The best fitting model for hymenophore configuration evolution was estimated to be the ER (AIC = 93.25), compared with ARD (AIC = 107.55). In the supplemental figures, we present estimates of the hymenophore type in Polyporus s.l. based on stochastic mapping of ancestral states. Probabilities are also showed in (Supplementary Fig. 1). The stochastic mapping of this hymenophore transition presented high probabilities of internal nodes, but low probabilities of back-bone nodes. Furthermore, the mapping indicated that the ancestral state for Mycobonia clade is estimated to have had angular pores (0.92), as well as for Neofavolus (1), as previously shown by Seelan et al. (2015). For the Lentinus/Polyporellus clade we found that the probability for circular pores was low, only 0.22, though in contrast Seelan et al. (2015) did estimate them to be circular. Polyporus s. l. likely had angular pores (0.72). The number of transitions from circular to angular pores was estimated to be four, while the number from angular to circular was three, and there was a single transition from angular to stereoid which was placed in the Mycobonia clade.
Taxonomy
Mycobonia Pat., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 10(2): 76 (1894), emend. Palacio & Westphalen.
= Pseudofavolus Pat., Essai Tax. Hyménomyc. (Lons-le-Saunier): 80 (1900)
Type species: Mycobonia flava (Sw.) Pat.
Basidiomata annual, solitary to imbricate, pileate, flabelliform, cucullate, conchate-flabelliform, subsessile with a very short lateral stipe to sessile; flexible to hard when fresh, hard and boney consistency when dry; pilear surface glabrous, smooth to tessellate (when poroid), pale ochraceous to brownish ochraceous; context thin up to 3 mm, homogeneous, beige. Hymenophore surface poroid or stereoid with hyphal pegs; when poroid pores large angular to circular, 0.2–3 mm wide, dissepiments entire to lacerated; tubes short up to 4 mm long; when stereoid with sterile prominent hyphal pegs up to 180 µm long. Stipe reduced to subdiscoid, attached to substrate by a basal disc, concolorous with the pilear surface, to absent (Fig. 2).
Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae 2–5 µm wide, with clamp connections, hyaline, thin-walled, scanty, CB−, IKI−; skeletal-binding hyphae 2–6 µm wide, densely interwoven, thick-walled, flexuous, densely branched and interwoven dominating throughout the basidiomata, CB − to CB+, IKI − to slightly dextrinoid in mass. Pileipellis not well differentiated. Cystidia not seen. Dendrohypidia present in the dissepiments. Basidia clavate, with four sterigmata. Basidiospores large, up to 25 × 11 µm, ellipsoid to cylindrical, thin-walled, smooth, hyaline, IKI−, CB− (Fig. 3).
Ecology and distribution: growing on fallen branches of unidentified angiosperms, causing white-rot; known from tropical to subtropical areas.
Comments: Mycobonia is characterized by the pileate, cucullate and boney consistency of the basidiomata with the hymenophore being stereoid with hyphal pegs or poroid with shallow tubes pores (Fig. 2), and large basidiospores (Fig. 3).
Mycobonia cucullata (Mont.) Palacio & R.M. Silveira, comb. nov.
MycoBank: MB841083
≡ Favolus cucullatus Mont., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 17: 125 (1842)
≡ Pseudofavolus cucullatus (Mont.) Pat., Essai Tax. Hyménomyc. (Lons-le-Saunier): 81 (1900)
≡ Hexagonia cucullata (Mont.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 31(6): 332 (1904)
≡ Polyporus miquelii var. cucullatus (Mont.) Corner, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 78: 90 (1984)
= Favolus curtipes Berk. & M.A. Curtis, Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 1: 234 (1849)
= Polyporus curtipes (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Ryvarden, Syn. Fung. (Oslo) 5: 213 (1991)
Description: Basidiomata annual, solitary to imbricate, laterally short stipitate, dimidiate to subsessile. Pileus 15–40 mm from the base to margin of the pileus, 30–60 mm wide, and 2 mm thick; dimidiate to flabelliform, conchate-flabelliform when dry, flexible when fresh, very tough when dry; surface glabrous, smooth or slightly tessellate, not zoned, beige to pale ochraceous, slightly reddish brown towards the margin when dry; margin entire to fimbriate, involute when dry, pale ochraceous; context of the pileus up to 2 mm wide, homogeneous, beige. Hymenophore surface poroid, light brown, pores 2–3 per mm, angular to circular; dissepiments entire to lacerated; tubes up to 1 mm long. Stipe reduce subdiscoid up to 2 mm long, concolorous with pilear surface, or practically non-existent and attached to the substrate by a basal disc up to 10 mm in diam.
Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae 2–4 µm wide, with clamp connections, hyaline, thin-walled, scanty, CB−, IKI−; skeletal-binding hyphae 2–6 µm wide, densely interwoven, thick-walled, flexuous, branched 4–6 times, branches tapering to filiform tips 0.5 µm wide, dominating throughout the basidiomata, CB−, IKI − to slightly dextrinoid in mass in the dissepiments. Hyphal pegs absent. Pileipellis not well differentiated. Cystidia not seen; hymenium with some final tips of skeletal-binding hyphae among the basidia. Basidia 25–36 × 7–14 µm, mostly clavate, with four sterigmata. Basidiospores 14–20 × 5–7 µm (m = 17.5 × 5.7 µm) Q = 2.3–4 (m = 3; n = 100/5), narrowly cylindrical to sub-cylindrical, thin-walled, smooth, hyaline, IKI−, CB−.
Ecology and distribution: growing on fallen branches of unidentified angiosperms; known from Argentina (Robledo and Rajchenberg 2007 as Polyporus curtipes), Brazil (Baltazar and Gibertoni 2009 as Pseudofavolus cucullatus), Costa Rica (Velázquez and Ruíz-Boyer 2005 as Pseudofavolus cucullatus), Cuba (type locality), and Mexico (Nava-Mora and Valenzuela (1997) as Polyporus curtipes).
Specimens examined: Brazil, Paraná, Foz do Iguaçu, Parque Nacional do Iguaçu, 25°37'21.1"S, 54°28'11.0"W, 22 Jan 2017, leg. M. Palacio 204, (ICN197323). — Cuba, leg. Ramón de la Sagra & C. Wright (PC) (holotype of Pseudofavolus cucullatus).
Comments: Mycobonia cucullata can be distinguished by the hexagonal pores 2–3 per mm, short tubes up to 0.7 mm long, thinner context up to 0.2 mm wide, and by the narrowly cylindrical basidiospores. This species has been recorded in South America under the name Favolus curtipes Berk. & M.A. Curtis (Silveira and Wright 2005). However, according to the protologue of F. curtipes, this species can be differentiated from M. cucullata by the smaller and less rigid pores, fleshier context and darker pilear surface (Hooker 1849).
Mycobonia miquelii (Mont.) Palacio & Westphalen, comb. nov.
MycoBank: MB841084
≡ Polyporus miquelii Mont., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3 4: 357 (1845)
≡ Hexagonia miquelii (Mont.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 6: 361 (1888)
≡ Scenidium miquelii (Mont.) Kuntze, Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 3(3): 516 (1898)
≡ Pseudofavolus miquelii (Mont.) Pat., Essai Tax. Hyménomyc. (Lons-le-Saunier): 81 (1900)
= Favolus induratus Berk., Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser. 2 9: 197 (1852)
= Hexagonia indurata (Berk.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 31(6): 332 (1904)
= Favolus daedaleoides Speg., Revista Argent. Hist. Nat. 1(2): 108 (1891)
Description: Basidiomata annual, solitary, laterally short stipitate to subsessile. Pileus 20–40 mm from the base to margin of the pileus, 20–60 mm wide, and 2–4 mm thick; flexible when fresh, very tough and convex when dry, flabelliform, conchate-flabelliform; surface glabrous, tessellate bullate-reticulate, not zoned, pale ochraceous to brownish ochraceous with reddish-brown spots mainly towards the margin; margin entire to lacerate, wavy, incurved when dry, reddish-brown; context of the pileus 2–3 mm wide, homogeneous, beige. Hymenophore surface poroid, pale ochraceous to brownish ochraceous, pores 1–1.5 per mm, circular to angular; dissepiments entire to lacerated; tubes up to 4 mm long. Stipe reduce subdiscoid up to 2 mm long, concolorous with pilear surface, or practically non-existant and attached to substrate by a basal disc up to 7 mm in diam.
Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae 2–5 µm wide, with clamp connections, hyaline, thin-walled, scanty, CB−, IKI−; skeletal-binding hyphae 2–6 µm wide, densely interwoven, thick-walled, flexuous, branched 4–7 times, branches tapering to filiform tips − 1 µm wide, dominating throughout the basidiomata, CB−, IKI−. Hyphal pegs absent. Pileipellis not well differentiated. Cystidia not seen; hymenium with some final tips of skeleto-binding hyphae between the basidia. Basidia 20–35 × 9–15 µm, mostly clavate, with four sterigmata. Basidiospores 11–17 × 5.5–8.5 µm (m = 14 × 6.5 µm) Q = 2.3–2.8 (m = 2.4; n = 100/5), sub-cylindrical, thin-walled, smooth, hyaline, IKI−, CB−.
Ecology and distribution: growing on fallen branches of unidentified angiosperms; common species originally described from Surinam and also registered from Argentina, Brazil (Capelari and Maziero 1988), Costa Rica (Velázquez and Ruíz-Boyer 2005), and the Dominican Republic.
Specimens examined: Brazil, Espírito Santo, Santa Tereza, Rebio Augusto Ruschi, Trilha da Cachoeira, 13 Dez 2016, leg. A. Magnago 1305 (ICN197324); Rio Grande do Sul, Viamão, Parque Estadual de Itapuã, 21 Apr 2017, leg. G. Alves-Silva 1120 (ICN197320); ibid, leg. G. Alves-Silva 1121 (ICN197321); ibid, leg. G. Alves-Silva 1122, (ICN197322); Guaiba, Fazenda Maximiniano, 11 Nov 2017, leg. V. Oliveira-Garcia 213 (ICN197423); Porto Alegre, Morro Santana, 14 Dez 2007, leg. M. Westphalen 85/07 (ICN134137); Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Parque Ecológico Córrego Grande, 27°35'55''S, 48°30'36''W, 10 May 2018, leg. M. Monteiro 160 (FLOR); São Paulo, Cananéia, Parque Estadual da Ilha do Cardoso, Trilha do Poço da Anta, 7 Jan 2019, leg. M.P. Drewinski 463, (SP499085); ibid., Parque Estadual das fontes do Ipiranga, 23°38'36.1"S, 46°37'21.6"W, 28 Mar 2019, leg. M.P. Drewinski 459 (SP499083).
Comments: Large and angular pores, 1–1.5 per mm, and a tessellate pilear surface with a reddish-brown margin, which differentiates M. miquelii from other Mycobonia.
Mycobonia yuchengii Yuan Yuan & Palacio, sp. nov. Figure 4.
MycoBank: MB841082
Type. — China, Hainan Province, Lingshui County, Diaoluoshan Forest Park, on fallen angiosperm trunk, 13 Jun 2014, leg. Dai 13584A (BJFC017323).
Etymology: — Yuchengii (Lat.): in honor of the Chinese mycologist, Prof. Yu Cheng Dai.
Description: Basidiomata annual, pileate, attached to substrate with a short laterally stipe-like base, leathery when fresh, becoming hard or rigid upon drying. Pileus dimidiate to flabelliform, projecting up to 3.5 cm, 4 cm wide, 1.5 mm thick at the center. Pilear surface cream to pale yellow-brown, glabrous, azonate, sometimes radiate-striate; margin acute, wavy when dry. Pore surface yellow-brown to umber; pores irregular, sometimes hexagonal, 1–3 per mm; dissepiments thin, entire to slightly lacerate. Context pale yellow-brown, hard corky, thin, less than 0.5 mm thick. Tube layer concolorous with the poroid surface, up to 2 mm long. Stipe short, concolorous with the pileal surface, up to 0.5 cm long, often forming a small disc at the base.
Hyphal system dimitic; generative hyphae bearing clamp connections; skeletal-binding hyphae dominant, thick-walled, frequently branched, slightly dextrinoid, especially at dissepimental edge, CB+, tissue unchanged in KOH. Contextual generative hyphae infrequent, hyaline, thin-walled, rarely branched, 2.5–3.5 µm in diam; contextual skeletal-binding hyphae dominant, hyaline, thick-walled with a wide to narrow lumen, some of them sub-solid, flexuous, frequently branched, tightly interwoven, 2.5–4 µm in diam. Tramal generative hyphae scanty, hyaline, thin-walled, rarely branched, 2–3.5 µm in diam,; tramal skeletal-binding hyphae thick-walled to almost solid, frequently branched, tightly interwoven, 2–4.5 µm in diam. Cystidia and cystidioles absent. Dendrohyphidia present along the hymenium, especially abundant in the dissepiments. Basidia broadly clavate, with four sterigmata and a basal clamp connection, 20–35 × 12–15 µm; basidioles in shape similar to basidia, but slightly smaller. Basidiospores ellipsoid to mango-shaped, hyaline, thin-walled, smooth, sometimes with one or two guttule, IKI–, CB–, (11)13–17(18) × (5.5)5.8–8.5(8.8) µm, L = 14.8 µm, W = 7.1 µm, Q = 2.08–2.25 (n = 60/2).
Ecology and distribution: When Wu et al. (2020) made a systematic study on the polypores from subtropical and tropical China, M. yuchengii was found as a common species in South China, usually grows on angiosperm trunks or branches and occurring in open areas of the forest.
Specimens examined: China, Hainan Province, Wuzhishan County, Wuzhishan Forest
Park, on fallen angiosperm trunk, 10 Jun 2016 Dai 16493 (BJFC022610); Hunan
Province, Wulingyuan District, on fallen angiosperm trunk, 17 Ago 2010, leg. Dai 11682
(BJFC008806); Guangdong Province, Shixing County, Chebaling Nature Reserve, on fallen angiosperm branch, 23 Jun 2010, Cui 8707 (BJFC007647); ibid., 23 Jun 2010, leg. Cui 8747 (BJFC007687); Yunnan Province, Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Botanical Garden, on fallen angiosperm branch, 23 Jul 2014, leg. Dai 13893 (BJFC017623); ibid., leg. Dai 13894 (BJFC017624); Green Stone Forest Park, on fallen angiosperm branch, 4 Ago 2005, leg. Dai 6678 (IFP015327); Puer County, Laiyanghe Forest Park, on fallen angiosperm trunk, 6 Jun 2011, leg. Dai 12207 (BJFC010490).
Comments: Mycobonia yuchengii was previously identified as “P. cucullatus” (Dai 2007). Mycobonia yuchengii basidiomata have shallow pores, so macroscopically it resembles species of Grammothele Berk. & M.A. Curtis. In addition, species in both genera have dendrohyphidia along the hymenia, and their skeletal hyphae are dextrinoid (Zhou and Dai 2012). However, Grammothele lacks both stipe and binding hyphae.
Mycobonia brunneoleuca (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Pat., Enum. Champ. Guadeloupe (Lons-le-Saunier): 23 (1903).
≡ Hydnum brunneoleucum Berk. & M.A. Curtis, Trans. Linn. Soc. London
22: 129. 1857, non Polyporus brunneoleucus Berk. 1846.
≡ Polyporus polyacanthophorus Nakasone, Mycotaxon 130(2): 383. 2015.
Description: see Nakasone (2015).
Ecology and distribution: growing on fallen branches of unidentified angiosperms, in cloud forest at 700–2700 m.a.s.l. in Brazil (Gerlach and Loguercio-Leite 2011), Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras (Nakasone 2015), Martinique (Burt 1919), Panamá (Martin 1939), Paraguay, Puerto Rico (Nakasone 2015), and Venezuela (type locality).
Specimens examined: Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, São Francisco de Paula, Floresta Nacional de São Francisco de Paula, 25 May 2019, leg. M. Palacio 438 (ICN202959); Santa Catarina, Joaçaba, Parque Ecológico Municipal Rio do Peixe, leg. G. Alves-Silva 625, (FLOR60335).
Comments: Mycobonia brunneoleuca is principally characterized by the large basidiospores 15–24(25) × (6)7–11 µm, narrowly ellipsoid, thin walled and hyaline. Macroscopically is characterized by the concave and shell-like basidiomata with stereoid hymenophore projecting sterile hyphal pegs, which is almost identical to M. flava. Mycobonia brunneoleuca and M. flava; can be differentiated by the basidiospores, which are sub-cylindrical and smaller (up to 5–7 µm wide) in M. flava, and also by the ecological niches that these two species occupy (Gerlach and Loguercio-Leite 2011). Mycobonia brunneoleuca occurs in cloud forests of the Caribbean, and throughout Central and South America between 700 and 2,700 m asl., while M. flava occurs at elevations up to 700 m asl. from North America to Argentina. In addition to these morphological and ecological differences, our phylogenetic analysis showed that M. brunneoleuca and M. flava represent two different linages (Fig. 1).
Mycobonia flava (Sw.) Pat., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 10(2): 77. 1894.
≡ Peziza flava Sw.: Fr., Prod.: 150. 1788.
≡ Hydnum flavum (Sw.: Fr.) Berk., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 10: 380. 1843 [“1842”].
≡ Bonia flava (Sw.: Fr.) Henn., Hedwigia 36: 192. 1897.
≡ Auricularia flava (Sw.: Fr.) Farl., Bibl. Index N. Amer. Fung.: 307. 1905.
≡ Grandinioides flava (Sw.: Fr.) Banker, Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 12: 179. 1906.
≡ Polyporus curtipes subsp. flavus (Sw.: Fr.) D. Krüger, Cryptog. Mycol. 31: 399. 2010.
≡ Polyporus epitheloides Nakasone, Mycotaxon 130(2): 383. 2015.
Description: see Julich (1976).
Ecology and distribution: growing on fallen branches of unidentified angiosperms, in Argentina, Colombia (Jülich 1975), Cuba (Burt 1919), Jamaica (Swartz 1788) (type locality), North America (Burt 1919), Brazil (Jülich 1975; Baltazar and Gibertoni 2009) and Venezuela (Corner 1984).
Specimens examined: Brazil, Amazonas, Novo Aripuanã, BR-230, 23 Apr 1985, leg. K.F. Rodrigues 325 (INPA136956); Paraná, Foz do Iguaçu, Parque Nacional do Iguaçu, 25°37'21.1"S, 54°28'11.0"W, 23 Jan 2017, leg. M. Palacio 207 (ICN197318); ibid., leg. M. Palacio 213, (ICN197319); Rio Do Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Parque Nacional da Tijuca, 8 Feb 2017, leg. F.T.F. Linhares 228 (ICN197346); São Paulo, São Paulo, Parque Estadual da Cantareira, Trilha da cachoeira, 25 Mar 2019, leg. M.P. Drewinski 449, (SP499082).
Comments: Microscopically M. flava is very similar to M. miquelii, especially by the sub-cylindrical basidiospores, however M. flava can be differentiated by the hymenophore being stereoid with hyphal pegs, while in M. miquelii it is poroid.
Other species possibly included in the genus Mycobonia:
Favolus curtipes Berk. & M.A. Curtis, Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 1: 234 (1849)
Favolus tenuis Fr., Syst. orb. veg. (Lundae) 1: 76 (1825)
Hexagonia bipindiensis Henn., Bot. Jb. 38(1): 122 (1905) [1907]
Hexagonia pulchella Lév., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3 2: 200 (1844)
Polyporus orinocensis Pat. & Gaillard, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 4(2): 31 (1888)
Polyporus polygrammus Mont., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 8: 365 (1837)
Pseudofavolus nigrus Ryvarden, Mycotaxon 28(2): 537 (1987)
KEY TO MYCOBONIA NEOTROPICAL SPECIES
1 Hymenophoral surface poroid 2
1* Hymenophoral surface stereoid with hyphal pegs 5
2 Pores 1–1.5 per mm; pilear surface tessellate, bullate-reticulate, pale ochraceous to brownish ochraceous with reddish-brown spots mainly towards the margin ...........................M. miquelii
2* Pores 2–3 per mm; pilear surface smooth to slightly tessellate, or radially wrinkled, beige to pale ochraceous, to chesnut to black 3
3 Pores 0.2–0.5 per mm; pilear surface smooth or slightly tessellate, beige to pale ochraceous, slightly reddish brown towards the margin when dry; known from Mexico to Argentina
M. cucullata
3* Pores 4–5 per mm; pilear surface smooth darker, only known from Venezuela. 4
4 Pilear surface pale chestnut to reddish-brown M. yuchenguii
4* Pilear surface black P. nigrus
5 Basidiospores narrowly ellipsoid 15–24(25) × (6)7–11 µm; growing in cloud forests of the Caribbean and Central and South America between 700 and 2,700 m asl.
M. brunneoleuca
5* Basidiospores sub-cylindrical 12–18 × 5–7 µm; growing at elevations up to 700 m asl. from North America to Argentina M. flava