Candelabrochaete

Candelabrochaete
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Phanerochaetaceae
Genus:	Candelabrochaete Boidin (1970)
Type species
Candelabrochaete africana Boidin (1970)

Candelabrochaete is a genus of crust fungi in the family Phanerochaetaceae.

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed by French mycologist Jacques Boidin in 1970. He originally included two species, C. langloisii, and the type, C. africana.[1]

Description

Similar to the genus Phanerochaete, Candelabrochaete features simple septa in the subicular hyphae and at the base of the basidia, and hyaline, thin-walled, nonamyloid spores. Several features distinguish Candelabrochaete from Phanerochaete. These include small, cylindrical to club-shaped (clavate) basidia, septate cystidia, a loosely interwoven subiculum (a mat of hyphae from which the fruitbody arises), and a loosely organized hymenium. This latter characteristic gives a farinaceous to woolly appearance to the fruitbodies.[2]

Species

As of May 2018^[update], Index Fungorum accepts 12 species in Candelabrochaete:[3]

• Candelabrochaete adnata Hjortstam (1995)[4] – Brazil
• Candelabrochaete africana Boidin (1970)[1] – Africa
• Candelabrochaete cirrata Hjortstam & Ryvarden (1986)[5] – Argentina; British Virgin Islands; Brunei; Ghana; Kenya; Taiwan
• Candelabrochaete dispar Hjortstam & Ryvarden (1986)[5] – Argentina
• Candelabrochaete eruciformis (G.Cunn.) Stalpers & P.K.Buchanan (1991)[6]
• Candelabrochaete langloisii (Pat.) Boidin (1970)[1]
• Candelabrochaete macaronesica M.Dueñas, Tellería & Melo (2008)[7] – Faial Island; Madeira
• Candelabrochaete magnahypha (Burt) Burds. (1984)[2]
• Candelabrochaete mexicana (Burt) P.Roberts (2000)[8] – Cameroon; Venezuela
• Candelabrochaete neocaledonica Duhem & Buyck (2011)[9] – New Caledonia
• Candelabrochaete simulans Hjortstam (1995)[4] – Thailand
• Candelabrochaete verruculosa Hjortstam (1983)[10] – Africa; Asia; Europe

References

1. Boidin, J. (1970). "Basidiomycètes de la République Centralafricaine. II. - Les genres Botryobasidium Donk et Candelabrochaete nov. gen". Cahiers de la Maboké (in French). 8: 17–25.
2. Burdsall, H.H. Jr. (1984). "The genus Candelabrochaete (Corticiaceae) in North America and a note on Peniophora mexicana". Mycotaxon. 19: 389–395.
3. Kirk, P.M. "Species Fungorum (version 28th March 2018). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 5 May 2018.
4. Hjortstam, K. (1995). "Two new species of Candelabrochaete (Basidiomycotina, Aphyllophorales)". Mycotaxon. 56: 451–453.
5. Hjortstam, K.; Ryvarden, L. (1986). "Some new and noteworthy fungi (Aphyllophorales, Basidiomycetes) from Iguazu, Argentina". Mycotaxon. 25 (2): 539–567.
6. Stalpers, J.A.; Buchanan, P.K. (1991). "Type studies of the species of Pellicularia and Peniophora described by G.H. Cunningham". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 29 (3): 331–340. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1991.10416611.
7. Dueñas, M.; Telleria, M.T.; Melo, I.; Rodríguez-Armas, J.L.; Beltrán-Tejera, E. (2008). "A new species of Candelabrochaete (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)". Mycotaxon. 103: 299–305.
8. Roberts, P. (2000). "Corticioid fungi from Korup National Park, Cameroon". Kew Bulletin. 55 (4): 803–842. doi:10.2307/4113628. JSTOR 4113628.
9. Duhem, B.; Buyck, B. (2011). "Candelabrochaete neocaledonica sp. nov. de Nouvelle-Calédonie". Cryptogamie, Mycologie (in French). 32 (1): 25–32. doi:10.7872/crym.v32.iss1.2012.025. S2CID 84925005.
10. Hjortstam, K. (1983). "Studies in tropical Corticiaceae (Basidiomycetes). V. Specimens from East Africa collected by L. Ryvarden". Mycotaxon. 17: 555–572.