 

bootstrap 

65-79% 

80-89% 

90-100% 

50 changes 

C 

97 

54 

81 

84 

79 

100 

73 

88 

100 


Asterostroma medium CBS 119.50 

Asterostroma ochroleucum HB 9/89 

“Coronicium alboglaucum”? GEL5058 

Asterostroma andinum HHB-8546-Sp. 

Scytinostroma aluta CBS 762.81 

Scytinostroma caudisporum CBS 746.86 

Scytinostroma portentosum GEL3225 

Scytinostroma ochroleucum CBS 767.86 

Peniophora nuda FPL4756 

Dichostereum durum CBS 707.81 

Dichostereum pallescens CBS 717.81 

Dichostereum effuscatum CBS 516.80 

Vararia insolita CBS 667.81 

Vararia parmastoi CBS 647.84 

Vararia sphaericospora CBS 700.81 

Scytinostroma eurasiatico-galactinum CBS 666.84 

“Amphinema byssoides”? HHB-13195-Sp. 

Scytinostroma renisporum CBS 770.86 

Amylostereum chailetii FCUG-2025 

Amylostereum laevigatum CBS 623.84 

Echinodontium tinctorium DAOM 16666 

Laurilia sulcata CBS 365.49 

Gloeocystidiellum clavuligerum JS16976 

Lactarius corrugis RV 88/61 

Lactarius volemus RV95/150 

Russula romagnesii JJ60 

Russula compacta Duke s.n. 

Russula mairei RV 89/62 

Russula virescens JSH s.n 

Russula earlei n/a 

Russula exalbicans REG MB 95-111 

Gloeocystidiellum aculeatum n/a 

Gloeocystidiellum porosum FCUG 2734 

Gloeocystidiellum sp. NH13258 

Gloeocystidiellum sp. NH12972 

Lentinellus montanus VT242 

Lentinellus omphalodes DSH 96-007 

Lentinellus vulpinus KGN 980825 

Auriscalpium vulgare DAOM 128994 

Gloiodon strigosus GEL5335I 

Aleurocystidiellum disciformis NH13003 

Aleurocystidiellum subcruentatum NH12874 

96 

Albatrellus ovinus REG Ao1 

Albatrellus subrubescens REG As1 

Albatrellus cristatus REG Ac1 

Albatrellus confluens REG Aco2 

Albatrellus fletti BG Thesis 

Albatrellus skamanius DAOM 220694 

Polyporoletus sublividus DAOM 221078 

Dendrothele candida HHB-3843-Sp. 

Xenasma rimicola FP-133272-Sp. 

Bondarzewia berkeleyi 73BO 

Bondarzewia montana DAOM 415 

Heterobasidion annosum RGT 931030/23 

“Cymatoderma caperatum”? HHB-9974-Sp. 

Dentipellis separans CBS 538.90 

Laxitextum bicolor CBS 284.73 

Creolophus cirrhatus GEL4351 

Hericium coralloides DSH 93-189 

Hericium erinaceus FO23203 

Stereum armeniacum GEL4857 

Stereum hirsutum FPL 8805 

Stereum gausapatum GEL4615 

Stereum rugosum HHB13390 

Acanthofungus rimosus Wu9601_1 

Acanthophysium bisporum T614 

Acanthophysium cerrusatum FPL-11527 

Aleurodiscus lapponicus FP100753 

Aleurodiscus laurentinus HHB11235 

Acanthophysium sp. GEL5022 

Aleurodiscus botryosus CBS 195.91 

Stereum annosum FPL-8562 

Xylobolus frustulatus FP106073 

Xylobolus subpileatus FP106735 

Acanthophysium lividocaeruleum FP100292 

Aleurodiscus abietis T330 

Gloeocystidiellum leucoxanthum CBS 454.86 

Aleurodiscus mirabilis Wu9304_105 

Aleurodiscus oakesii FP101813 

Acanthobasidium norvegicum T623 

Acanthobasidium phragmitis CBS 233.86 

Aleurodiscus weirii FP134813 

Aleurodiscus penicillatus T322 

Aleurodiscus amorphus HHB15282 

Aleurodiscus grantii T541 

Dendrocorticium polygonioides FO36469g 

Dendrocorticium roseocarneum FPL1800 

Punctularia strigoso-zonata HHB-11897-Sp. 

Vuilleminia comedens T-583 

Marchandiomyces corallinus ATCC200796 

Marchandiomyces lignicola n/a 

Marchandiomyces aurantiacus CBS 718.97 

Galzinia incrustans HHB-12952-Sp. 

Tomentella ferruginea 78 

Tomentella stuposa 21 

Tomentella coerulea 75 

Thelephora sp. DSH 96-010 

Thelephora palmata 31/38 

Thelephora vialis Thv1 

Hydnellum sp. DSH 96-008 

Sarcodon imbricatus REG Sim1 

Bankera fuligineoalba DAOM 184178 

Phellodon tomentosus BG Thesis 

Pseudotomentella mucidula 60 

Pseudotomentella nigra 16 

Pseudotomentella ochracea EL99-97 

Gloeophyllum sepiarium DAOM 13786 

Neolentinus dactyloides E5252A 

Veluticeps berkeleyi RLG-7116-Sp. 

Gloeophyllum odoratum FO23521 

Heliocybe sulcata D.797 

thelephoroid 

clade 

Gloeophyllum 

clade 

/ amylostereaceae 

/ bondarzewiaceae 

/ gloeocystidiellum II 

/ russulales 

/ gloeocystidiellum I 

/ auriscalpiaceae 

/ aleurocystidiellum 

/ bondarzewiaceae 

/ hericiaceae 

/ stereales 

/ albatrellus 

corticioid 

clade 

/ peniophorales 

russuloid 

clade 

Figure 4 Continued Gloeophyllum, thelephoroid, corticioid, and russuloid clades. Groups within the russuloid clade correspond to groups 

recognised by E. Larsson and K.-H. Larsson. 

extensive homoplasy in parenthesome evolution, possibly including 

reversals from perforate to imperforate parenthesomes 

(K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004). Nevertheless, the occurrence of 

imperforate parenthesomes in the Auriculariales s. str. and 

Dacrymycetales, and their preponderance in the cantharelloid, 

gomphoid-phalloid, hymenochaetoid, and trechisporoid 

clades suggests that this is the plesiomorphic condition in the 

Homobasidiomycetes, which is consistent with the topology 

inferred with rDNA sequences. The core dataset tree and five 

of the topologies obtained in PR analyses of the full dataset 

suggest that the cantharelloid clade is the sister group of the 

other Homobasidiomycetes, but bootstrap support is weak 

(Figs1,3,4). 

Phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms 

within the Homobasidiomycetes 

Resupinate forms occur in every major clade of Homobasidiomycetes 

(Hibbett & Binder, 2002; K.-H. Larsson et al., 

2004). The following sections and Table 3 provide a clade-byclade 

overview of the distribution of resupinate forms, based 

on this and other studies. Notes on ecology are also provided. 

More detailed commentary on the morphology and taxonomy 

of many of the resupinate forms in this study can be found in 

E. Larsson (2002), E. Langer (2002), and other works cited 

below. It is not the purpose of this study to infer the historical 

pattern of transformations between resupinate and


C 

93 

Marasmius capillaris DED4345 

Physalacria sp. GEL5189 

Marasmius delectans DED 89/62 

Crinipellis campanella DAOM 17785 

Crinipellis maxima DAOM 196019 

“Lopharia mirabilis”? FRI 330-T 

“Trechispora farinacea”? HHB 9150 

Vararia ochroleuca CBS 465.61 

Vararia gallica CBS 656.81 

Lycoperdon perlatum DSH 96-047 

Lycoperdon sp. DSH 96-054 

Calvatia gigantea DSH 96-032 

Lepiota clypeolaria VPI-OKM22029 

Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus DUKE-JJ100 

Leucocoprinus fragilissimus DUKE-JJ84 

Agaricus arvensis SAR 93/494 

Agaricus bisporus SAR 88/411 

Agaricus campestris VPI-OKM25665 

Chlorophyllum molybdites NY-EFM891 

Macrolepiota rachodes VPI-OKM19588 

Leucoagaricus naucinus VPI-OKM15134 

Leucocoprinus cepaestipes NY-EFM518 

Lepiota procera DSH 96-038 

Macrolepiota procera DUKE-JJ168 

Podaxis pistillaris J119 

Coprinus sterquilinus C123 

Montagnea arenaria J117 

Lepiota cristata DUKE1582 

Cystolepiota cystidiosa MICH18884 

Lepiota acutesquamosa DUKE-JJ177 

Tulostoma macrocephala Long 10111 FH 

Tulostoma sp. GEL5402 

Coprinopsis atramentaria C114 

Coprinopsis sp.C192 

Coprinopsis cinerea C13 

Coprinopsis kimurae C78 

Coprinopsis quadrifida RGT 930622/01 

Coprinellus bisporus C148 

Psathyrella candolleana J181 

Psathyrella gracilis J130 

Psathyrella delineata J156 

Parasola nudiceps C159 

Lacrymaria velutina J100 

Crepidotus inhonestus MCA638 

Crepidotus mollis OKM26279 

Crepidotus variabilis REG JE 5.3 

Inocybe cervicolor EL 27-99 

Inocybe sp. RV7/4 

Inocybe geophylla JM96/25 

Anellaria semiovata SAR s.n. 

Panaeolus acuminatus J129 

Panaeolina foenisecii J152 

Bolbitius vitellinus SAR 84/100 

Conocybe rickenii J183 

Ripartitella brasiliensis NY-EFM744 

Hypholoma sublateritium JM96/20 

Hypholoma subviride JJ69 

Stropharia rugosoannulata Hopple D258 

Pholiota squarrosoides JJ7 

Kuehneromyces mutabilis DSM1684 

Psilocybe silvatica RV5/7/1989 

Cortinarius stuntzii SAR 85/358 

Psilocybe stuntzii VT1263 

Hebeloma crustuliniforme SAR 87/408 

Cortinarius bolaris REG MB 96-086 

Dermocybe marylandensis JM96/24 

Rozites caperatus G96-3 

Cortinarius iodes Moncalvo96/23 

Laccaria amethystina DSH s.n. 

Laccaria pumila DSH s.n. 

Laccaria bicolor JM96/19 

Cortinarius sp. JM96/40 

Crucibulum laeve REG Crul1 

Cyathus striatus REG Cyst1 

Callistosporium luteoolivaceum RV10/1 

Resupinatus dealbatus T-818 

Resupinatus trichotis GEL4221 

Resupinatus sp. VT1520 

Resupinatus alboniger RV/JMs.n. 

Arrhenia auriscalpium Lutzoni 930731-3 

Arrhenia lobata Lutzoni & Lamoure 910824-1 

Caulorhiza hygrophoroides DAOM 172075 

Conchomyces bursaeformis RV95/302 

Pleurotus eryngii D643 

Pleurotus fossulatus D1822 

Pleurotus populinus D765 

Pleurotus ostreatus D850 

Pleurotus abieticola RHP6551.1 

Pleurotus pulmonarius D700 

Pleurotus calyptratus D1839 

Pleurotus djamor D1847 

Pleurotus cornucopiae D383 

Pleurotus cystidiosus D420 

Pleurotus dryinus F91/1116 

Pleurotus smithii D478 

Pleurotus tuberregium DSH 92-155 

Pleurotus purpureoolivaceus RV95/486 

Hohenbuehelia sp. RV95/214 

Hohenbuehelia tristis n/a 

Chrysomphalina chrysophylla SAR. 7700 

Chrysomphalina grossula Gulden 417/75 

Hygrophorus bakerensis SAR s.n. 

Hygrophorus sordidus RV94/178 

Humidicutis marginata Moncalvo96/32 

Hygrocybe citrinopallida Lutzoni 930731-1 

Athelia arachnoidea DNA815 

75 

“Hyphoderma praetermissum”? L-16187-Sp. 

Athelia fibulata GEL 5292 

Phlebiella sp. GEL4684 

Deflexula subsimplex FO41017 

Stephanospora caroticolor IOC 137/97 

Radulomyces molaris GEL5394 

Lentaria albovinacea GEL5388 

Plicaturopsis crispa FP-101310-Sp. 

Boletus retipes SAR 

Xerocomus chrysenteron TDB-635 

Boletus satanas TDB-1000C 

Phylloporus rhodoxanthus SAR 89/457 

Paragyrodon sphaerosporus TDB-420 

Paxillus filamentosus REG 304 

Hydnomerulius pinastri REG 412 

Calostoma cinnabarina MSC 362913 

Scleroderma citrinum REG Sc1 

Leucogyrophana mollusca REG 447 

Suillus cavipes TDB-646 

Suillus sinuspaulianus DAOM 66995 

Suillus luteus JM96/41 

Chroogomphus vinicolor TDB-1010 

Gomphidius glutinosus TDB-953b 

Rhizopogon subcaerulescens F-2882 

Coniophora arida REG 373 

Coniophora olivacea REG 402 

Coniophora puteana REG 410 

Coniophora marmorata REG 411 

Leucogyrophana arizonica REG 404 

Leucogyrophana olivascens REG 397 

Leucogyrophana romellii REG 401 

Serpula himantioides HHB-17587-Sp. 

Serpula lacrymans REG 697 

Serpula incrassata REG 406 

Leucogyrophana pulverulenta REG 819 

Tapinella atrotomentosa REG 310 

Tapinella panuoides REG 318 

Pseudomerulius aureus FP-103859-Sp. 

Jaapia argillacea REG 425 

athelioid clade 

Jaapia 

bolete 

clade 

Clitocybe clavipes JM96/22 

Limnoperdon incarnatum IFO30398 

Clitocybe lateritia Lutzoni 930803-1 

Limacella glioderma VT(L18) 

Pluteus primus JB94/24 

Pluteus sp. JM96/28 

Limacella glischra VPI-GB505 

Amanita jacksonii TV 96/1 

Amanita farinosa RV 96/104 

Amanita muscaria AR s.n. 

Amanita solitariiformis DD 97/12 

Amanita virosa JM 97/42 

Amanita citrina var. grisea HKAS 32506 

Amanita flavoconia RV 5Aug96 

Clitopilus prunulus RV88/109 

Entoloma odorifer TB 6366 

Entoloma strictius Moncalvo 96/10 

Ossicaulis lignatilis DUKE483 

Tricholoma giganteum IFO31860 

Tricholoma caligatum KMS 452 

Tricholoma inamoenum REG MB 96-071 

Tricholoma atroviolaceum KMS 400 

Tricholoma vernaticum KMS 246 

Tricholoma pardinum KMS 278 

Tricholoma venenatum KMS 393 

Tricholoma myomyces JM98/700 

Tricholoma focale KMS 426 

Tricholoma imbricatum KMS 356 

Tricholoma subaureum KMS 590 

Tricholoma intermedium KMS 593 

Tricholoma portentosum KMS 591 

Lyophyllum decastes JM 87/16 

Termitomyces cylindricus JM/leg.R.S.Hseu.s.n. 

Podabrella microcarpus PRU3900 

Termitomyces heimii JM/leg.S.Muid.s.n. 

Fistulina antarctica CBS 701.85 

Fistulina hepatica DSH 93-183 

Figure 4 Continued Jaapia argillacea, bolete clade, athelioid clade, and euagarics clade. 

100 

83 

Fistulina pallida CBS 508.63 

Porodisculus pendulus HHB-13576-Sp. 

Auriculariopsis ampla NH-1803-Spain 

Schizophyllum commune REG Sco1 

Lachnella villosa FO25147 

Dendrothele griseo-cana FP-101995-Sp. 

Dendrothele acerina GEL5350 

Flagelloscypha minutissima CBS 823.88 

Calathella mangrovei 1-30-01Jones 

Favolaschia intermedia L-13421-Sp. 

Halocyphina villosa IFO32086 

Nia vibrissa REG M200 

Clitocybe connata JM90c 

Cyphellopsis sp. GEL4873 

Dendrocollybia racemosa DED5575 

Cyphellopsis anomala GEL4169 

Clitocybe ramigena RV87/19 

Cyphellopsis anomala CBS 151.79 

Hypsizygus ulmarius JM/HW 

Merismodes fasciculata HHB-11894 

Henningsomyces candidus GEL4482 

Pleurocybella porrigens OKM19644 

Phyllotopsis nidulans RV96/1 

“Bulbillomyces farinosus”? FO24378 

Macrotyphula cf. juncea MIN DM-975 

98 Typhula phacorrhiza DSH 96-059 

Panellus serotinus DSH 93-218 

Mycena rutilanthiformis JM96/26 

Mycena clavicularis RV87/6 

Mycena flavoalba GEL4649 

Panellus stipticus DSH 93-213 

Resinomycena acadiensis DAOM 169949 

Mycena haematopoda GEL3777 

Favolaschia sp. GEL4781 

Favolaschia sp. GEL4835 

Xeromphalina cauticinalis RV86/11 

Panellus ringens S. Jacobsson s.n. 

Pleurotopsis longinqua RV95/473 

Chondrostereum purpureum HHB-13334-Sp. 

85 Gloeostereum incarnatum 3332 

Hydropus scabripes DAOM 192847 

Baeospora myosura GEL3962 

Baeospora myriadophylla DAOM 188774 

Armillaria tabescens D290 

Armillariella ostoyae GEL4424 

Oudemansiella mucida GEL4363 

Xerula furfuracea JM96/42 

Xerula megalospora DAOM 196115 

Strobilurus trullisatus DAOM 188775 

Cyptotrama asprata DAOM 157066 

Gloiocephala menieri DAOM 170087 

Gloiocephala aquatica CIEFAP 50 

Rhizomarasmius pyrrhocephalus DED4503 

Flammulina velutipes SAR s.n. 

Rhodotus palmatus VT356 

Physalacria bambusae CBS 712.83 

Physalacria maipoensis 2373Inderbitzin 

Cylindrobasidium laeve GEL5380 

Cylindrobasidium laeve HHB-8633-T 

100 Cylindrobasidium sp. GEL5043 

Campanella junghuhnii GEL4720 

Campanella subdendrophora DAOM 175393 

Gerronema strombodes Kuyper 2984 

Gerronema subclavatum Redhead 5175 

Henningsomyces candidus T-156 

Rectipilus fasciculatus GEL4485 

Neonothopanus nambi RVPR27 

Omphalotus nidiformis T1946.8 

Lampteromyces japonicus JMlegMURAKAMI 

Micromphale perforans RV83/67 

Marasmius alliaceus GEL4610 

Marasmiellus ramealis DED3973 

Rhodocollybia maculata RV94/175 

Collybia dryophila RV83/180 

Collybia polyphylla RV182.01 

Lentinula edodes ATCC 42962 

Lentinula lateritia DSH 92-143 

bootstrap 

65-79% 

80-89% 

90-100% 

50 changes 

core euagarics clade 

euagarics clade


Isolates b 

Clade 

Subclade/species Sequences a This study Other studies 

Athelioid clade 

‘Amphinema byssoides’ 1,2 − HHB 13195-Sp. A + EL 11-98 

Athelia arachnoidea 1,2 + 815 B − ‘GEL 2529.1’ 

2 − ‘GEL 2529.1’ 

Athelia decipiens A + JS 4930 

‘Athelia epiphylla’ 1,2,3,4 − HHB-8546-sp A + EL 12-98 

Athelia fibulata 2 + GEL 5292 B − GEL 5292 

Atheliopsis subinconspicua A + KHL 8490 

Byssocorticium pulchrum A + KHL 11710 

Piloderma byssinum A + KHL 8456 

Piloderma lanatum A + JS 24861 

Tylospora asterophora 

Bolete clade 

A + KHL 8566 

Coniophora arida 1,2,3,4 + MB-1823-sp A + KHL 8547 

B + AF098375 

C + SFC 990911-57 

Coniophora marmorata 2 +411 

Coniophora olivacea 2 + 402 

Coniophora puteana 1,2,3,4 + FP-102430sp 

Hydnomerulius pinastri 2 +412 

Leucogyrophana arizonica 2 + 404 

Leucogyrophana mollusca 2 + 447 

Leucogyrophana olivascens 2 + 397 

Leucogyrophana pulverulenta 2 +819 

Leucogyrophana romellii 2 + 401 A + KHL 11066 

Pseudomerulius aureus 1,2,3 + FP-103859sp A + B.Norden 

C + SFC 970927-4 

Serpula himantioides 1,2,3,4 + HHB-17587sp B + GEL 5395 

Serpula incrassata 2,4 + 406 

Serpula lacrymans 

Cantharelloid clade 

2 + 697 

Botryobasidium agg. candicans 2 + GEL 2090 B + GEL 2090 

Botryobasidium agg. vagum 2 + GEL 4181 B + GEL 4181 

Botryobasidium botryosum A + KHL 11081 

Botryobasidium candicans 2 + GEL 3083 B + GEL 3083 

Botryobasidium isabellinum 2 + GEL 2108 B + GEL 2108 

1,2,3,4 + GEL 2109 C + GEL 2109 

Botryobasidium sp. 2 + GEL 4698 B + GEL 4698 

2 + GEL 5132 B + GEL 5132 

Botryobasidium subcoronatum 2 + GEL 4673 B + GEL 4673 

2 + GEL 5397 B + GEL 5397 

1,2,3,4 + FCUG 1286 C + GEL 1286 

Botryobasidium vagum 2 +GEL2122 

Ceratobasidium sp. 1,2,3,4 + GEL 5602 

Haplotrichum conspersum A + KHL 11063 

C + SFC990123-15 

Membranomyces delectabilis A + KHL 11147 

Multiclavula mucidac 1,2,3 + DSH 93-056 C + DSH 93-056 

Piriformospora indicac 1,2,3 + DSM 11827 

Table 3 Phylogenetic distribution of resupinate and other selected reduced species among the major clades of Homobasidiomycetes and 

outgroups (Auriculariales and Dacrymycetales), as estimated by the present study, K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), Langer (2002), Lim 

(2001; nuc-ssu rDNA analyses only), and Kim & Jung (2000)


Isolates b 

Clade 


Serendipita vermiferad 2 + CBS 572.83 

Sistotrema alboluteum A+UK166 

Sistotrema brinkmannii 2 + GEL 3134 A + NH 11412/2206 

B + FO 31682 

B+GEL3134 

Sistotrema confluensc A + PV 174 

Sistotrema coronilla A + NH 7598/785 

Sistotrema diademiferum C + SFC990521-13 

Sistotrema eximum 1,2,3,4 + RGT 420 

Sistotrema sernanderi 2,3 + CBS 926.70 

‘Sistotrema muscicola’ 1,2,3 − FPL 8233 A + KHL 8794 

Thanatephorus praticola 1,2,3 + IMI-34886 

Tulasnella obscura B + GEL 4624 

Tulasnella pruinosa 2,3,4 + DAOM 17641 

Tulasnella sp. 2 + GEL 4461 B + GEL 4461 

2 + GEL 4745 B + GEL 4745 

Tulasnella violea 2,3 + DAOM 222001 

Uthatobasidium fusisporum 1,2,3 + HHB 102155sp 

Uthatobasidium sp. 

Corticioid clade 

2 + FO 30284 B + FO 30284 

Corticium roseum A + EL 13-98 

C+ eSFC 991231-9 

Dendrocorticium polygonioides 2 + FO 36469g B + FO 36469g 

Dendrocorticium roseocarneum 1,2,3,4 + FPL 1800 A + FPL 1800 

Dendrothele maculata A + HHB 10621 

Erythricium laetum A + GB/NH14530 

Galzinia incrustans 1,2,3,4 + HHB-12952sp 

Laetisaria fuciformis 1,2,3,4 + NJ-2 Jackson 

Marchandiomyces aurantiacus 2 + DePriest 

Marchandiomyces corallinus 2 + DePriest 

Marchandiomyces lignicola 2 + DePriest 

Punctularia strigoso-zonata 1,2 + HHB-11897sp A + LR 40885 

Vuilleminia comedens 1,2,3 + T-583 A + EL 1-99 

B + GEL 4110 

C + SFC 990326-21 

Vuilleminia macrospora 

Euagarics clade 

A + EL 21-99 

Amylocorticium cebennense A + JS 24813 

Amylocorticium subincarnatum A+˚AS-95 

Anomoporia bombycina A + GG u612 

Anomoporia kamtschatica A + KHL 11072 

Athelia bombacina C + no data 

Auriculariopsis amplac 2,3,4 + NH 1803 

‘Bulbillomyces farinosus’ 2, + FO 24378 B + FO 24378 

Calathella mangroveic 1,2,3 + 1-30-01Jones 

Calyptella campanulac B+ 

Ceraceomyces tessulatus ?KHL 8474 

Chondrostereum purpureum 1,2,3,4 + HHB-13334sp A + EL 59-97 

B + GEL 5348 

C + SFC 971001-13 

C + CBS 427.72 

Table 3 Continued.


Isolates b 

Clade 


Coronicium alboglaucum 2 + GEL 5058 A − NH 4208/377 

B − GEL 5058 

Cylindrobasidium laeve 1,2,3,4 + HHB-8633-T A + Ulvesund 

2 + GEL 5380 B + GEL 5380 

C + SFC990121-8 

Cylindrobasidium sp. 2 + GEL 5043 B + GEL 5043 

Cyphellopsis anomalac 1,2,3,4 + CBS 151.79 B + GEL 4169 

2 +GEL4169 

Cyphellopsis sp. c + GEL 4873 B + GEL 4873 

Cystostereum murraii C + CBS 257.73 

Dendrothele acerina 2 + GEL 5350 B + GEL 5350 

Dendrothele griseocana 2 + FP 101995-sp 

‘dendrotheloid’ sp. B + GEL 4798 

Favolaschia intermediac 1,2,3,4 + L-13421-sp 

Flagelloscypha minutissimac 1,2,4 + CBS 823.88 

Gloeostereum incarnatumc 2 + NH 3332 

Halocyphina villosac 1,2,3,4 + IFO 32086 

Henningsomyces candidus2 1,2,3,4 + GEL 4482 B + GEL 4482 

Hypochniciellum subillaqueatum A + KHL 8493 

Lachnella villosac 1,2,3,4 + CBS 609.87 B + FO 25147 

Merismodes fasciulatusc 1,2,3 + HHB-11894 

Mucronella calva B + GEL 4458 

Mycoacia copelandii C + SFC990710-6 

Phlebiella pseudotsugae A + NH 10396/1953 

Plicaturopsis crispac 1,2,3,4 ?FP 101310-sp B − GEL 4132 

C − SFC 990320-8 

Rectipilus fasciculatus B + GEL 4485 

Schizophyllum communec Gloeophyllum clade 

1,2,3,4 + DSH 96-026 B + GEL 4623 

Boreostereum radiatum C+CBS417.61 

Donkioporia expansa C + CBS 299.93 

Gloeophyllum sepiariumc 1,2,3,4 + DAOM 137861 

Heliocybe sulcatac 1,2,3 + D. 797 

Veluticeps berkeleyi 

Gomphoid-phalloid clade 

1,2,4 + RLG-7116-sp C + CBS 725.68 

Kavinia alboviridis A + EL 16-98 

Kavinia himantia 1,2,3,4 + FP-101479sp A + LL-98 

Kavinia sp. B − FO 25092 

Ramaricium alboflavescens 

Hymenochaetoid clade 

1,2,4 + DAOM-17712 

Asterodon ferruginosum A + KHL 11176 

Basidioradulum radula 1,2,3 + FO 23507a A + NH 9453 

B+GEL4107 

C + no data 

Fibricium rude 2 + GEL 2121 B + GEL 2121 

Hyphoderma guttuliferum A + NH 12012/2438 

Hyphoderma praetermissum 1,2,3,4 − ‘L-16187-sp.’ A + NH 9536/1708 

B + GEL 4845 

Hyphodontia aff. breviseta 2 + GEL 4214 B + GEL 4214 

Hyphodontia alienata A + EL14-98 

Hyphodontia agg. alutaria B + GEL 2034 

Table 3 Continued.


Isolates b 

Clade 


Hyphodontia alutaria 1,2,3,4 + ‘GEL 2071’ C + ‘GEL 2071’ 

2 + GEL 4553 

Hyphodontia alutacea 2 + GEL 2397 B + GEL 2937 

Hyphodontia aspera 2 + GEL 2135 A + KHL 8530 

B + GEL 2135 

Hyphodontia barbajovis B + GEL 3806 

Hyphodontia borealis A + JS 26064 

Hyphodontia breviseta A + JS 17863 

Hyphodontia cineracea 2 + GEL 4875 B + GEL 4875 

Hyphodontia crustosa 2 + GEL 5360 B + GEL 5360 

Hyphodontia nespori 2 + GEL 4190 B + GEL 4190 

Hyphodontia niemelaei 2 + GEL 5068 

Hyphodontia nudiseta 2 + GEL 5302 B + GEL 5302 

Hyphodontia pallidula 2 + GEL 4533 B + GEL 4533 

Hyphodontia palmae 2 + GEL 4536 B + GEL 3456 

Hyphodontia quercina A + KHL 11076 

Hyphodontia sambuci 2 + FO 42008 B + GEL 2414 

Hyphodontia serpentiformis 2 + GEL 3307 B + GEL 3307 

Oxyporus populinusc 2 + FO 35584 B + FO 35584 

Repetobasidium mirificium 1,2,3,4 + FP-133558sp 

Resinicium bicolor 1,2,3 + FP-135104sp A + NH 11540/2228 

B − GEL 4664 

C + HHB 10103 

C + CBS 253.73 

Schizopora flavipora 2 + GEL 3545 B + GEL 3545 

Schizopora paradoxa 1,2,3 + GEL 2511 B + GEL 4188 

C − GEL 2511 

Schizopora radula 2,3 + GEL 3798 

Sphaerobasidium minutum 2 + GEL 5373 B + GEL 5373 

Subulicium sp. 2 + GEL 4808 B + GEL 4808 

Trichaptum abietinumc 1,2,3 + FPL 8973 B + GEL 5237 

Tubulicrinis gracillimus 1,2 + HHB-13180sp 

Tubulicrinis subulatus 2 + GEL 5286 A + KHL 11079 

B + GEL 5286 

Tubulicrinus sp. 

Hymenochaetaceae 

2 + GEL 5046 B + GEL 5046 

Fomitoporia punctata 2 + 85-74 

Fuscoporia contigua 2 + TW 699 

Fuscoporia ferrea 2 + 87-8 

Fuscoporia ferruginosa 2 + 82-930 

Hydnochaete olivacea 1,2,3 + CLA 02-003 

Hymenochaete acanthophysata 2 + CBS 925.96 

Hymenochaete adusta 2 + TAA 95-37 

Hymenochaete berteroi 2 + CBS 733.86 

Hymenochaete boidinii 2 + CBS 726.91 

Hymenochaete carpatica 2 + TW 27.9.97 

Hymenochaete cervinoidea 2 + CBS 736.86 

Hymenochaete cinnamomea 2 + LK 27.9.97 A + EL 6-99 

Hymenochaete corrugata 1,2,3 + FP-104124sp 

Hymenochaete cruenta 2 + HB 149/80 

Hymenochaete denticulata 2 + CBS 780.91 

Table 3 Continued.


Isolates b 

Clade 


Hymenochaete duportii 2 + CBS 941.96 

Hymenochaete fuliginosa 2 + CBS 933.96 

Hymenochaete japonica 2 + CBS 499.76 

Hymenochaete nanospora 2 + CBS 924.96 

Hymenochaete ochromarginata 2 + CBS 928.96 

Hymenochaete pinnatifida 2 + CBS 770.91 

Hymenochaete pseudoadusta 2 + TAA 95-38 

Hymenochaete rhabarbarina 2 + GEL 4809 B + GEL 4809 

Hymenochaete rubiginosa 2 + TW 22.9.97 

Hymenochaete separabilis 2 + CBS 738.86 

Hymenochaete separata 2 + TAA 95-24 

Hymenochaete sp. 2 A + KHL 11024 

Mensularia hastifera 2 + 84-1023a 

Phellinidium ferrugineofuscum 2 + TN 6121 

Phellinus laevigatus 2 + TN 3260 

Phellopilus nigrolimitatusc 2 + 85-823 

Pseudochaete tabacina 

Jaapia 

2 + FPL 3000 

Jaapia argillacea 

Polyporoid clade 


1,2,3,4 + Reg 425 

Dendrodontia sp. 2 + GEL 4767 B + GEL 4767 

Dentocorticium sulphurellum 1,2,3,4 + FPL 11801 C + FPL 11801 

Diplomitoporus crustulinus C − CBS 443.48 

Diplomitoporus lindbladii 1,2 + KEW 212 B + GEL 4653 

Grammothele fuligo 2 + GEL 5391 B + GEL 5391 

Junghuhnia subundata 1,2,3,4 + LR-38938 

Lopharia cinerascens A + EL 63-97 

C + CBS 486.62 

Lopharia mirabilis 1,2,3 − FRI 330-T C + SFC 990623-11?? 

Perenniporia medulla-panis 1,2,3 + CBS 45 

Wolfiporia cocos 


1,2,3,4 + FPL 4198 C + ATCC 13490 

Anomoporia albolutescens C + CBS 337.63 

Bjerkandera adustac 1,2,3,4 + DAOM 21586 C + DAOM 21586 

Byssomerulis corium A + KHL 8593 

Byssomerulius sp. 2 + FO 22261 B + FO 22261 

Ceraceomyces eludens 2 + JS22780 A + JS 22780 

Ceraceomyces microsporus 2 + KHL 8473 

Ceraceomyces serpens 1,2,3 + FP-102285-sp A + KHL 8478 

Ceriporia purpurea 1,2,3,4 + DAOM 21318 C + DAOM 21316 

Ceriporia viridans 1,2,3,4 + FPL 7440 A + KHL 8765 

B + FO 24398 

Ceriporiopsis subvermispora 1,2,3,4 + FP 90031-sp. C − CBS 525.92 

Climacodon septentrionalec 2,4 + HHB 13438-sp 

2 + DSH 93-187 

Cystidiophora castanea C + SFC 980119-2 

Cystidiodontia isabellina 2 + GEL 4978 B + GEL 4978 

Gelatoporia pannocincta 2 + FCUG 2109 

Gloeoporus taxicolac 1,2,3,4 + KEW 213 A + 98 

C + SFC 000111-3 

C + SFC 950815-16 

Table 3 Continued.


Isolates b 

Clade 


Irpex lacteus C + ??SFC 951007-39 

C + IFO 5367 

‘Lindtneria trachyspora’ 1,2,3,4 + CBS 290.85 

Lopharia spadicea C + CBS 474.48 

Mycoacia aff. fuscoatra 2 + GEL 5166 B + GEL 5166 

Mycoacia aurea 2 + GEL 5339 A + NH 14434 

B + GEL 5339 

Mycoacia uda B+GEL3102 

Mycoaciella bispora A + EL 13-99 

Oxyporus latemarginatus C + ATCC 9408 

Phanerochaete chrysorhiza 2 + T-484 

Phanerochaete chrysosporium 1,2,3,4 + FPL 5175 C + FPL 5175 

Phanerochaete sordida 2 + GEL 4160 B + GEL 4160 

C + SFC 980201-11 

Phlebia acerina 2 + FCUG 568 

Phlebia albomellea 1,2,3,4 + CBS 275.92 

Phlebia centrifuga 2 + FCUG 2396 B + AF 141618 

Phlebia chrysocreas 1,2,3 + FPL6080 A + KHL 10216 

Phlebia deflectens 2 + FCUG 1568 

Phlebia lilascens 2 + FCUG 1801 

Phlebia lindtneri 2 + FCUG 2413 A + NH 12239/2413 

Phlebia livida 2 + FCUG 2189 

Phlebia nitidula 2 + FCUG 2028 

Phlebia radiata 1,2,3,4 + FPL 6140 A + NH 12118/2423 

B + AF 141627 

B + GEL 5258 

C+FPL6140 

C + ??KCTC 6759 

Phlebia rufa 2 + FCUG 2397 A + NH 12094/2397 

Phleba sp. 2 + GEL 4492 B + GEL 4492 

Phlebia subochracea 2 + FCUG 1161 

Phlebia subserialis 2 + FCUG 1434 

Phlebia tremellosa 2,3 + FPL 4294 A + NH 10162/1813 

Phlebia uda 2 + FCUG 2452 

Phlebiopsis gigantea 1,2,3,4 + FP-101815-sp B + GEL 2500 

Pulcherricium caeruleum 1,2,3,4 + FPL 7658 C + ??IFO 4974 

C + FPL 7658 

Rigidoporus vinctus C + ATCC 32575 

Scopuloides hydnoides 


2 + GEL 3139 B + GEL 3139 

B + GEL 3859 

Antrodia carbonicac 1,2,3,4 + DAOM 197828 C + DAOM 197828 

Antrodia serialisc 2 + GEL 4465 B + GEL 4465 

Antrodia xantha 1,2,3 + KEW 43 

Auriporia aurea 1,2,3,4 + FPL 7026 

Dacryobolus karstenii C + SFC 971006-13 

Dacryobolus sudans 1,2,3,4 + FP-150381 

Parmastomyces transmutans 1,2 + L-14910-sp 

Melanoporia nigra 

residual polypores (incertae sedis) 

C + CBS 341.63 

Antrodiella americana − CBS 386.51 

Antrodiella romellii 2 + GEL 4231 B + GEL 4231 

Table 3 Continued.


Isolates b 

Clade 


Antrodiella semisupinac 2 + KEW 65 B + GEL 4513 

Candelabrochaete africana 1,2,3,4 + FP-102987-sp 

Ceriporiopsis gilvescens 2 + KEW 16 

Columnocystis abietina C + HHB 12622-sp 

Columnocystis ambigua C + CBS 136.63 

Cyphella digitalisc 2,3 + Thorn-617 

‘dendrotheloid’ sp. 2 + GEL 4798 

Hyphoderma definitum 2 + GEL 2898 B + GEL 2898 

Hyphoderma incrustatum A + KHL 6685/2029 

Hyphoderma nemorale A + EM 2793/2324 

Hyphoderma nudicephalum 2 + GEL 4727 B + GEL 4727 

Hyphoderma obtusum A + JS 17804 

Hyphoderma occidentale A + KHL 8469G 

Hyphoderma roseocremeum A + NH 10545/1945 

Hyphoderma setigerum 2 + GEL 4001 A + KHL 8544/1264 

B + GEL 4001 

Hypochnicium eichleri 2 + GEL 3137 B + GEL 3137 

Hypochnicium geogenium 2 + GEL 4081 B + GEL 4081 

Hypochnicium polonense 2 + GEL 4428 B + GEL 4428 

Hypochnicium sp. 2 + GEL 4741 B + GEL 4741 

Junghuhnia nitida 2 + FO 24179a B + FO 24179a 

C − SFC 940903-7 

Phanerochaete sanguinea 2 + FO 25062a B + FO 25062a 

Phlebia bresadolae 2 + FCUG 1242 

Phlebia griseoflavescens 2 ?FCUG 1907 

Phlebia queletii 2 + FCUG 722 

Physisporinus sanguinolentus 2 + GEL 4449 B + GEL 4449 

Skeletocutis amorphac 2 + KEW 51 

Skeletocutis subincarnatac B + GEL 3129 

Steccherinum fimbriatum 


1,2,3,4 + FP-102075 


Russuloid clade 

1,2,3,4 + FP-150236 

Acanthobasidium norvegicum 2 + T-623 

Acanthobasidium phragmitis 2 + CBS 233.86 

Acanthofungus rimosus 2 + Wu 9601-1 

Acanthophysium bisporum 2 +T614 

Acanthophysium cerrusatum 1,2,3,4 + FPL11572 A + NH 11910/2350f Acanthophysium lividocaeruleum 2 + FP 100292 

Acanthophysium sp. 2 + GEL 5022 B + GEL 5022 

Aleurocystidiellum disciformis 2 + T529 

Aleurocystidiellum subcruentatum 2 + GEL 5288 

Aleurodiscus abietis 2 + T-330 

Aleurodiscus amorphus 2 + HHB 15282 C + no data 

Aleurodiscus botryosus 1,2,3 + CBS 195.91 C + CBS 195.91 

Aleurodiscus grantii 2 + T541 

Aleurodiscus lapponicus 2 + FP-100753-Sp 

Aleurodiscus laurentianus 2 + HHB 11235 

Aleurodiscus mirabilis 2 + Wu 9304 

Aleurodiscus oakesii 2 + FP 101813 

Aleurodiscus penicillatus 2 + T-322 

Table 3 Continued.


Isolates b 

Clade 


Aleurodiscus weirii 2 + FP 134813 

Amylostereum areolatum c A + NH 8041/1080 

B − GEL 5265 

C + CBS 334.66 

Amylostereum chailettii 1,2,3 + FCUG 2025 C + CBS 480.83 

Amylostereum laevigatum 1,2,3,4 + CBS 623.8 

Asterostroma andinum 1,2,3,4 + HHB-9023-sp 

Asterostroma laxum A + EL 33-99 

Asterostroma medium 2 + CBS 119.50 

Asterostroma musicola A + GB/KHL9573 

Asterostroma ochroleuca 2 + HB 9/89 

Dendrothele candida 2 + HHB 3843-sp 

Dentipellis separans 1,2,3,4 + CBS 538.90 

Dichostereum durum 2 + CBS 707.81 

Dichostereum effuscatum 2 + CBS 516.80 A + GG 930915 

Dichostereum pallescens 1,2,3 + CBS 717.8 

Gloeocystidiellum aculeatum 2 + AF265546 

Gloeocystidiellum clavigerum 2 + JS 16976 

Gloeocystidiellum leucoxanthum 1,2,3,4 + CBS 454.86 C + CBS 454.86 

Gloeocystidiellum porosum 2,3 + CBS 510.85 

Gloeocystidiellum sp. 2 + NH 13258 

Gloeocystidiellum sp. 2 + NH 12972 

Gloeocystidiellum subaerisporum A + KHL 8695 

Gloeodontia discolor A + KHL 10099 

Gloeohypochnicium analogum A + NH 12140 

Gloeopeniophorella convolvens A + KHL 10103 

Gloiothele lactescens A + EL 8-98 

Lachnocladium sp. c A + KHL 10556 

Laurilia sulcata 1,2,4 + CBS 365.49 

Laxitextum bicolor 2 1,2,3,4 + CBS 284.73 A + NH 5166/1350 

C + CBS 284.73 

Peniophora cinerea A + NH 9808/1788 

Peniophora incarnata A + NH 10271/1909 

Peniophora nuda 1,2,3,4 + FPL 4756 C + FPL 4756 

‘Peniophora sp.’ 2 − GEL 4884 B − GEL 4884 

Scytinostroma aluta 1,2,3,4 + CBS 762.81 C + no data 

Scytinostroma caudisporum 1,2,4 + CBS 746.86 

Scytinostroma euarasiatico-galactinum 1,2,3 + CBS 666.84 

Scytinostroma ochroleucum 2 + CBS 767.86 

Scytinostroma odoratum A + KHL 8546 

Scytinostroma portentosum 2,3,4 + CBS 503.48 B − GEL 3225 

Scytinostroma renisporum 1,2,3,4 + CBS 770.86 

Stereum armeniacum c B + GEL 4857 

Stereum gausapatum c B+GEL4615 

C + CBS 348.39 

Stereum hirsutum c 1,2,3,4 + FPL 8805 A + NH 7960/1022 

B + GEL 4599 

C + FPL 8805 

Stereum ostrea c C + SFC 960921-8 

Stereum rugosum c 2 + HHB 13390-sp A + NH 11952/2353 

Stereum subtomentosum c C + ??SFC 990709-12 

Table 3 Continued.


Isolates b 

Clade 


‘Vararia gallica’ − ?CBS 656.81 

Vararia insolita 1,2,3 + CBS 667.81 

Vararia investiens A + 164122 

‘Vararia ochroleucum’ 2 − CBS 683.81 

Vararia parmastoi 2,3 + CBS 647.84 

Vararia sphaericospora 2,3 + CBS 700.81 

Vesiculomyces citrinus A + EL 53-97 

Xenasma rimicola 1,2,3,4 + FP-133272-sp 

Xylobolus annosumc C + ??CBS 490.76 

Xylobolus frustulatus 2 + FP 106073 

Xylobolus subpileatus 

Thelephoroid clade 

2 + FP 106735 

Amaurodon viridis A + 149664 

Pseudotomentella mucidula 2 + Koljalg 60 

Pseudotomentella nigra 2 + Koljalg 16 

Pseudotomentella ochracea 2 + GB, EL99-97 B + AF092847 

Pseudotomentella tristis A + 159485 

Tomentella botryoides A + KHL 8453 

Tomentella caerulea 2 + Koljalg 75 

Tomentella ferruginea 2 + Koljalg 78 

Tomentella stuposa 2 + Koljalg 21 

Tomentella terrestris A + 159557 

Tomentellopsis echinospora 

Trechisporoid clade 

A + KHL 8459 

Hyphodontia gossypina 2 ?GEL 5042 B + GEL 5042 

Porpomyces mucidus 2 + KHL 8471 

2 + KHL 8620 

2 + KHL 11062 

Sistotremastrum niveocremeum 2 + EL 96-97 A + EL 96-97 

2 + FO 29191g B + FO 36914 

B + FO 29191 

‘Sistotremastrum niveocremeum’ 2 − FO 36914 

Sistotremastrum sp. 2 + FO 36293b B + FO 36293b 

Sublicystidium longisporum 2 + GEL 3550 B + GEL 5217a 

Sublicystidium sp. A + KHL 10780 

Trechispora araneosa 2 + KHL 8570 A + KHL 8570 

Trechispora confinis 2 + KHL 11064 A + KHL 11064 

A + KHL 11197 

Trechispora farinacea 2 + KHL 8451 A + KHL 8793 

2 + KHL 8454 

2 + KHL 8793 

‘Trechispora farinacea’ 2 − HHB 9150 

Trechispora hymenocystis 2 + KHL 8795 A + KHL 8795 

Trechispora incisa 2 + EH 24/98 

Trechispora kavinioides 2 + KGN 981002 A + PN 1824 

Trechispora nivea A + G.Kristiansen 

Trechispora regularis 2 + KHL 10881 A + KHL 10881 

Trechispora sp. 2 + KHL 10715 

Trechispora subsphaerospora 2 + KHL 8511 A + KHL 8511 

Tubulicium vermiculare 2 + GEL 5015 B + GEL 5015 

Tubulicium vermiferum A + KHL 8714 

Table 3 Continued.


Isolates b 

Clade 



Basidiodendron caesiocinereum 2 + GEL 5361 B + GEL 5361 

Basidiodendron sp. 2 + GEL 4674 B + GEL 4674 

Bourdotia sp. 2 + GEL 4777 B + GEL 4777 

Exidia thuretiana 2 + GEL 5242 B + GEL 5242 

Exidiopsis calcea 1,2 + HHB-15059-sp A + KHL 11075 

Heterochaete sp. 


2 + GEL 4813 B + GEL 4813 

Cerinomyces crustulinus A + KHL 8688 

Cerinomyces grandinioides 2 + GEL 4761 B + GEL 4761 

Paullicorticium ansatum 

Incertae sedis 

A + KHL 8553 

Deflexula subsimplexc 2 ?FO 41017 B − FO 41017 

Phlebiella sp. 2 ?GEL 4684 B − GEL 4684 

Radulomyces confluens A + KHL 8792 

Radulomyces molaris 2 − GEL 5394 A + ML 0499 

B + GEL 5394 

Radulomyces rickii A + JK 951007 

a Key to sequences: 1 = nuc-ssu, 2 = nuc-lsu, 3 = mt-ssu, 4 = mt-lsu; numbers in bold type indicate sequences newly reported in this study. 

b Symbols preceding isolate numbers: + indicates that species is placed in this clade; – indicates that species was placed in a different clade; the 

placement in this table reflects hypothesised correct placement; ? indicates that species is placed in this clade, but there is uncertainty about the 

placement or the identification of the isolate; ?? indicates that it is not certain if this isolate was the source of the sequence; names and strain numbers in 

quotation marks indicate that isolate may be misidentified. Other studies referenced: A = K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004); B = Langer (2002); C = Lim (2001) 

and Kim & Jung (2000). 

c Non-resupinate species. 

d As Sebacina vermifera. 

e As Laeticorticium roseocarneum. 

f As Aleurodiscus cerrusatus. 

g As Paullicorticium niveocremeum. 

erect forms. Readers interested in this subject should refer to 

Hibbett & Binder (2002) and K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004). 

This study included 39 genera of resupinate Homobasidiomycetes 

that are represented by more than one species 

(Table 3). Of these, 27 are not resolved as monophyletic 

(not considering certain taxa where misidentifications are 

likely; i.e. ‘Sistotrema muscicola’and‘Trechispora farinacea’, 

see below), which indicates how much work there is to be done 

in the taxonomy of resupinate Homobasidiomycetes (Fig. 4). 

There are also many individual isolates whose placements 

conflicted with their expected positions based on morphology 

or molecular data from other isolates. Some of these results are 

probably due to misidentifications, which underscores the importance 

of studying multiple accessions of individual species 

when working with taxonomically challenging organisms. 

Other problematical results may be due to the usual vagaries of 

molecular systematics, including PCR contamination and clerical 

error. Because we cannot positively identify the sources of 

error in most cases, the problematical sequences are designated 

as ‘mislabelled’. 

1. Cantharelloid clade 

Support for the monophyly of the cantharelloid clade was 

discussed previously. The cantharelloid clade includes a seemingly 

heterogeneous assortment of taxa that have been regarded 

as Homobasidiomycetes or heterobasidiomycetes. Basidial 

morphology is remarkably diverse, including not only the various 

‘heterobasidioid’ forms, but also clavate or urniform holobasidia 

with six or eight sterigmata (e.g., Botryobasidium 

subcoronatum, Sistotrema brinkmannii), and elongate cylindric 

holobasidia with two to four sterigmata (e.g., Clavulina 

cinerea, Cantharellus cibarius). The topology in Fig. 4 implies 

that holobasidia may be derived within the cantharelloid 

clade, and therefore may not be homologous with holobasidia 

in the rest of the Homobasidiomycetes. Admittedly, this hypothesis 

is based on a weakly supported topology within the 

cantharelloid clade (Fig. 4). Nevertheless, it is consistent with 

observations that holobasidia in the cantharelloid clade are 

stichic (meaning that the axis of the first meiotic division is 

oriented parallel to the length of the basidium) whereas holobasidia 

in the remaining clades of Homobasidiomycetes are

chiastic (first meiotic spindle is oriented transversely) (Pine 

et al., 1999; Hibbett & Thorn, 2001). 

The cantharelloid clade includes a mixture of resupinate 

and non-resupinate forms. Non-resupinate forms include 

Cantharellus spp., Craterellus cornucopoides, Hydnum 

spp., Clavulina cinerea and Multiclavula mucida. Resupinate 

forms occur in six well-supported clades: (1) Tulasnellales; 

(2) Piriformospora-Serendipita; (3) Ceratobasidiales; 

(4) Botryobasidium;(5)Sistotrema eximum and S. sernanderi; 

and (6) Sistotrema brinkmannii and ‘Sistotremastrum niveocremeum’ 

(Fig. 4). The first three groups have already been 

discussed. 

Botryobasidium is represented by eleven sequences from 

at least four species, most of which were included in the 

analysis of E. Langer (2002). Basidia and basisidiospores 

are highly variable in Botryobasidium (G. Langer, 1994; 

G. Langer et al., 2000). For example, B. subcoronatum has six 

sterigmata per basidium and smooth navicular spores, whereas 

B. isabellinum has four sterigmata and spiny globose spores 

(G. Langer, 1994). Other Botryobasidium species have as few 

as two or as many as eight sterigmata (and in this way resemble 

Sistotrema) and spores that are elliptic, cylindrical, ovoid or 

‘bananiform’ (G. Langer et al., 2000). Nevertheless, many 

Botryobasidium species share anatomical characters, including 

a unique rectangular hyphal branching and production of 

a Haplotrichum anamorph (G. Langer, 1994). Botryobasidium 

is strongly supported as monophyletic (Fig. 4). 

The two groups that contain Sistotrema isolates are not 

resolved as sister taxa. Comparable results were obtained by 

K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), who suggested that the basidia 

with 6–8 sterigmata have been overemphasised as a generic 

character. The Sistotrema brinkmannii-‘Sistotremastrum niveocremeum’ 

clade is placed as the sister group of Multiclavula 

mucida, which suggests the occurrence of a transformation 

between clavarioid and resupinate fruiting body forms. Two 

potentially mislabelled sequences involve these groups (Fig. 4, 

Table 3). The first is the isolate labelled ‘Sistotremastrum 

niveocremeum’ (FO36914), which is placed as the sister group 

of Sistotrema brinkmannii (Fig. 4). Two other isolates of 

S. niveocremeum are included in this analysis, as well as one 

isolate labelled Sistotremastrum sp., and all three are tightly 

clustered in the trechisporoid clade. The second problem is 

an isolate labelled ‘Sistotrema muscicola’ (FPL8233) that is 

placed in the phlebioid clade. K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) examined 

a different isolate of S. muscicola and found that it is 

placed in the cantharelloid clade, as are the three other species 

of Sistotrema included here. 

The composition of the cantharelloid clade in this study 

agrees with the findings of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) and 

E. Langer (2002), who sampled many of the same groups 

that were included in this study. Resupinate taxa that K.-H. 

Larsson et al. (2004) sampled that were not represented in the 

present study include Haplotrichum conspersum, which is an 

anamorph of Botryobasidium,andMembranomyces delectabilis, 

which was originally classified as a species of Clavulicium. 

Basidia in Clavulicium and Membranomyces have two 

to four sterigmata, which (when two-spored) resemble basidia 


of the coral fungus Clavulina (Eriksson & Ryvarden, 1973; 

K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004). Clavulicium has been placed 

in the Clavulinaceae (Donk, 1964; Parmasto, 1968), but 

Eriksson & Ryvarden (1973) retained it in the Corticiaceae. 

The analysis of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) placed 

M. delectabilis as the sister group of Clavulina cristata,which 

provides another example of a resupinate-clavarioid transformation 

in the cantharelloid clade. Another noteworthy taxon that 

was included in the analysis of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) but 

not the present study is Sistotrema confluens, which produces 

pileate-stipitate fruiting bodies with a poroid to hydnoid hymenophore. 

The analysis of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) placed 

S. confluens as the sister group of a clade containing Sistotrema 

muscicola and Hydnum repandum. Taken together, the 

results of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) and the present study suggest 

that there have been numerous transformations between 

resupinate and non-resupinate forms in the clade containing 

Sistotrema, Clavulicium, Multiclavula, Clavulina, Hydnum 

and Cantharellaceae (Fig. 4). 

Species in the cantharelloid clade have diverse nutritional 

modes. Botryobasidium is reportedly saprotrophic 

(G. Langer et al., 2000). The Ceratobasidiales and Tulasnellales 

include saprotrophs, orchid symbionts, liverwort symbionts 

and economically important plant pathogens (Stalpers & 

Andersen, 1996; Roberts, 1999; Hietala et al., 2001; Kristiansen 

et al., 2001; Wells & Bandoni, 2001; Bidartondo et al., 

2003; Kottke et al., 2003). Sikaroodi et al. (2001) showed that 

a lichenicolous (lichen-inhabiting) asexual fungus, which they 

called “marchandiomyces-like”, is closely related to Thanatephorus 

praticola and “Rhizoctonia sp.”, and may therefore 

be a member of the Ceratobasidiales (other Marchandiomyces 

species are in the corticioid clade; see below). The Cantharellaceae, 

Clavulina and Hydnum are well known as ectomycorrhizal, 

and recently it has been demonstrated that Sebacinaceae 

also form ectomycorrhizae, orchid mycorrhizae, ericoid 

mycorrhizae and associations with liverworts (Warcup, 1988; 

Kristiansen et al., 2001; Berch et al., 2002; Selosse et al., 

2002; Bidartondo et al., 2003; Kottke et al., 2003; Urban 

et al., 2003). Piriformospora indica is a recently discovered 

root symbiont with no known fruiting body that has been 

shown to promote the growth of some plant hosts (Varma et al., 

1999). It is strongly supported as the sister group of Serendipita 

vermifera, but it does not form the mantle or hartig net associated 

with typical ectomycorrhizae. Finally, Multiclavula mucida 

is a basidiolichen (Gargas et al., 1995a; Lutzoni, 1997). 

Thus, the cantharelloid clade provides an excellent opportunity 

to study the evolution of symbioses in Homobasidiomycetes, 

including switches between diverse hosts and apparent shifts 

between parasitism and mutualism. 

2. Gomphoid-phalloid clade 

Monophyly of the gomphoid-phalloid clade is strongly 

supported in the core dataset analysis (bootstrap = 100%) 

but only weakly supported in the analysis of the full dataset 

(bootstrap = 69%). Nevertheless, the gomphoid-phalloid clade 

is strongly supported in other phylogenetic studies (Bruns 

et al., 1998; Hibbett et al., 2000; Humpert et al., 2001;


Binder & Hibbett, 2002; K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004). This 

relatively small clade contains an amazing diversity of gasteroid 

and hymenomycetous fruiting body forms, which have 

been discussed previously (Hibbett et al., 1997; Pine et al., 

1999; Humpert et al., 2001). Resupinate taxa in the gomphoidphalloid 

clade in the present study include Kavinia himantia 

and Ramaricium alboflavescens (Fig. 4). These results agree 

with those of Bruns et al. (1998), Humpert et al. (2001) and 

K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), who found strong support for 

the inclusion of Kavinia alboviridis in the gomphoid-phalloid 

clade. In contrast, the analysis of E. Langer (2002) did not resolve 

the gomphoid-phalloid clade as monophyletic and placed 

an isolate of ‘Kavinia sp.’ as the sister group of a clade including 

Coronicium alboglaucum and Scytinostroma portentosum, 

with strong support (bootstrap = 96%). Results of the present 

study suggest that these taxa are actually members of the 

russuloid clade (see below), suggesting either that Kavinia is 

polyphyletic (with one part in the russuloid clade) or the isolate 

of Kavinia studied by E. Langer (2002) was mislabelled. 

Ramaricium has a smooth, corticioid fruiting body, 

whereas the fruiting body of Kavinia is composed of spines 

arising from a loose subiculum (Eriksson & Ryvarden, 1976; 

Eriksson et al., 1981). Spores are variable in these genera, 

being either smooth or warted, and cyanophilous or not. The 

occurrence of warted cyanophilous spores as well as green 

staining reactions to iron salts suggest a relationship to Gomphaceae 

(Eriksson, 1954; Donk, 1964; Ginns, 1979). The basal 

position of Kavinia in Fig. 4 is consistent with the view that 

resupinate forms are plesiomorphic in the gomphoid-phalloid 

clade, but the internal topology of the group is weakly supported 

in this study, as was also the case in the analyses of Bruns 

et al. (1998), Humpert et al. (2001) and K.-H. Larsson et al. 

(2004). 

Ginns (1979) and Ginns & Lefebvre (1993) reported that 

K. alboviridis and Ramaricium spp. are saprotrophs that are 

associated with a white rot and often occur on wood that is 

dry and suspended off the ground. In contrast, Eriksson & 

Ryvarden (1976, p. 757) reported that the fruiting bodies of 

K. himantia occur on well decayed wood and are “often spreading 

over loose debris and soil”, and Eriksson et al. (1981, 

p. 1246) reported that in North Europe R. alboochraceum has 

been collected “only in the basal parts of moss carpets”. These 

observations suggest that Ramaricium and Kavinia have diverse 

ecologies. The fruiting behaviour reported by Eriksson 

and colleagues is consistent with a mycorrhizal habit (e.g. as in 

Tomentella), although there has been no demonstration (that 

we are aware of) that either Kavinia or Ramaricium forms 

mycorrhizae. 

3. Trechisporoid clade 

The trechisporoid clade was discovered after the ‘overview’ of 

Homobasidiomycetes by Hibbett & Thorn (2001). The trechisporoid 

clade is here represented by 20 nuc-lsu rDNA sequences, 

which originate from the studies of K.-H. Larsson 

(2001) and E. Langer (2002). In the present study and that 

of E. Langer (2002), the group received only moderate support 

(bootstrap = 69% and 76%, respectively), but in analyses 

by K.-H. Larsson (2001) and K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) the 

group was strongly supported (bootstrap > 95%). E. Langer 

(2002) found 100% bootstrap support for two subclades, which 

he called the paullicorticioid and subulicystidioid clades, and 

K.-H. Larsson (2001) found strong support for the separation 

of Trechispora and Porpomyces mucidus (bootstrap = 100%). 

In the present study, the groups identified by K.-H. Larsson 

(2001) and E. Langer (2002) are interdigitated, with the 

paullicorticioid clade sensu E. Langer (which includes only 

S. niveocremeum and ‘Sistotremastrum sp.’) placed as the sister 

group of the rest of the trechisporoid clade, with strong 

support (Fig. 4). 

The higher-level placement of the trechisporoid clade 

is very unstable. Depending on the analysis, the trechisporoid 

clade is placed in or near the polyporoid clade, russuloid clade, 

hymenochaetoid clade or Auriculariales (K.-H. Larsson, 2001; 

Hibbett & Binder, 2002; E. Langer, 2002; K.-H. Larsson et al., 

2004; Fig. 3). Two species in the trechisporoid clade, Sistotremastrum 

niveocremeum and Trechispora confinis, have been 

reported to have bipolar mating systems, which is a relatively 

rare condition in Homobasidiomycetes (Boidin & Lanquetin, 

1984; Nakasone, 1990a). The occurrence of bipolar mating 

systems in these species is consistent with the placement of 

the trechisporoid clade in the phlebioid clade (a subgroup of the 

polyporoid clade; see below), as suggested by some analyses 

(Fig. 4, tree 2). Unfortunately, only nuc-lsu rDNA sequences 

are available for the trechisporoid clade. Obtaining sequences 

of additional genes from this group, as well as more data on 

septal pore ultrastructure and mating systems, should be a priority. 

The trechisporoid clade is composed primarily of resupinate 

species with smooth, poroid or odontioid hymenophores, 

although some taxa in Trechispora become flabelliform 

or stipitate (K.-H. Larsson, 2001). Diverse anatomical 

characters occur in this clade, including hyphal cords and 

ampullate septa (Trechispora, Porpomyces), ampullate septa 

(Trechispora), rooted lyocystidia (Tubulicium), cystidia or 

subicular hyphae with various forms of crystalline ornamentation 

(Subulicystidium, Hyphodontia gossypina, Trechispora 

spp.) and basidia with six sterigmata (Sistotremastrum) (Keller, 

1985; G. Langer, 1994; K.-H. Larsson, 1994, 2001; E. Langer, 

2002; K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004). K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) 

stated that there are no obvious anatomical, physiological or 

ecological characters that unite this group. The occurrence of 

Hyphodontia gossypina in the trechisporoid clade is surprising 

because most species of Hyphodontia occur in the hymenochaetoid 

clade (see below). Based on cystidial morphology, 

E. Langer (2002) predicted that several other species of Hyphodontia 

will eventually be placed in the trechisporoid clade. One 

isolate in this study labelled ‘Trechispora farinacea’ (HHB 

9150) is placed in the euagarics clade (Fig. 4, Table 3). There 

are three other isolates of T. farinacea clustered in the trechisporoid 

clade, indicating that the isolate in the euagarics clade 

is mislabelled. 

4. Hymenochaetoid clade 

The hymenochaetoid clade includes the Hymenochaetaceae, 

several groups of resupinate and poroid fungi that 

have traditionally been classified in the Corticiaceae and

Polyporaceae sensu Donk (1964), and possibly certain pileatestipitate 

forms that have been classified in the Tricholomataceae 

(Cantharellopsis, Omphalina, Rickenella) and 

Podoscyphaceae or Corticiacae (Cotylidia) (Reid, 1965; 

Talbot, 1973; Eriksson & Ryvarden, 1975; Singer, 1986; 

Hibbett & Thorn, 2001; Moncalvo et al., 2002; Redhead et al., 

2002). The hymenochaetoid clade is weakly supported in both 

the core dataset analysis (bootstrap = 65%) and the analysis 

of the full dataset (bootstrap < 50%, Figs 1, 4), and a previous 

analysis of nuc-ssu rDNA alone failed to support monophyly 

of the group (Kim & Jung, 2000). Nevertheless, it received 

moderate support in the analysis of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004, 

bootstrap = 77–86%), and strong support in the four-region 

analyses of Binder & Hibbett (2002, bootstrap = 95–98%), 

albeit with a much reduced sample of taxa. 

The Hymenochaetaceae has long been regarded as a natural 

group with several unifying features (Oberwinkler, 1977), 

including the xanthochroic reaction (blackening in KOH), absence 

of clamp connections, production of a white rot and presence 

of setae in many species. The close relationship between 

the Hymenochaetaceae and taxa that lack this combination of 

features is surprising. Nevertheless, almost all the species of 

the hymenochaetoid clade investigated have imperforate parenthesomes, 

which is consistent with their grouping based on 

rDNA sequences (Traquair & McKeen, 1978; Moore, 1980, 

1985; E. Langer & Oberwinkler, 1993; Müller et al., 2000; 

Hibbett & Thorn, 2001). One other species of the hymenochaetoid 

clade, Coltricia perennis, was reported to have perforate 

parenthesomes (Moore, 1980) but was later shown to 

have imperforate parenthesomes (Müller et al., 2000). 

The one member of the hymenochaetoid clade that 

has been demonstrated to have perforate parenthesomes is 

Hyphoderma praetermissum (Hallenberg, 1990; E. Langer & 

Oberwinkler, 1993). K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) showed that 

H. praetermissum and H. guttuliferum are in the hymenochaetoid 

clade (however, their analysis also showed that other 

Hyphoderma spp. are in the polyporoid clade, see below). 

In contrast, the analysis of E. Langer (2002) suggested that 

H. praetermissum is outside of the hymenochaetoid clade and 

is the sister group of Resinicium bicolor. These results may 

be a consequence of the high weight given to parenthesome 

type in the combined analysis of molecular and morphological 

characters by E. Langer (2002). The analysis of K.-H. Larsson 

et al. (2004) and the present study suggest that Resinicium 

is in the hymenochaetoid clade (Fig. 4, Table 3). This study 

included one isolate labelled ‘H. praetermissum’ (L-16187) 

that was placed in the athelioid clade; this is almost certainly 

a mislabelled isolate (Fig. 4, Table 3). 

There are numerous resupinate forms within the Hymenochaetaceae. 

Most are in Hymenochaete, which is traditionally 

limited to taxa with a smooth hymenophore. 

Wagner & Fischer (2002a) showed that Hymenochaete is 

paraphyletic, and they suggested that Hydnochaete duportii 

and H. japonica (resupinate forms with hydnoid hymenophores) 

should be transferred to Hymenochaete, along with 

Stipitochaete damaecornis (pileate-stipitate with a smooth hymenophore), 

Cyclomyces fuscus, andC. tabacinus (pileate 

with a concentrically lamellate hymenophore). They also 


demonstrated that Hymenochaete tabacina is distantly related 

to other species of Hymenochaete, and they erected the segregate 

genus Pseudochaete to accommodate it. Results of 

the present study suggest that the resupinate species Hymenochaete 

corrugata and Hydnochaete olivacea are closely related 

to P. tabacina, and are therefore candidates for transfer 

to Pseudochaete (Fig. 4). Resupinate fruiting bodies also occur 

in other genera of Hymenochaetaceae (e.g. Phellinus, Fuscoporia 

and Asterodon), which indicates there have been numerous 

transformations between pileate and resupinate fruiting 

body forms in the Hymenochaetaceae, as described by 

Wagner & Fischer (2002a, b). 

The paraphyletic assemblage of ‘non-Hymenochaetaceae’ 

in the hymenochaetoid clade is dominated by resupinate 

forms, including Hyphodontia (by far the largest genus, with 

approximately 64 species; Kirk et al., 2001), Basidioradulum, 

Fibricium, Hyphoderma pro parte, Repetobasidium, Schizopora, 

Sphaerobasidium, Subulicium and Tubulicrinis (Fig. 4, 

Table 3). Hyphodontia and related taxa have been studied 

in detail using molecular and morphological approaches by 

E. Langer (1994, 1998, 2002) and E. Langer & Oberwinkler 

(1993). Most of the sequences of these taxa in this analysis 

were published by E. Langer (1998, 2002). Two sequences 

of Hyphodontia alutaria are included in this analysis. One 

isolate (GEL4553) is nested in a clade with H. pallidula and 

Schizopora flavipora, whereas the other (GEL2071) is grouped 

with Resinicium bicolor (FP-135104-Sp.). Both clades receive 

strong support (Fig. 4). Hyphodontia alutaria and H. pallidula 

are morphologically very similar (Eriksson & Ryvarden, 

1976), suggesting that isolate GEL2071 is mislabelled. 

There is considerable variation in cystidia in these groups, 

including variation in position (tramal vs. hymenial), shape 

(tubular, capitate, rooted, etc.), and presence or absence of 

crystalline incrustation (E. Langer, 1994). Cladistic analyses 

of morphological and molecular characters (E. Langer, 1994, 

1998, 2002) suggested that Hyphodontia is not monophyletic 

and that cystidial morphology can provide clues to relationships. 

The groups recognised by E. Langer (2002) are not 

resolved as monophyletic in this analysis (Fig. 4), suggesting 

that there may be more homoplasy in the evolution of anatomical 

features than previously realised. 

One noteworthy group in the hymenochaetoid clade 

is that containing Repetobasidium mirificum and Sphaerobasidium 

minutum (the latter represented by a sequence from 

E. Langer, 2002). Repetobasidium is distinguished by the production 

of ‘repeating’ basidia, which arise from inside the base 

of pre-existing spent basidia (Eriksson et al., 1981). The results 

of the present study support suggestions by Eriksson et al. 

(1981, 1984) that Sphaerobasidium and Repetobasidium are 

closely related, which were based on the shape of the basidia 

and the shared presence of capitate cystidia that are encrusted 

by oily exudates. 

Non-resupinate forms in the basal part of the hymenochaetoid 

clade in this study include Trichaptum and 

Oxyporus, which have been included in several studies using 

different isolates and molecular regions (Hibbett & Donoghue, 

1995; E. Langer, 2002; K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004; Wagner & 

Fischer, 2002b). The giant polypore of the Pacific Northwest


of the USA, Bridgeoporus nobilissimus, has also been shown 

to be a member of this group based on mt-ssu rDNA sequences 

(Redberg et al., 2003). Perhaps the most surprising taxa to be 

placed in the hymenochaetoid clade are certain minute agarics 

(Omphalina pro parte, Rickenella, Cantharellopsis) and 

stipitate stereoid forms (Cotylidia). Analyses by Moncalvo 

et al. (2002) and Redhead et al. (2002) group these taxa with 

representatives of the hymenochaetoid clade, but with weak 

bootstrap support (60–68%). Nevertheless, K.-H. Larsson 

et al. (2004) included a sequence of Rickenella fibula, which 

was also placed in the hymenochaetoid clade, with moderate 

support (bootstrap = 77–86%). 

Many members of the hymenochaetoid clade fruit on substantial 

woody substrates, produce a vigorous white rot, and 

act as saprotrophs or parasites of woody plants, including timber 

pathogens (e.g. Phellinus weirii, which causes laminated 

root rot) and the causal agent of the ‘black measles’ grapevine 

disease (Fomitoporia punctata; Larignon & Dubos, 1997). 

The pileate-stipitate polypore Coltricia perennis fruits on soil 

and has been reported to form ectomycorrhizae (Danielson, 

1984). We can only guess at the nutritional mode of many 

of the resupinate forms, however, especially those that produce 

ephemeral fruiting bodies on well-decayed wood (e.g. 

Repetobasidium mirificum) (Eriksson et al., 1981). Another 

ecologically enigmatic member of the hymenochaetoid clade 

is Bridgeoporus nobilissimus, which is associated with a brown 

rot but cannot be cultivated from spores (Burdsall et al., 1996; 

Redberg et al., 2003). The agaricoid and stipitate stereoid 

forms are associated with mosses and liverworts, indicating 

yet another nutritional mode in this clade (Redhead et al., 

2002). Finally, the resupinate forms Hyphoderma praetermissum 

and H. guttuliferum are reported to trap and kill nematodes 

by means of adhesive stephanocysts (Tzean & Liou, 1993). 

5. Polyporoid clade 

The polyporoid clade contains one of the major concentrations 

of resupinate Homobasidiomycetes, including true corticioid 

forms (those with smooth hymenophores), as well as 

resupinate polypores that have previously been classified in 

Poria s. lat. Other taxa in the polyporoid clade include pileate 

polypores, agarics (Lentinus, Panus), stipitate stereoid forms 

(Podoscypha) and the ‘cauliflower fungus’ Sparassis. Members 

of the group are ecologically important as wood decayers 

and timber pathogens. There are no documented mycorrhizal 

species. 

The monophyly of the polyporoid clade is controversial. 

Several single-gene analyses have suggested that the group is 

polyphyletic or paraphyletic, including studies based on nuclsu 

rDNA (Hibbett & Vilgalys, 1993; E. Langer, 2002; K.-H. 

Larsson et al., 2004), nuc-ssu rDNA (Kim & Jung, 2000) 

and mt-ssu rDNA (Hibbett & Donoghue, 1995). Nevertheless, 

in the four-region analyses of Binder & Hibbett (2002) and 

the present study (Fig. 1) the group has consistently been 

resolved as monophyletic. In analyses of the full dataset in 

the present study, the polyporoid clade is either monophyletic 

or paraphyletic. In the latter case, the trechisporoid clade is 

nested within the polyporoid clade (Figs 3, 4). 

Numerous subgroups have been resolved within the polyporoid 

clade and have been given informal and Linnaean names 

(Hibbett & Donoghue, 1995; Boidin et al., 1998; Kim & Jung, 

2000; Hibbett & Donoghue, 2001; Lim, 2001; E. Langer, 2002; 

K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004; de Koker et al., 2003). The polyporoid 

clade is here divided into three main groups, the core 

polyporoid clade, Antrodia clade and phlebioid clade. Relationships 

among these groups are not well resolved, and some 

‘residual’ taxa are not assigned to any group. The following 

discussion emphasises three suites of characters that have been 

important in polypore taxonomy: decay mode (white rot vs. 

brown rot), mating system (bipolar vs. tetrapolar), and hyphal 

system (mono-, di- or trimitic construction). 

The core polyporoid clade is equivalent to a clade that 

Hibbett & Donoghue (1995) recognised based on mt-ssu rDNA 

sequences, which they called “group 1” (also see Hibbett & 

Donoghue, 2001; Binder & Hibbett, 2002). It is also equivalent 

to the “polyporoid clade” sensu K.-H. Larsson et al. 

(2004), the Polyporaceae sensu Kim & Jung (2000) and the 

“Trametes group” of Lim (2001). The clades “polyporoid 14” 

and “poroid-dendrotheloid 24” of E. Langer (2002) are also 

in this group, as are the Perenniporiales and Trametales sensu 

Boidin et al. (1998). The core polyporoid clade is strongly 

supported in the analysis of the core dataset (bootstrap = 95%, 

Fig. 1), where it is represented by 16 species, but it is weakly 

supported in the analysis of the full dataset, where it is represented 

by 29 species (Fig. 4). 

Most taxa in the core polyporoid clade produce a white 

rot, are dimitic or trimitic, and have a tetrapolar mating system 

(Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986, 1987; Hibbett & Donoghue, 

1995, 2001; Fig. 4). Apparent exceptions include Diplomitoporus 

lindbladii, which is bipolar, and Wolfiporia cocos,which 

produces a brown rot (Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986, 1987). 

However, the analysis of Kim & Jung (2000) suggested that 

Wolfiporia cocos is not in the core polyporoid clade, but rather 

is closely related to Laetiporus sulphureus and Phaeolus schweinitzii 

(Cantharellus tubaeformis is also in this group in their 

analysis, which is surely an artefact). Wolfiporia cocos, L. sulphureus 

and P. schweinitzii are united by the production of a 

brown rot and the habit of growing as saprotrophs or pathogens 

on the roots and bases of living trees (Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 

1986, 1987), which suggests that they may be closely related. 

The isolate of ‘W. cocos’ in this analysis is strongly supported 

as a member of the polyporoid clade (Fig. 1), however, and it 

might be mislabelled. Thus, the placement of Wolfiporia cocos 

needs to be tested with additional isolates. 

In the analysis of the full dataset, Sparassis spathulata 

and S. brevipes are nested within the core polyporoid clade 

(Fig. 4). This result contradicts the results of the analysis of 

the core dataset (Fig. 1), which groups Sparassis and Laetiporus 

(Fig. 1), as well as a multi-gene analysis (mt-rDNA, 

nuc-rDNA and RNA polymerase II; Wang et al., 2004), which 

groups Sparassis, Phaeolus and Laetiporus. Sparassis spp. 

produce a brown rot and form fruiting bodies at the bases of 

living trees, as do Phaeolus and Laetiporus (and Wolfiporia). 

Therefore, the placement of Sparassis in the analysis of the 

core dataset (Fig. 1) is probably correct. Another problematical 

result in the core polyporoid clade concerns the isolate labelled 

‘Gloeophyllum trabeum’, which is nested with three isolates 

of Ganoderma spp. (Fig. 4). Gloeophyllum trabeum has a bipolar 

mating system, dimitic construction, brown context, and

produces a brown rot, all of which justify its placement in 

Gloeophyllum (Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986). It is likely that 

the ‘G. trabeum’ isolate included here is actually a Ganoderma 

that has been mislabelled. Another incongruous taxon 

in this clade is Physalacria inflata, which produces minute, 

capitate, monomitic fruiting bodies (Singer, 1986). There are 

no obvious characters that would support its strongly supported 

placement here as the sister group of Wolfiporia cocos 

(Figs 1, 4), which should be confirmed with additional isolates 

and genes. 

Resupinate forms in the core polyporoid clade include 

polypores (Diplomitoporus lindbladii, Grammothele fuligo, 

Junghuhnia subundata, Perenniporia medulla-panis and Wolfiporia 

cocos) and corticioid forms (Dendrodontia sp. and 

Dentocorticium sulphurellum). Dendrodontia sp. and Dentocorticium 

sulphurellum are strongly supported as sister taxa 

(Fig. 4), which is consistent with suggestions that Dendrodontia 

and Dentocorticium are closely related (Boidin & Gilles, 

1998; Fig. 4). Dentocorticium sulphurellum is dimitic with 

skeletal hyphae and has dendrohyphidia (Larsen & Gilbertson, 

1974). Hjortstam & Ryvarden (1980a, b) suggested that it resembles 

Scytinostroma, but that is in the russuloid clade (see 

below). 

Non-resupinate forms in the core polyporoid clade include 

Polyporaceae (e.g. Polyporus spp., Pycnoporus cinnabarinus, 

Lenzites betulina, Fomes fomentarius), Ganodermataceae, 

and Lentinus s. str. A clade containing the polypores 

Tyromyces chioneus (pileate) and Skeletocutis amorpha 

(resupinate to effused-reflexed) is resolved as the sister group 

of the core polyporoid clade (Fig. 4). This placement is weakly 

supported, but it is consistent with the possession of dimitic 

hyphal construction, tetrapolar mating system, and white rot 

in both T. chioneus and S. amorpha (Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 

1987). 

The term “Antrodia clade” was introduced by Hibbett & 

Donoghue (2001) for a group of 14 species that produce a 

brown rot (except Grifola frondosa, which produces a white 

rot) and have bipolar mating systems (as far as is known). The 

Antrodia clade contains several groups that have been recognised 

previously, including “group 6” of Hibbett & Donoghue 

(1995), the Fomitopsidaceae and Laetiporaceae sensu Kim & 

Jung (2000), the Fomitopsidales and Phaeolales sensu Boidin 

et al. (1998), the clade “polyporoid 15” of E. Langer (2002), 

and the “Brown rot group” of Lim (2001). In the present 

study, the Antrodia clade contains 26 species with support 

in the analysis of the full dataset. In the analysis of the core 

dataset, the entire Antrodia clade is again weakly supported 

(bootstrap = 65%), but the node above Antrodia carbonica 

(the sister group to the rest of the clade) is strongly supported 

(bootstrap = 97%; Fig. 1). 

At least two species in the Antrodia clade produce a 

white rot including Climacocystis sp. and Grifola frondosa 

(Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986). The apparent reversals to 

white rot in these taxa suggests that their brown rot precursors 

may have retained the genes for lignin-degrading enzymes 

(Hibbett & Donoghue, 2001). The white rot polypore Ischnoderma 

benzoinum is placed in the Antrodia clade in some 

topologies, but in others it is placed among other white rot species 

in the ‘residual’ polypores (Fig. 4; see below). The latter 


placement suggests a more parsimonious scenario for the evolution 

of decay modes. 

Six species in the Antrodia clade are reported to be 

tetrapolar, including Amylocystis lapponica, Climacocystis 

sp., Dacryobolus sudans, Parmastomyces transmutans, 

Oligoporus balsameus and O. caesius (Gilbertson & 

Ryvarden, 1986, 1987; Nakasone, 1990a). The mingled distribution 

of bipolar and tetrapolar mating systems in the Antrodia 

clade (Fig. 4) suggests that mating loci in this group are subject 

to rearrangements or ‘self-compatible’ mutations that can 

interconvert bipolar and tetrapolar systems (Hibbett & Thorn, 

2001). 

Resupinate forms in the Antrodia clade include the polypores 

Antrodia carbonica, A. xantha, Auriporia aurea, Parmastomyces 

transmutans, and the corticioid forms Dacryobolus 

sudans, Phlebia griseoflavescens and an isolate labelled 

‘dendrotheloid sp.’ from the work of E. Langer (2002). The 

placement of P. griseoflavescens away from other species of 

Phlebia in the phlebioid clade is striking, but Eriksson et al. 

(1981, p. 1122) indicated that it is “not a very typical member 

of the genus”. Data on decay type would be useful to evaluate 

its placement, because other species of Phlebia are associated 

with a white rot (Nakasone, 1990a; Ginns & Lefebvre, 1993). 

Another potentially problematical taxon in the Antrodia clade 

is Cyphella digitalis (type species of the Cyphellaceae). There 

are no obvious characters that support this placement, which 

should be tested. Finally, the analysis of K.-H. Larsson et al. 

(2004) suggested that the stereoid fungus Lopharia cinerescens 

is in the core polyporoid clade, whereas the analysis of Kim & 

Jung (2000) suggested that L. spadicea is in the phlebioid 

clade. If both results are correct, then Lopharia is polyphyletic. 

The delimitation of the phlebioid clade adopted here deviates 

slightly from that of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), who 

introduced the term. Here, it is based on the results of the 

analysis of the core dataset, which recovered a strongly supported 

clade (bootstrap = 91%) that contains 12 species, including 

taxa that Hibbett & Donoghue (1995, 2001) identified 

as “group 5” or the “Phlebia clade”. In the analysis of the full 

dataset, the phlebioid clade is a weakly supported group of 

44 isolates, which is the least inclusive clade that contains all 

12 species of the phlebioid clade resolved in the analysis of 

the core dataset (Figs 1, 4). The phlebioid clade overlaps with 

the Phanerochaetaceae and Steccherinaceae sensu Kim & Jung 

(2000), the Phanerochaetales and Phlebiales sensu Boidin et al. 

(1998), clades “phanerochaetoid 19.1” and “phlebioid 19.2” of 

E. Langer (2002), the “Irpex group”, “Phanerochaete group”, 

and “Phlebia group” of Lim (2001), and clades A-D (clade A 

was called the “Phanerochaete core group”) of de Koker et al. 

(2003). 

Members of the phlebioid clade are distinguished by 

the combination (in most taxa) of a monomitic construction, 

bipolar mating system and production of a white rot (Hibbett & 

Donoghue, 2001; K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004). Taxa that have 

been demonstrated to have bipolar mating systems include 

Bjerkandera adusta, Ceraceomyces serpens, Gelatoporia pannocincta, 

Lopharia spadicea, Phlebia centrifuga, P. radiata, 

P. rufa, P. subochracea, P. subserialis and P. tremellosa 

(Domanski, 1972; Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986; Nakasone,


1990a; Ginns & Lefebvre, 1993). However, Phlebia chrysocreas 

has been listed as “possibly tetrapolar”, and Irpex lacteus, 

Phanerochaete chrysosporium and P. sordida have been suggested 

to be homothallic (Nakasone, 1990a: 252). Hyphal anatomy 

is also variable in the phlebioid clade; Lopharia spadicea 

and Rigidoporus vinctus, which Kim & Jung (2000) showed 

to be in the phlebioid clade, are both dimitic with skeletal 

hyphae (Eriksson & Ryvarden, 1976; Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 

1987). 

The phlebioid clade contains many resupinate taxa, including 

the large corticioid genera Phanerochaete (63 spp.) 

and Phlebia (50 spp., Kirk et al., 2001), neither of which is resolved 

as monophyletic (Fig. 4). Other corticioid taxa include 

Byssomerulius sp., Ceraceomyces spp., Gloeoporus taxicola, 

Mycoacia spp., Phlebiopsis gigantea, Pulcherricium caeruleum 

and Scopuloides hydnoides (Fig. 4, Table 3). Eriksson 

and colleagues (Eriksson & Ryvarden, 1973, 1976; Eriksson 

et al., 1978, 1981, 1984) commented on similarities among 

many of these genera and Phlebia and Phanerochaete, particularly 

with regard to hymenial anatomy (with basidia forming 

a dense palisade). 

One potentially problematic isolate in the phlebioid 

clade is that of Lindtneria trachyspora, which is a resupinate 

form. Lindtneria trachyspora was expected to cluster with 

the false truffle Stephanospora caroticolor, but in this analysis 

S. caroticolor is placed in the athelioid clade (see below; 

Fig. 4). Lindtneria trachyspora and S. caroticolor share a characteristic 

coarse ornamentation of the spores (Oberwinkler & 

Horak, 1979; Jülich, 1981) and an uncommon chemical compound 

in fungi, 2-chlor-4-nitrophenol (Hellwig: 1999: 110). 

Moreover, analyses with additional L. trachyspora isolates 

and the S. caroticolor sequence from the present study (K.-H. 

Larsson, unpublished) suggest that L. trachyspora is closely related 

to S. caroticolor, as well as two species of the resupinate 

genus Cristinia. All three genera have a cyanophilous granulation 

in immature basidia and strongly cyanophilous spore 

walls. Based on these characters, Eriksson & Ryvarden (1975) 

suggested that Cristinia and Lindtneria might be related. Thus, 

it is likely that the isolate of ‘L. trachyspora’ used in this study 

is mislabelled. 

Other problematical results in the phlebioid clade concern 

the isolates labelled Athelia arachnoidea, A. epiphylla, Sistotrema 

muscicola and Peniophora sp., which were expected to 

be placed in the athelioid, cantharelloid and russuloid clades 

(see those sections). It is likely that all four are mislabelled. 

Resupinate polypores in the phlebioid clade include 

Ceriporia spp., Ceriporiopsis subvermispora and Gelatoporia 

pannocincta (Fig. 4). Pileate polypores include Bjerkandera 

adusta, Climacodon septentrionale, Hapalopilus nidulans and 

Rigidoporus vinctus (Fig. 4). In addition, Kim & Jung (2000) 

showed that Oxyporus latemarginatus is in the phlebioid clade 

and is closely related to Rigidoporus vinctus. Other studies 

have suggested that Oxyporus populinus is in the hymenochaetoid 

clade and is closely related to Bridgeoporus nobilissimus, 

which was formerly placed in Rigidoporus (Fig. 4; 

Hibbett & Donoghue, 1995; Burdsall et al., 1996; Wagner & 

Fischer, 2002b; Redberg et al., 2003). Collectively, these results 

suggest that Oxyporus and Rigidoporus s. lat. are poly- 

phyletic, with some species in the polyporoid clade and others 

in the hymenochaetoid clade. 

Twenty-three ‘residual’ species in the polyporoid clade 

could not be placed in the core polyporoid clade, Antrodia 

clade or phlebioid clade (Fig. 4). Resupinate forms among 

these taxa include the corticioid forms Hyphoderma spp., 

Hypochnicium spp., Candelabrochaete africana, Phanerochaete 

sanguinea, Phlebia bresadolae, andP. queletii, the 

hydnoid fungus Spongipellis pachyodon, and the polypores 

Antrodiella romellii, Ceriporiopsis gilvescens, Junghuhnia 

nitida and Physisporinus sanguinolentus (Fig. 4). Pileate taxa 

include polypores (Abortiporus biennis, Albatrellus syringae, 

Meripilus giganteus), agarics (Panus rudis) and stipitate stereoid 

forms (Podoscypha petalodes). These taxa overlap with 

the Steccherinaceae and Podoscyphaceae sensu Kim & Jung 

(2000), the Hyphodermatales and Podoscyphales sensu Boidin 

et al. (1998), and clades “hyphodermoid 20–23”, which formed 

a paraphyletic assemblage in the analysis of E. Langer (2002). 

In the present analysis, the residual taxa and phlebioid clade 

form a weakly supported monophyletic group (Fig. 4) that 

corresponds to the phlebioid clade sensu K.-H. Larsson et al. 

(2004). 

The Podoscyphaceae of Kim & Jung (2000) is a weakly 

supported group (bootstrap = 56%) that includes Cymatoderma 

caperatum (a stipitate stereoid form), along with Podoscypha 

petalodes and Panus rudis. Boidin et al. (1998) also 

found a close relationship between Podoscypha and Cymatoderma,aswellasHypochnicium 

cystidiatum. An isolate identified 

as C. caperatum is included in the present analysis, but 

it is placed in the russuloid clade (Fig. 4). Based on the results 

of Kim & Jung (2000) and Boidin et al. (1998), it is likely that 

the isolate of ‘C. caperatum’ in this study is mislabelled. 

With additional data, it is possible that some of the residual 

taxa will be placed in the phlebioid or core polyporoid 

clades, but probably not the Antrodia clade, which includes 

mostly brown rot taxa. For example, Hyphoderma spp., which 

are monomitic corticioid forms that have bipolar mating systems, 

may be correctly placed in the phlebioid clade, as suggested 

by K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004). The same could be said 

for Spongipellis pachyodon, which is also monomitic and bipolar 

(Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1987). In contrast, Junghuhnia 

nitida and Panus rudis are dimitic and have tetrapolar mating 

systems (Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986; Johnson & Methven, 

1994, for P. conchatus), and Hypochncium spp. are monomitic 

with tetrapolar mating systems (Nakasone, 1990a,dataonmating 

systems for Hypochnicium spp. were not taken from the 

same species sampled in the present study). The heterogeneity 

in anatomical and genetic characters in the residual polypores 

and the low bootstrap support for the node uniting them with 

the phlebioid clade (Figs 1, 4) are the reasons why these species 

are not classified in the phlebioid clade in this study. 

6. Gloeophyllum clade 

Gloeophyllum sepiarium was placed as an isolated species 

in analyses of homobasidiomycete phylogeny by Hibbett & 

Donoghue (1995), Hibbett et al. (1997) and Binder & Hibbett 

(2002), and the recent Dictionary of the Fungi 9th edn. lists 

Gloeophyllum as the sole genus in the Gloeophyllaceae (Kirk

et al., 2001). Several recent studies have identified close relatives 

of Gloeophyllum, however. Thorn et al. (2000) performed 

analyses of nuc-lsu rDNA sequences, which showed that 

G. sepiarium is in a clade with Heliocybe sulcata, Neolentinus 

lepideus, N. kauffmanii and N. dactyloides (bootstrap = 71%). 

Monophyly of these taxa was confirmed in a combined analysis 

of nuc-ssu and mt-ssu rDNA sequences by Hibbett & 

Donoghue (2001; G. sepiarium, N. lepideus, H. sulcata; 

bootstrap = 97%). Analyses of nuc-ssu rDNA sequences by 

Kim & Jung (2000) suggested that G. sepiarium is closely 

related to Donkioporia expansa, Boreostereum radiatum and 

Veluticeps berkeleyi, but with weak (52%) bootstrap support. 

In addition, the analysis of Kim & Jung (2000) placed Columnocystis 

abietina in the polyporoid clade, which contradicts 

the suggestion that Columnocystis and Veluticeps are synonyms 

(Hjortstam & Tellería, 1990; Nakasone, 1990b). Lim 

(2001) performed an analysis of nuc-ssu rDNA sequences that 

provided stronger support (bootstrap = 86%) for the monophyly 

of G. sepiarium, V. berkeleyi and B. radiatum (using the 

same sequences as in Kim & Jung, 2001), but the analysis did 

not include D. expansa. In the present study, the Gloeophyllum 

clade includes G. sepiarium, G. odoratum, N. dactyloides and 

V. berkeleyi (Fig. 4). Bootstrap support is weak (54%) but the 

resolution of this clade is consistent with the results of the 

studies cited previously. 

Members of the Gloeophyllum clade have diverse fruiting 

bodies, including pileate-sessile poroid to lamellate forms 

(Gloeophyllum), pileate-stipitate lentinoid agarics (Heliocybe, 

Neolentinus), resupinate polypores (Donkioporia) andresupinate 

to effused-reflexed stereoid forms (Boreostereum radiatum, 

Veluticeps berkeleyi). The unifying features of the 

group are ecological and anatomical. All members of the 

clade are wood decayers and are either dimitic with skeletal 

hyphae, or trimitic (Redhead & Ginns, 1985; Gilbertson & 

Ryvarden, 1986; Chamuris, 1988; Nakasone, 1990b). 

Gilbertson & Ryvarden (1986) commented on the anatomical 

similarity between Gloeophyllum and Donkioporia. 

Decay chemistries are variable in the Gloeophyllum 

clade. Most members of this group have been shown to produce 

a brown rot, including Gloeophyllum spp., Heliocybe 

sulcata, Neolentinus spp. and Veluticeps berkeleyi (Martin & 

Gilbertson, 1973; Redhead & Ginns, 1985; Gilbertson & 

Ryvarden, 1986; Nakasone, 1990a, b). The exceptions are 

Donkioporia expansa and Boreostereum radiatum, which are 

reported to produce a white rot (Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986; 

Nakasone, 1990a). The mode of decay in Boreostereum radiatum 

is somewhat ambiguous, however. Substrates associated 

with fruiting bodies have been found to show either brown rot 

or white rot, and cultural studies for the presence of extracellular 

oxidases have yielded conflicting results (Chamuris, 1988; 

Nakasone, 1990a). 

Mating systems are also variable in the Gloeophyllum 

clade. Neolentinus and Gloeophyllum are reported to have bipolar 

mating systems (Redhead & Ginns, 1985; Gilbertson & 

Ryvarden, 1986), whereas Veluticeps has a tetrapolar mating 

system (Martin & Gilbertson, 1973), which is very unusual for 

a brown-rot fungus (Ryvarden, 1991), and Boreostereum has 

been presumed to be homothallic (Chamuris, 1988; Nakasone, 


1990a). Thus, the Gloeophyllum clade provides an excellent 

system in which to study transformations between different 

mating systems and decay modes (as well as fruiting body 

forms) in closely related taxa. 

7. Thelephoroid clade 

This clade is equivalent to the order Thelephorales, which 

contains two families: Thelephoraceae, with angular and 

pigmented spores, and Bankeraceae, with hyaline ornamented 

spores (Stalpers, 1993). Donk (1964) suggested that the 

Bankeraceae and Thelephoraceae are not closely related, but 

later authors have united them (Jülich, 1981; Stalpers, 1993; 

Kirk et al., 2001). Analyses by K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) 

and Binder & Hibbett (2002) found moderately strong support 

for the monophyly of the Thelephoraceae plus Bankeraceae. 

The present study includes two species of Bankeraceae 

(Bankera fuligineoalba and Phellodon tomentosus) andten 

species of Thelephoraceae, which are strongly supported as a 

clade (bootstrap = 97%, Fig. 4). The Bankeraceae appears to 

be nested within the Thelephoraceae, but the basal nodes in 

the thelephoroid clade are not strongly resolved (Fig. 4). These 

results corroborate those of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), who 

also studied multiple exemplars of Bankeraceae and Thelephoraceae. 

The thelephoroid clade contains resupinate, clavarioid 

and pileate forms, with smooth, hydnoid or poroid hymenophores. 

Taxonomy of the resupinate forms has been studied 

by Kõljalg and colleagues (Larsen, 1968, 1974; Kõljalg, 1996; 

Kõljalg et al., 2000, 2001, 2002), using morphological and 

molecular approaches. Resupinate taxa in this analysis include 

Tomentella and Pseudotomentella. The pattern of relationships 

in Fig. 4 suggests that there have been multiple transformations 

between resupinate and erect forms in the thelephoroid 

clade. K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) sampled several resupinate 

Thelephoraceae that were not included in this study, including 

Tomentellopsis echinospora and Amaurodon viridis. 

Non-resupinate Thelephorales fruit on soil and have been 

regarded as ectomycorrhizal, whereas resupinate Thelephorales 

typically fruit on wood and have been interpreted as saprotrophic 

(e.g. Stalpers, 1993). However, molecular studies 

(Bruns et al., 1998; Taylor & Bruns, 1999; Kõljalg et al., 

2000, 2001, 2002) have demonstrated that many (perhaps all?) 

resupinate Thelephorales are ectomycorrhizal, often forming 

a dominant component of the mycorrhizal community. 

8. Corticioid clade 

This is a recently discovered clade (Boidin et al., 1998; K.- 

H. Larsson et al., 2004) that was not included in the overview 

of Homobasidiomycetes by Hibbett & Thorn (2001). 

One species in this group, Dendrocorticium roseocarneum, 

was included in the analysis of Binder & Hibbett (2002; 

also see Hibbett & Donoghue, 2001), where it was placed 

(without bootstrap support) as the sister group of the rest of the 

Homobasidiomycetes. Other taxa that are probably placed in 

the corticioid clade based on this and other studies include 

Corticium roseum, Cytidia salcina, Dendrocorticium polygonioides, 

Dendrothele maculata, Duportella tristicula, Erythricium 

laetum, Galzinia incrustans, Laetisaria fuciformis,


Limonomyces roseipellis, Marchandiomyces aurantiacus 

(teleomorph Marchandiobasidium aurantiacum; Diederichet 

al., 2003), M. corallinus, Punctularia strigoso-zonata, Vuilleminia 

comedens and V. macrospora (Boidin et al., 1998; 

Hallenberg & Parmasto, 1998; Lim, 2001; Sikaroodi et al., 

2001; Hibbett & Binder, 2002; E. Langer, 2002; K.-H. Larsson 

et al., 2004; V. Andjic, unpublished; P. DePriest et al., unpublished; 

Table 3). Members of the corticioid clade have been 

classified as the Vuilleminiales (Boidin et al., 1998; E. Langer, 

2002). K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) showed that Dendrothele 

maculata is a member of the corticioid clade, but they also 

cited unpublished analyses that suggest that Dendrothele is 

highly polyphyletic. In the present study, D. acerina and 

D. griseocana are placed in the euagarics clade, D. candida is 

placed in the russuloid clade, and an isolate labelled “dendrotheloid” 

from the study of E. Langer (2002) was placed in the 

polyporoid clade (Fig. 4). 

The delimitation of the corticioid clade proposed here 

(Table 3) conflicts somewhat with the results of Boidin et al. 

(1998) and P. DePriest et al. (unpublished). The ITS analysis 

of Boidin et al. (1998) suggested that (1) Erythricium laetum 

is closely related to Athelia decipiens (athelioid clade, contra 

K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004) and (2) Duportella tristicula and 

other Duportella species are nested in Peniophora (russuloid 

clade, contra Hallenberg & Parmasto, 1998). However, the 

analysis of Boidin et al. (1998) did support monophyly of a 

clade containing Corticium, Dendrocorticium, Punctularia 

and Vuilleminia, which is consistent with the present analysis 

and other studies cited above. Analyses by P. DePriest et 

al. (unpublished) based on nuclear rDNA sequences suggested 

that Rhizoctonia zeae and its teleomorph Waitea circinata 

(Ceratobasidiales) and Tretopileus sphaerophorus (mitosporic 

fungi) are in the corticioid clade. Waitea circinata is reported 

to have pinkish white basidiocarps and a probasidial stage 

(Roberts, 2003), which are also found in other taxa in the corticioid 

clade (see below). However, a study by Bruns et al. 

(1998) suggests that Waitea circinata is in the athelioid clade 

(see below), and evidence from multiple studies that were 

discussed previously suggests that other taxa of the Ceratobasidiales 

are in the cantharelloid clade. At this time, the placements 

of Waitea circinata and Tretopileus sphaerophorus must 

be regarded as unresolved. 

The sample of taxa in the corticioid clade in this study 

largely overlaps with that in the study of K.-H. Larsson et al. 

(2004). In both analyses, the group is moderately to strongly 

supported (bootstrap = 81% in this study, 93–96% in K.-H. 

Larsson et al., 2004). The higher-level position of the corticioid 

clade differs in this study and that of K.-H. Larsson 

et al. (2004), but in neither analysis is it placed as the sister 

group of the Homobasidiomycetes (as in the analysis of 

Binder & Hibbett, 2002). Diederich et al. (2003) showed that 

Marchandiobasidium has perforate parenthesomes, which is 

consistent with the view that the corticioid clade is not one 

of the basal clades of Homobasidiomycetes (contra Binder & 

Hibbett, 2002). In additon, Corticium roseum (as Laeticorticium 

roseum)andC. boreoroseum (as Laeticorticium lundellii) 

were also reported to have perforate parenthesomes (Keller, 

1997). 

There is no obvious synapomorphy for the corticioid 

clade. Most members of the group are resupinate, but Punctularia 

strigoso-zonata forms effused-reflexed fruiting bodies, 

Cytidia salicina forms fruiting bodies that are almost cupulate, 

and Marchandiomyces spp. are lichen-inhabiting asexual 

forms that produce sclerotia. Several taxa produce dendrohyphidia 

(branched hymenial hairs), including Corticium 

roseum, Cytidia salicina, Dendrocorticium polygonioides, 

D. roseocarneum, Dendrothele maculata, Punctularia 

strigoso-zonata and Vuilleminia comedens. In this analysis, 

the members of the corticioid clade that produce dendrohyphidia 

are strongly supported as a monophyletic group (Fig. 4), 

although that is not the case in the study of K.-H. Larsson et al. 

(2004). Another feature shared by some taxa in this group is 

the production of pink, red or orange pigments in the fruiting 

bodies, which occurs in Corticium roseum, Cytidia salicina, 

Erythricium laetum, Galzinia incrustans and Marchandiomyces 

spp. In addition, Laetisaria fuciformis and Limonomyces 

roseipellis produce characteristic pink-red hyphal masses on 

infected grasses, and Punctularia strigoso-zonata is reported 

to produce pink mycelial mats in culture (Nakasone, 1990a). 

The chemical nature of the pigments is not known. 

The corticioid clade is ecologically diverse. Most species 

are apparently saprotrophic and are associated with a white 

rot, primarily of angiospermous wood (Eriksson & Ryvarden, 

1975; Eriksson et al., 1981; Chamuris, 1988; Hjortstam et al., 

1988b; Nakasone, 1990a; Ginns & Lefebrve, 1993; Wu & 

Chen, 1993). Several taxa produce fruiting bodies on attached 

branches and standing trunks (e.g. Corticium roseum, Cytidia 

salicina, Dendrocorticium roseocarneum, Dendrothele maculata, 

Vuilleminia comedens) and have anatomical features that 

have been interpreted as adaptations for xeric habitats, including 

the production of a catahymenium and delayed basidial 

maturation (Eriksson & Ryvarden; 1975, 1976; Eriksson et al., 

1981; Chamuris, 1988; Hjortstam et al., 1988b). These features 

may allow the fruiting body to remain viable during periods 

of drought and rapidly produce basidiospores during brief intervals 

when moisture is available (Hallenberg & Parmasto, 

1998). Other taxa in the corticioid clade do not inhabit exposed 

substrates. For example, Eriksson & Ryvarden (1975) 

reported that Erythricium laetum (which was sampled by 

K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004) occurs under moist conditions on 

decayed wood and branches of deciduous trees, dead leaves 

and wet soil. Similarly, Galzinia incrustans occurs on decayed 

wood in moist environments (Eriksson & Ryvarden, 1975). 

Biotrophic nutrition also occurs in the corticioid clade. 

Laetisaria fuciformis (which was included in the core dataset 

analysis, but inadvertently excluded from the other analyses; 

Fig. 1) is a plant pathogen that causes ‘red thread’ disease 

of turfgrasses (Stalpers & Loerakker, 1982). Analyses by 

V. Andjic (unpublished) based on ITS sequences suggest that 

L. fuciformis is closely related to Limonomyces roseipellis, 

which causes a similar ‘pink patch’ disease of turfgrasses. An 

unusual ecological habit is found in Marchandiomyces aurantiacus 

and M. corallinus, which are parasites of corticolous 

or saxicolous (rock-inhabiting) lichens (Etayo & Diederich, 

1996; Sikaroodi et al., 2001; Diederich et al., 2003). Finally, 

Burt (1926) reported that Erythricium laetum occurs on living

mosses (as well as wood), which suggests that it may also have 

the capacity for biotrophic nutrition. 

9. Russuloid clade 

The russuloid clade includes agaricoid forms, polypores, coral 

fungi, hydnoid fungi and many resupinate taxa. Most members 

of this group are saprotrophic, but there are also ectomycorrhizal 

species (Russulaceae, Albatrellus pro parte) and 

timber pathogens (Heterobasidion, Echinodontium). Some lignicolous 

species in the russuloid clade form symbiotic associations 

with insects, including woodwasps (associated with 

Amylostereum; Slippers et al., 2001) and bark beetles (associated 

with Entomocorticium; Hsiau, 1996; Klepzig et al., 2001). 

Many members of the russuloid clade have spores with amyloid 

walls or ornamentations and gloeoplerous hyphae and cystidia. 

Based on these characters, Donk (1964, 1971) suggested that 

there are relationships among many of the species now placed 

in this clade, and Oberwinkler (1977) grouped many of them 

in the order Russulales (also see Stalpers, 1996). 

In the present study, the russuloid clade is represented 

by 85 isolates (82 species). The clade is weakly supported 

in the analysis of the full dataset, but strongly supported in 

the analysis of the core dataset (bootstrap = 90%, 23 species; 

Figs 1, 4). Groups within (or equivalent to) the russuloid clade 

that have been resolved in other molecular phylogenetic studies 

with a broad taxonomic focus include the Russulales, Hericiales, 

Lachnocladiales and Peniophorales sensu Boidin et al. 

(1998), the Stereaceae, Hericiaceae, and Amylostereaceae 

sensu Kim & Jung (2000), the clade “russuloid 12” of 

E. Langer (2002) and the “russuloid clade” and “peniophoroid 

clade” sensu Lim (2001). Several phylogenetic studies have 

focused on groups within the russuloid clade, including Aleurodiscus 

s. lat. and related taxa (Wu et al., 2001), Stereum and 

Xylobolus (Lim, 2001), Peniophora (Hallenberg & Parmasto, 

1998), the Gloeocystidiellum porosum-clavuligerum complex 

(Larsson & Hallenberg, 2001), and the Russulaceae 

(S. L. Miller et al., 2001, 2002). Many mt-lsu rDNA, nuclsu 

rDNA, and ITS sequences of ectomycorrhizal Russulaceae 

have been analysed in ecological studies (e.g., Taylor & Bruns, 

1997; Bruns et al., 1998; Bergemann & Miller, 2002). 

By far the most thorough phylogenetic study of the russuloid 

clade as a whole is that of E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson 

(2003), who studied relationships among 127 isolates that represent 

c. 120 species. The dataset emphasised resupinate taxa, 

many of which have been traditionally classified in Gloeocystidiellum 

s. lat. Based on analyses of nuc-lsu rDNA, 5.8S 

rDNA, and ITS sequences, E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003) 

divided the russuloid clade into 13 major clades, which were 

labelled using the notation convention adopted by Moncalvo 

et al. (2002; e.g. ‘/russulales’). The following discussion is 

organised according to the classification of E. Larsson & 

K.-H. Larsson (2003), which should be consulted for detailed 

information about relevant characters and prior taxonomy. 

/stereales. This group contains lignicolous resupinate, 

discoid and effused-reflexed to pileate taxa that have been 

classified in the Stereaceae s. str.(Stereum, Xylobolus), Aleurodiscus 

s. lat. and its segregates (e.g. Acanthophysium), and 

Gloeocystidiellum s. lat. The latter is represented in this study 


only by Gloeocystidiellum leucoxanthum, but many other 

Gloeocystidiellum segregates were included in this group by 

E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003; e.g. Boidinia). The /stereales 

is moderately to strongly supported in this analysis 

(core dataset bootstrap = 100%, full dataset bootstrap = 79%), 

and was strongly supported by E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson 

(2003; bootstrap = 97%), as well as Kim & Jung (2000; 

bootstrap = 93%). 

/hericiaceae. This clade includes resupinate (Dentipellis 

separans), effused-reflexed (Laxitextum bicolor) and pileate 

(Hericium spp.) forms, all with spores that have amyloid echinulae 

(Stalpers, 1996). An isolate labelled as ‘Cymatoderma 

caperatum’ appears in this clade in the present study, but that 

is most likely an artefact, as discussed previously (see above). 

In other respects, the results of the present study (Figs 1, 4) 

agree with those of E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003) for this 

clade. 

/bondarzewiaceae and /amylostereaceae. There are minor 

differences between the results of the present study and that 

of E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003) with respect to these 

groups. The present study recovered a moderately supported 

(bootstrap = 88%) clade that includes the stereoid, effusedreflexed 

species Amylostereum chailettii, A. laevigatum and 

Laurilia sulcata, and the pileate, hydnoid form Echinodontium 

tinctorium (Fig. 4). These taxa all have incrusted cystidia, 

which is consistent with the view that they are closely related 

(Eriksson & Ryvarden, 1973; Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986; 

Chamuris, 1988). However, the study of E. Larsson & K.-H. 

Larsson (2003) grouped Amylostereum spp. with the coral 

fungus Artomyces (= Clavicorona) pyxidatus in the /amylostereaceae 

(bootstrap = 73%), and placed L. sulcata and 

E. tinctorium with the polypores B. berkeleyi and H. annosum 

in the /bondarzewiaceae (bootstrap = 78%). Here, 

Bondarzewia spp. and H. annosum form a paraphyletic group 

from which /albatrellus is derived (Fig. 4). In contrast, 

Bondarzewia and Heterobasidion were strongly supported 

(bootstrap = 91%) as monophyletic in the analysis of Bruns 

et al. (1998). Both cause white rot in the heartwood, roots, 

and bases of living trees, and H. annosum is a serious timber 

pathogen (Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986). 

/albatrellus. The analysis of the full dataset recovered a 

strongly supported clade (bootstrap = 96%) that includes the 

pileate-stipitate polypores Albatrellus pro parte and Polyporoletus 

sublividus (A. syringae is in the polyporoid clade, however; 

Fig. 4). Some species of Albatrellus have amyloid spores 

and gloeoplerous hyphae (the latter are also found in P. sublividus), 

which is consistent with their placement in the russuloid 

clade, as suggested by Stalpers (1992). 

The corticioid forms Dendrothele candida and Xenasma 

rimicola form a paraphyletic group at the base of the /albatrellus 

clade in this study (Fig. 4), but this placement is weakly 

supported and is not suggested by any obvious morphological 

characters. E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003) found that a 

similar species, Pseudoxenasma verrucisporum (which shares 

similarly ornamented spores and pleurobasidia), is in the russuloid 

clade, but could not identify its closest relatives (Eriksson 

et al., 1981; Hjortstam et al., 1988b; Stalpers, 1996). It is possible 

that X. rimicola and P. verrucisporum are closely related,


and it would be desirable to include them in the same analysis. 

There are no obvious characters that support the placement of 

D. candida as a close relative of Albatrellus and Polyporoletus 

(Fig. 4), although it also has amyloid spores (Lemke, 1964b, 

as Aleurocorticium candidum). 

Another resupinate form that may be related to /albatrellus 

is Byssoporia terrestris, which was sampled by Bruns et al. 

(1998). Byssoporia terrestris has smooth inamyloid spores 

and no gloeoplerous system (Eriksson & Ryvarden, 1973, as 

Byssocorticium terrestre), which is unusual for a member of 

the russuloid clade. Nevertheless, it is reported to be ectomycorrhizal, 

as are Albatrellus ovinus and A. fletti (Kropp & 

Trappe, 1982; Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986; Agerer et al., 

1996). Other russuloid species of Albatrellus and P. sublividus 

may also be ectomycorrhizal, but this is controversial 

(Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986; Ginns, 1997; Albatrellus 

syringae in the polyporoid clade is thought to be lignicolous). 

Neither the present analysis or that of E. Larsson & 

K.-H. Larsson (2003) suggest that the russuloid species of 

Albatrellus are closely related to the Russulaceae (Figs 1, 4). 

Therefore, the Albatrellus group, including B. terrestre and 

P. sublividus, probably represents an independent origin of the 

ectomycorrhizal habit in the russuloid clade. 

/aleurocystidiellum. The present study finds strong support 

(bootstrap = 100%) for the monophyly of Aleurocystidiellum 

disciformis and A. subcruentatum, which were segregated 

from Aleurodiscus sensu lato (Lemke, 1964a), but do not resolve 

their closest relatives with confidence (Fig. 4). These 

results mirror those of E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003). 

/auriscalpiaceae. This weakly suported clade includes 

agaricoid (Lentinellus spp.) and hydnoid taxa (Auriscalpium, 

Gloiodon; Fig. 4). E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003) recovered 

a moderately supported clade (bootstrap = 86%) with 

the same genera represented by more species and isolates 

than in the present study, plus Dentipratulum bialoviesense. 

Gloiodon and Dentipratulum are resupinate or effusedreflexed, 

whereas the others are pileate. O. K. Miller (1971) 

found that Lentinellus cochleatus produces a coralloid fruiting 

body when cultured at low temperatures, which suggests that 

developmental programs in this clade may be quite labile. 

/gloeocystidiellum I and /russulales. One of the most 

striking findings of E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003) is that 

the Russulaceae is nested within a clade of resupinate taxa traditionally 

classified in Gloeocystidiellum s. lat. The same result 

is obtained in the present study. Here, a clade equivalent to 

/gloeocystidiellum I (G. porosum and two unidentified isolates) 

is moderately supported as the sister group of /russulales 

(Fig. 4). The latter is strongly supported (bootstrap = 100%) 

and includes Gloeocystidiellum aculeatum, which agrees with 

the findings of E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003), who 

sampled additional resupinate taxa (Gloeopeniophorella spp., 

Boidinia spp.) that form a paraphyletic group in /russulales. 

It is remarkable that the Russulaceae, with its agaricoid, gasteroid 

and pleurotoid forms, is derived from simple corticioid 

forms. It remains an open question whether the switch to an 

ectomycorrhizal nutritional mode in Russulaceae (including 

pleurotoid forms, Henkel et al., 2000) is either a cause or 

consequence of the shift from corticioid to pileate forms. 

/gloeocystidiellum II. The clade /gloeocystidiellum II 

is here represented only by a single isolate of G. clavuligerum, 

whereas E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003) included 

five isolates representing G. clavuligerum, G. bisporum and 

G. purpureum. In both studies the closest relatives of /gloeocystidiellum 

II are not resolved with confidence (Fig. 4). 

/peniophorales. In the present analysis, the /peniophorales 

clade includes resupinate taxa that have been classified 

in the Lachnocladiaceae (Asterostroma, Dichostereum, 

Scytinostroma, Vararia; Reid, 1965; Hallenberg, 1985) and 

Corticiaceae s. lat. (Peniophora nuda, Amphinema byssoides 

and Coronicium alboglaucum; Fig. 4). However, in the analysis 

of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), Amphinema byssoides is 

placed in the athelioid clade and C. alboglaucum is placed in 

the euagarics clade, suggesting that the positions of these taxa 

here could be artefacts. 

Monophyly of the /peniophorales is weakly supported in 

the present study, but it was strongly supported in the analysis 

of E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003, bootstrap = 95%). The 

latter study included the same groups that were sampled here 

(excluding A. byssoides and C. alboglaucum) as well as several 

corticioid taxa representing Gloeocystidiellum s. lat. (Gloeocystidiellum 

irpiscescens, Gloiothele spp. Vesiculomyces citrinus), 

Confertobasidium spp. and Metulodontia nivea. Also 

included in their study was an unidentified isolate of Lachnocladium, 

which is a group of tropical coralloid fungi that may 

be related to the tropical cantharelloid genera Dichantharellus 

and Dichopleuropus (Reid, 1965; Corner, 1966, 1970). Except 

for these last three genera, the /peniophorales contains 

only resupinate or effused-reflexed forms. Nevertheless, the 

/peniophorales is very diverse in anatomical characters, including 

species with smooth or ornamented, amyloid or inamyloid 

spores, with or without a gloeoplerous system, and with 

or without dextrinoid dichohyphidia or asterohyphidia 

(Hallenberg, 1985; Stalpers, 1996; E. Larsson & K.-H. 

Larsson, 2003). The latter have been regarded as diagnostic 

for the Lachnocladiaceae, which is not resolved as monophyletic 

in this study or that of E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson 

(2003). 

The higher-level relationships of the Lachnocladiaceae 

have been controversial. Donk (1964) classified the genera 

of the Lachnocladiaceae in two subfamilies of the Hymenochaetaceae, 

the Vararioideae (Vararia and Lachnocladium) 

and Asterostromatoideae (Asterostroma), but placed 

Scytinostroma in the Corticiaceae. He suggested that the 

Asterostromatoideae could be a link between the Vararioideae 

and Hymenochaetoideae (Hymenochaetaceae in the present 

sense). This idea may have been based in part on the presence 

in Asterodon ferruginosum of ‘asterosetae’, which are stellate 

structures that resemble the asterohyphidia of Asterostroma 

(Corner, 1948). Müller et al. (2000) showed that A. ferruginosum 

has imperforate parenthesomes, which is consistent 

with its placement in the Hymenochaetaceae. Later, Wagner & 

Fischer (2001) used nuc-lsu rDNA sequences to study relationships 

of A. ferruginosum and Asterostroma spp., which they 

found to be nested in the Hymenochaetaceae and Lachnocladiaceae, 

respectively. This result severed the last possible link 

between the Lachnocladiaceae and Hymenochaetaceae, and

supported Oberwinkler’s (1977) suggestion that the Lachnocladiaceae 

is related to the Russulales. 

10. Bolete clade and Jaapia 

The bolete clade (= Boletales) is a major contingent of ectomycorrhizal 

fungi in the Homobasidiomycetes that includes 

a considerable diversity of fruiting body morphologies. Resupinate 

forms among the Boletales are brown-rotting saprotrophs 

and parasites with preference for coniferous woods – 

deciduous trees are less frequently attacked. Some species 

like the dry rot fungi Serpula lacrymans and S. himantioides 

decay timber and cause significant structural damage in buildings 

(Jennings & Bravery, 1991). Coniophora puteana and 

other Coniophora spp. are commonly called ‘cellar fungi’ 

and require higher humidity levels (hence the name wet rot) 

to colonise and decay wooden structures in basements (see 

Ginns, 1982, for details). Nilsson & Ginns (1979) demonstrated 

that the brown-rotters among the Boletales, including 

stipitate-pileate forms, show a particular degrading mode by 

breaking down pure cellulose in vitro, despite the lack of cellulolytic 

activity which is a typical reaction of brown-rotting 

fungi when pure cellulose is offered as substrate. Exceptions 

in Nilsson & Ginns’ study were Pseudomerulius aureus and 

Tapinella atrotomentosa, which retrieved negative test results 

for cellulase. The nutritional mode of T. atrotomentosa is still 

somewhat ambiguous. Kropp & Trappe (1982) found that rotten 

logs on which T. atrotomentosa fruits contain abundant 

conifer roots. They traced the mycelium of a T. atrotomentosa 

fruiting body to nearby western hemlock roots, which were 

covered with the same mycelium. A pure culture synthesis of 

hemlock seedlings and T. atrotomentosa mycelium was not 

successful. Kämmerer et al. (1985), however, used a different 

system testing T. atrotomentosa and Jaapia argillacea positive 

for cellulase, suggesting that both fungi are brown-rotters 

(so-called ‘Coniophoraceae rot’). 

The bolete clade is monophyletic, as shown in various 

nuc-lsu rDNA analyses (Jarosch, 2001; Binder & Bresinsky, 

2002; K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004), and it receives 93–99% bootstrap 

support in the present study (Figs 1, 4). It is supported 

in other studies using different loci, for example, atp6 amino 

acid sequences provided bootstrap support of 99% (Kretzer & 

Bruns, 1999) and mitochondrial large subunit sequences moderately 

supported the bolete clade by 70% (Bruns et al., 1998). 

The euagarics clade was strongly supported (94%) as the sister 

group of the bolete clade (bootstrap = 100%) using a four region 

dataset (nuc-ssu, nuc-lsu, mt-ssu, mt-lsu rDNA) including 

a 82 species sampling of Homobasidiomycetes (Binder & 

Hibbett, 2002). The present study sampled 30 Boletales species 

including 14 resupinate species mostly drawn from Bresinsky 

et al. (1999), which are distributed in the genera Coniophora, 

Leucogyrophana, Pseudomerulius, Serpula (Coniophorineae) 

and Hydnomerulius (Paxillineae). 

The Jaapia clade, consisting of a single species, J. argillacea, 

was discovered in the study of Hibbett & Binder (2002) 

and it is placed as the sister group of the euagarics clade, bolete 

clade and athelioid clade (Figs 1, 4). Jaapia has been listed 

in the Coniophoraceae (e.g. Jülich, 1981) based on resupinate, 

cream coloured fruiting bodies having a farinous texture, 


light yellow and smooth, fusiform, thick-walled, cyanophilous 

spores. Hallenberg (1985), however, found the combination 

of morphological characters not convincing enough to place 

Jaapia in the Coniophoraceae and left the genus among the 

corticioid fungi. Chemical findings that could assist placing 

Jaapia are lacking as yet, since Besl et al. (1986) did not 

detect any pigments in a Jaapia culture including pulvinic 

acids and derivatives, which are the major pigments of the 

Boletales. If the placement of Jaapia argillacea in the present 

study using the same isolate as Kämmerer et al. (1985) and 

Besl et al. (1986) is correct, then this might suggest that resupinate 

fruiting bodies, lack of pigments, and saprotrophy 

with a Coniophoraceae-type rot (or some combination) are 

plesiomorphic conditions for the euagarics clade, bolete clade 

and athelioid clade. 

The most comprehensive study on resupinate Boletales is 

the study of Jarosch (2001) using multiple isolates of 15 species 

in five genera. Jarosch (2001) received 96% (neighbourjoining) 

bootstrap support for the Coniophorineae, conflicting 

with the results of the present study and the studies of 

Bresinsky et al. (1999) and Binder & Bresinsky (2002), in 

which the Coniophorineae was not resolved as monophyletic 

(bootstrap < 50%). The studies of Bruns et al. (1998) and 

Kretzer & Bruns (1999) also suggest that the Coniophorineae 

is polyphyletic, but neither study included Leucogyrophana 

spp. Besl et al. (1986) analysed the occurrence of pulvinic 

acids and their derivatives and additional compounds in the 

Coniophoraceae and noticed that the distribution of pigments 

is not only complex, but some unique chemical patterns correspond 

to the pigments found in stipitate-pileate members 

of the Boletales. These findings suggested several morphological 

transformations from resupinate to stipitate-pileate fruiting 

bodies and that Leucogyrophana sensu Ginns (1978) is 

polyphyletic. Based on secondary metabolites, Besl et al. 

(1986) predicted relationships between Serpula lacrymans and 

Austropaxillus statuum (syn. Paxillus statuum), Hydnomerulius 

pinastri (syn. Leucogyrophana pinastri) andPaxillus 

involutus, L. mollusca and Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, and 

L. olivascens and Tapinella panuoides. Except for the latter 

hypothesis, all the other relationships assumed by Besl et al. 

(1986) received strong support in several phylogenetic studies 

(Bresinsky et al., 1999; Jarosch, 2001; Jarosch & Besl, 

2001). Recently, Jarosch (2001) showed another remarkable 

morphological transformation between Coniophora spp. and 

two southern hemisphere species, ‘Paxillus’ chalybaeus from 

New Caledonia and ‘Paxillus’ gymnopus from Colombia, 

with paxilloid habit (stipitate-pileate, lamellate hymenophore 

and involute margin), nested within the Coniophora clade 

(bootstrap = 100%). 

The present study supports in addition a close relationship 

of Pseudomerulius aureus and Tapinella spp. with 86%, 

which is controversial to the placement of Tapinella in Jarosch 

(2001), where it is nested between Coniophora and Leucogyrophana 

(bootstrap = 81%). Little is known about the pigments 

of P. aureus (Gill & Steglich, 1987) and microscopical characters, 

except for the identical rhizomorph type of P. aureus 

and T. panuoides (Agerer, 1999, p. 33), do not indicate its 

relationship to Tapinella. K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) found


support > 80% for P. aureus and Bondarcevomyces taxi as 

a basal clade in the Boletales, not including Tapinella spp. 

Bondarcevomyces taxi is a brown-rot fungus with a bright orange 

pileus and a poroid hymenophore that has been separated 

from Hapalopilus (polyporoid clade) by Parmasto & Parmasto 

(1999) and it was provisionally placed in the Sparassidaceae. 

Additional phylogenetic analyses support a Pseudomerulius– 

Bondarcevomyces–Tapinella clade (= Tapinellaceae) with values 

> 90% (Binder, unpublished). 

11. Athelioid clade 

This group, which is exclusively composed of resupinate 

forms, was identified by K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004). In their 

analysis, the athelioid clade is moderately to strongly supported 

(bootstrap = 77–97%) and includes Athelia epiphylla, 

A. decipiens, Piloderma byssinum, P. lanatum, Tylospora asterophora, 

Byssocorticium pulchrum, Athelopsis subinconspicua 

and Amphinema byssoides. This is probably the 

same clade that Boidin et al. (1998) identified based 

on ITS sequences, which they called the Atheliales. The 

Atheliales sensu Boidin et al. (1998) included Amyloathelia 

amylacea, Leptosporomyces roseus and Fibulomyces 

septentrionalis, which are resupinate taxa with 

an athelioid form (Eriksson & Ryvarden, 1975, 1976; 

Hjortstam & Ryvarden, 1979), as well as Athelia epiphylla 

and A. arachnoidea. However, the analysis of Boidin 

et al. (1998) placed A. decipiens as a close relative of Erythricium 

laetum, which K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) found to be 

in the corticioid clade (see above). In the present analysis, the 

athelioid clade receives moderate support (bootstrap = 75%) 

and is represented only by Athelia arachnoidea, A. fibulata 

and an isolate labelled ‘Hyphoderma praetermissum’ (Fig. 4), 

which is probably mislabelled, as noted previously. In addition, 

two isolates in the present study labelled ‘Athelia epiphylla’ 

and ‘A. arachnoidea’ were placed in the phlebioid clade, and 

one isolate labelled ‘Amphinema byssoides’ was placed in the 

russuloid clade (Fig. 4). Based on the results of K.-H. Larsson 

et al. (2004), these three isolates are also probably mislabelled 

(see Table 3 for sources). 

Both the present analysis and that of K.-H. Larsson et al. 

(2004) resolved a monophyletic group that includes the athelioid 

clade, bolete clade and euagarics clade, albeit with weak 

bootstrap support. The analysis of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) 

placed the athelioid clade as the sister group of the bolete 

clade, but all analyses in the present study placed it as the 

sister group of the euagarics clade (Figs 1, 3, 4). Similarly, 

the analysis of Bruns et al. (1998) placed a clade containing 

Piloderma croceum and Waitea circinata as the sister group 

of a clade containing most of the euagarics clade (except the 

Hygrophoraceae), although again bootstrap support was weak. 

Taken together, the results of these studies suggest that the 

athelioid clade is closely related to the euagarics clade, and 

may be its sister group. 

The athelioid clade clusters with a paraphyletic assemblage 

that includes an odd mixture of resupinate 

(Radulomyces molaris, Phlebiella sp.), coralloid-clavarioid 

(Lentaria albovinacea, Deflexula subsimplex), pileate (Plica- 

turopsis crispa) and hypogeous gasteroid (Stephanospora caroticolor) 

forms (Fig. 4). Bootstrap support for this group 

is weak in the analysis of the full dataset (Fig. 4), but in 

the core dataset analysis the clade containing S. caroticolor, 

Athelia arachnoidea and ‘H. praetermissium’ receives moderately 

strong support (bootstrap = 91%; Fig. 1). Results from 

K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) and additional analyses with an extended 

dataset (K.-H. Larsson, unpublished) indicate that the 

species that cluster here with the athelioid clade may represent 

several independent clades, including one clade that contains 

S. caroticolor and the resupinate forms Lindtneria trachyspora 

and Cristinia spp. (see above, under phlebioid clade). In the 

present analyses these clades are too sparsely sampled to be 

resolved, however. Additional data are needed to determine if 

this heterogeneous assemblage is an artefact. 

Members of the athelioid clade share a resupinate habit 

with a typically ‘loose’ monomitic hyphal construction, often 

with rhizomorphs (Eriksson & Ryvarden, 1973; Eriksson 

et al., 1981; Hjortstam et al., 1988b). Spores in the group 

are generally smooth and ellipsoid to globose, but Tylospora 

has angular spores that are smooth or warted, for which reason 

it has been placed in the Thelephorales (Stalpers, 1993). 

In contrast to its morphological simplicity, the athelioid 

clade displays great diversity in ecological strategies. Species 

of Amphinema, Byssocorticium, Piloderma and Tylospora 

enter into ectomycorrhizal symbioses, and often form a major 

component of mycorrhizal communities (Danielson & Pruden, 

1989; Ginns & Lefebvre, 1993; Erland, 1996; Bradbury et al., 

1998; Eberhardt et al., 1999; Kernaghan et al., 2003; Lilleskov 

et al., 2002; Shi et al., 2002). Athelia spp. are not known to 

form mycorrhizae, but they enter into other kinds of biotrophic 

associations. Athelia arachnoidea (and its Rhizoctonia anamorph) 

acts as a lichen parasite or a pathogen of carrots in 

cold storage, and also functions as a saprotroph on leaf litter 

(Arvidsson, 1976; Gilbert, 1988; Adams & Kropp, 1996). 

Athelia epiphylla has been suggested to form lichens with 

cyanobacteria, and it also acts as a primary decayer of leaf and 

needle litter and is associated with white rot of Populus tremuloides 

(Jülich, 1978; Lindsey & Gilbertson, 1978; Larsen et al., 

1981). Finally, Matsuura et al. (2000) described a symbiosis 

involving Athelia sp. (as Fibularhizoctonia sp.) and termites, 

in which the fungus forms sclerotia that mimic termite eggs. 

Worker termites handle the sclerotia as if they were eggs, and 

the presence of sclerotia in termite nests appears to enhance 

egg viability. The benefit to the fungus (if any) is not clear, but 

might include dispersal to new substrates (Matsuura et al., 

2000). Reconstructing the pattern of shifts in ecological 

strategies in Athelia is hampered by the difficulty of species 

identification in this group (Adams & Kropp, 1996). Indeed, 

the results of the present analysis and others cited previously 

indicate that isolates of Athelia spp. are often mislabelled. 

12. Euagarics clade 

With over 8400 species, the euagarics clade is by far the largest 

of the eight major clades recognised by Hibbett & Thorn 

(2001). The majority of taxa are agaricoid and correspond 

(in large part) to the suborder Agaricineae of Singer (1986)

and its many gasteroid derivatives. It is now recognised that 

there are also scattered clavarioid forms in the group (Hibbett 

et al., 1997; Pine et al., 1999; Hibbett & Thorn, 2001; K.-H. 

Larsson et al., 2004; Moncalvo et al., 2002). The most comprehensive 

phylogenetic study of the euagarics clade so far 

is that of Moncalvo et al. (2002), which included 877 isolates 

represented by nuc-lsu rDNA sequences. The only species that 

approaches a ‘resupinate’ form in that study is Gloeostereum 

incarnatum, which produces sessile conchate fruiting bodies 

that may be resupinate at the point of attachment (Petersen & 

Parmasto, 1993). Several other studies have shown that certain 

resupinate forms are in the euagarics clade (Kim & Jung, 

2000; Lim, 2001; E. Langer, 2002; K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004), 

but the sampling of agaricoid taxa has generally been too limited 

to address the placements of the resupinate forms on a 

fine scale (but see Langer, 2002, which included 54 species 

from the euagarics clade). The present study included a large 

sample (206 sequences) of non-resupinate forms in the euagarics 

clade, most of which are from the studies of Moncalvo 

et al. (2000, 2002). 

The euagarics clade receives weak bootstrap support in 

the analyses of both the core and full datasets (Figs 1, 4). 

Nevertheless, the general topology, with the Hygrophoraceae 

as the sister group of the ‘core euagarics clade’, is consistent 

with the strongly supported results of Binder & Hibbett 

(2002). One problematical aspect of the results here concerns 

the placements of the unclassified taxa that form a paraphyletic 

group at the base of the athelioid clade, including the corticioid 

forms Phlebiella sp. and Radulomyces molaris, both represented 

by sequences from the work of E. Langer (2002; also see 

Hibbett & Binder, 2002; Fig. 4). In the analysis of E. Langer 

(2002) these taxa were nested in the euagarics clade, although 

their closest relatives were not identified with confidence. Similar 

results were obtained by K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), who 

found a well supported (bootstrap > 80%) clade containing 

three species of Radulomyces, Phlebiella pseudotsugae and 

Coronicium alboglaucum, which was weakly supported as the 

sister group of the clavarioid forms Typhula phacorrhiza and 

Macrotyphula juncea. Taken together, the results of these analyses 

suggest that Radulomyces, Phlebiella and Coronicium 

are nested within or closely related to the euagarics clade. It 

would be valuable to obtain additional sequences of these taxa, 

which at present are represented only by nuc-lsu rDNA sequences. 

Other than their corticioid habit, there are no obvious 

characters that suggest a close relationship among Radulomyces, 

Phlebiella and Coronicium (K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004). 

At least four groups of resupinate forms are nested in the 

core euagarics clade (Fig. 4). One of these groups is an odd 

assemblage including two Lachnocladiaceae (Vararia ochroleucum, 

V. gallica), Lopharia mirabilis and Trechsipora farinacea 

(Fig. 4). In this and other studies (Lim, 2001; K.-H. 

Larsson et al., 2004), sequences of these genera are placed in 

the russuloid clade, polyporoid clade and trechisporoid clade 

(respectively), suggesting that their placement in the euagarics 

clade is erroneous, possibly reflecting misidentifications. 

Dendrothele. Two isolates of the polyphyletic corticioid 

genus Dendrothele (D. griseocana, D. acerina) arenestedin 


a moderately supported (bootstrap = 83%) clade that also includes 

cyphelloid and aquatic Homobasidiomycetes (Fig. 4). 

This result is consistent with the results of the study of 

E. Langer (2002), which was the source of the sequence of 

D. acerina and several of the cyphelloid forms. In that analysis, 

these taxa were grouped in clade “cyphelloid 35”. A 

clade including Schizophyllum commune and the cupulate Auriculariopsis 

ampla is weakly supported as the sister group of 

the Dendrothele-cyphelloid clade (Fig. 4), which is consistent 

with the results of Binder et al. (2001) and Nakasone (1996). 

Chondrostereum, Gloeostereum and Cystostereum. The 

effused-reflexed, stereoid fungus Chondrostereum purpureum 

and Gloeostereum incarnatum are moderately supported 

(bootstrap = 85%) as a monophyletic group. These results are 

consistent with those of Moncalvo et al. (2002) who showed 

that G. incarnatum is in the euagarics clade, and Kim & Jung 

(2000), E. Langer (2002), K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), and 

Lim (2001), who showed that C. purpureum is in the euagarics 

clade. The studies of Kim & Jung (2000) and Lim (2001) 

also suggested that the resupinate to effused-reflexed stereoid 

fungus Cystostereum murraii is in this group. 

In contrast to Kim & Jung (2000) and Lim (2001), the analysis 

of Boidin et al. (1998) suggested that Cystostereum murraii 

is in the phlebioid clade (Phanerochaetales). Cystostereum 

murraii is dimitic, whereas C. purpureum is monomitic, which 

might seem to support the results of Boidin et al. (1998). Nevertheless, 

both taxa have hyphae in the context with swollen, 

bladderlike ends. The arrangement of these cells in the two 

species is strikingly similar in the illustrations of Eriksson & 

Ryvarden (1973, 1975), which supports the conclusions of 

Kim & Jung (2000) that C. purpureum and C. murraii are 

closely related. In C. murraii the vesicles contain oil droplets. 

The “embedded gloeocystidia” described in G. incarnatum 

(Petersen & Parmasto, 1993, p. 1214) might be homologous. 

Moncalvo et al. (2002) showed that Cheimonophyllum 

candidissum, which is a minute pleurotoid agaric, is the sister 

group of G. incarnatum, and named the resulting clade 

the /gloeostereae. The sister group of the /gloeostereae included 

the pileate-stipitate agarics Hydropus scabripes, Baeospora 

myosura and B. myriadophylla (Tricholomataceae s. 

lat.), which were classified as the /baeosporoid clade. The 

sister group relationship of /gloeostereae and /baeosporoid is 

weakly supported in this analysis, which includes many of the 

same sequences as in Moncalvo et al. (2002). Nevertheless, if 

this topology is correct, then it suggests a transformation series 

from pileate-stipitate agarics (Baeospora spp., H. scabripes), 

to pleurotoid agarics (C. candidissimum), conchate-partly resupinate 

forms with a reduced hymenophore (G. incarnatum), 

and finally effused-reflexed or fully resupinate stereoid forms 

(C. purpureum, C. murraii). 

Cylindrobasidium. Three isolates of the corticioid genus 

Cylindrobasidium, including two from the study of E. Langer 

(2002) are strongly supported (bootstrap = 100%) as a monophyletic 

group (Fig. 4). As in the analysis of E. Langer (2002), 

Cylindrobasidium is nested in a clade that includes the agaric 

genera Armillaria and Oudesmansiella (many others are included 

in the present study; Fig. 4). The analysis of K.-H.


Larsson et al. (2004) weakly supported monophyly of Cylindrobasidium 

laeve and Chondrostereum purpureum. Ifthe 

taxa that were not sampled by K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) 

were pruned from the trees produced in the present study, then 

C. laeve and C. purpureum would again be resolved as sister 

taxa (Fig. 4). 

One problematical result concerns a sequence of the corticioid 

fungus Bulbillomyces farinosus, which is placed in a 

clade with the clavarioid forms Typhula phacorrhiza and Macrotyphula 

juncea, the pleurotoid agarics Phyllotopis nidulans 

and Pleurocybella porrigens, and the cyphelloid Henningsomyces 

candidus (Fig. 4). This group is equivalent to the clade 

“collybioid, clavarioid 28” that was resolved in the study of 

E. Langer (2002). The monophyly of Bulbillomyces, Typhula 

and Macrotyphula is strongly supported (bootstrap = 98%), 

but there are no characters that would support this placement. 

Bulbillomyces farinosus produces a sclerotial anamorph 

(Aegerita candida), and in this regard it superficially resembles 

Typhula phacorrhiza, which also produces sclerotia, 

but the sclerotia differ in size, colour and anatomical features 

(Remsberg, 1940; Jülich, 1974). Analyses with alternative sequences 

of Bulbillomyces farinosus derived from two different 

cultures and one Aegerita candida isolate suggest that Bulbillomyces 

farinosus is closely related to Hypochnicium spp. in 

the residual polypore clade, which is a more explicable position 

(K.-H. Larsson unpublished, M. Binder & D. Hibbett, 

unpublished). 

Finally, K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) resolved a weakly 

supported clade containing two resupinate polypores (Anomoporia 

bombycina and A. kamtschatica) and four corticioid 

fungi (Amylocorticium spp., Ceraceomyces tessulatus, 

Hypochniciellum subillaqueatum), which was placed as the 

sister group of the rest of the euagarics clade. None of these 

species were sampled here, although three different species of 

Ceraceomyces were included in both the present study and 

that of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) and found to be in the phlebioid 

clade (see above). Analyses with additional sequences 

of Ceraceomyces tessulatus and Anomoporia spp., including 

A. albolutescens, have upheld the phylogenetic position suggested 

in Larsson et al. (2002) (K.-H. Larsson, unpublished). 

In contrast, the analysis of Kim & Jung (2000) placed 

A. albolutescens in the Antrodia clade. This placement would 

be consistent with the reported production of a brown rot by 

A. albolutescens (Gilbertson & Ryvarden, 1986), but it is inconsistent 

with the results of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004) which 

are based on multiple isolates. It is likely that the ‘A. albolutescens’ 

isolate studied by Kim & Jung (2000) is mislabelled. 

Bootstrap support for the basal nodes of the euagarics clade 

was weak in the study of K.-H. Larsson et al. (2004), so it 

remains unclear whether these last resupinate taxa are actually 

members of the euagarics clade. Even if they are, the fraction 

of species that are resupinate in the euagarics clade is much 

lower than in other major groups of Homobasidiomycetes 

(c. 4% in this dataset). One possible explanation for this pattern 

is that the abundance of resupinate forms in groups such as the 

hymenochaetoid clade, russuloid clade and cantharelloid clade 

reflects a plesiomorphic condition in these more basal groups 

(Hibbett & Binder, 2002). Alternatively, the rate of reversals to 

resupinate forms (or the rate of speciation of resupinate forms) 

may be lower in the euagarics clade than in other clades of 

Homobasidiomycetes. 

Conclusions and future directions 

Resupinate forms are scattered throughout all of the major 

clades of Homobasidiomycetes, as well as heterobasidiomycetes. 

Some of the recently recognised groups of Homobasidiomycetes, 

such as the athelioid clade, corticioid clade and 

trechisporoid clade (K.-H. Larsson et al., 2004), and the lone 

taxon Jaapia argillacea, are composed entirely, or almost entirely, 

of resupinate forms (Fig. 4). The present study analysed 

one of the larger phylogenetic datasets in fungi to date (but see 

Moncalvo et al., 2002; Tehler et al., 2003), but it still included 

less than half of the genera of corticioid fungi recognised by 

Hjortstam (1987). As sampling of resupinate taxa continues, 

it is possible that new major clades will be discovered. Such 

discoveries could aid analyses of higher-level phylogenetic relationships 

of Homobasidiomycetes by identifying taxa that 

break up internodes deep in the tree (including those that determine 

the boundary between the Homobasidiomycetes and 

heterobasidiomycetes), many of which have proven difficult to 

resolve (Binder & Hibbett, 2002). 

Designing a sampling scheme for the remaining resupinate 

taxa will be challenging. For many groups, there are 

few anatomical characters to provide clues to higher-level relationships, 

and the monophyly of individual genera is often 

questionable. For example, Hyphoderma is now understood 

to include species in the hymenochaetoid clade and polyporoid 

clade. Similarly, species of Veluticeps and Columnocystis, 

which were once proposed as generic synonyms, occur 

in the Gloeophyllum clade and polyporoid clade. These examples 

are particularly dramatic, but numerous other genera 

of resupinate fungi have been found to be polyphyletic in this 

and other studies cited previously (e.g. Sistotrema, Hyphodontia, 

Schizopora, Phlebia, Phanerochaete, Aleurodiscus, Gloeocystidiellum, 

etc.). Many of the older genera have been split 

into smaller, putatively natural groups, but even some of these 

have been found to be polyphyletic (e.g. Boidinia; E. Larsson & 

K.-H. Larsson, 2003). Thus, an exemplar-based approach to 

sampling could lead to significant underestimates of the phylogenetic 

diversity of resupinate Homobasidiomycetes. 

Ultimately, it will be necessary to construct phylogenybased 

classifications that include all the species of resupinate 

and non-resupinate Homobasidiomycetes. Moreover, it will be 

necessary to include multiple accessions of individual species, 

because they can reveal misidentifications (which the present 

study shows are common), as well as provide insight into 

biogeography and intraspecific variation. 

To develop comprehensive phylogenetic classifications 

will require either simultaneous analyses of very large datasets, 

or analytical approaches that reconcile overlapping datasets, 

such as supertree methods (Sanderson et al., 1998). Simultaneous 

analyses have certain advantages, not the least of which 

is that they permit the estimation of branch lengths, which are 

necessary for molecular clock studies and maximum-likelihood 

analyses of character evolution. However, simultaneous

analyses of large datasets are computationally challenging, 

especially if model-based methods are employed. Using the 

Parsimony Ratchet, the present study succeeded in analysing 

a 656-OTU dataset with six-parameter weighted parsimony, 

but even this large dataset included only about one fifth of the 

3130 nuc-lsu rDNA sequences of Homobasidiomycetes that 

are available in GenBank as of this writing. 

Given the limitations of current computer hardware and 

algorithms, a rigorous simultaneous analysis of all the available 

homobasidiomycete sequences would be very difficult. 

To develop detailed phylogenetic hypotheses within individual 

clades will require more focused efforts, as exemplified by the 

studies of E. Larsson & K.-H. Larsson (2003) in the russuloid 

clade and Moncalvo et al. (2002) in the euagarics clade. At 

the same time, analyses of multigene datasets of exemplars 

from the major groups will be needed to estimate higher-level 

relationships. In the present study and that of Binder & Hibbett 

(2002), a dataset with four mitochondrial and nuclear rDNA 

regions was used for this purpose. It should be a priority to 

sequence these same regions in exemplars of the major clades 

that have so far been studied only with single genes, such as 

the athelioid clade and trechisporoid clade. Of course, not all 

nodes will be resolved with rDNA alone (e.g. the polyporoid 

clade; Binder & Hibbett, 2002), so exploration of proteincoding 

loci will also be necessary to resolve the phylogenetic 

relationships of resupinate Homobasidiomycetes. 

Acknowledgements 

The authors are indebted to their colleagues and the institutions who 

provided cultures, specimens, DNA samples, sequence data, and access 

to unpublished results, including Vera Andjic, Helmut Besl, Paula 

DePriest, Margit Jarosch, Urmas Kõljalg, Phillip Franken, the USDA 

Forest Products Laboratory, Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures 

and Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures. This research was supported 

by National Science Foundation awards DEB-9903835 (to 

DSH) and DEB-0128925 (to DSH and MB). 

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