IMA Fungus 5(1): 39-49, doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.01.05
The genus Lactarius s. str. (Basidiomycota, Russulales) in Togo (West Africa): phylogeny and a new species described
Dao Lamèga Maba‡, Atsu K. Guelly‡, Nourou S. Yorou§, André De Kesel|, Annemieke Verbeken¶, Reinhard Agerer§‡ Université de Lomé, Département de Botanique et Écologie Végétale, Faculté des Sciences, Lomé, Togo§ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department Biology I, Organismic Biology: Mycology, München, Germany| Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium¶ Ghent University, Department of Biology, Research group Mycology, Ghent, Belgium
© Dao Maba, Atsu Guelly, Nourou Yorou, André De Kesel, Annemieke Verbeken, Reinhard Agerer. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes, provided that the article is not altered or modified and the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Maba D, Guelly AK, Yorou NS, De Kesel A, Verbeken A, Agerer R (2014) The genus Lactarius s. str. (Basidiomycota, Russulales) in Togo (West Africa): phylogeny and a new species described. IMA Fungus 5(1): 39-49. https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.01.05 |  |
Abstract
Lactarius s. str. represents a monophyletic group of about 40 species in tropical Africa, although the delimitation of the genus from Lactifluus is still in progress. Recent molecular phylogenetic and taxonomic revisions have led to numerous changes in names of tropical species formerly referred to Lactarius. To better circumscribe the genus Lactarius in Togo, we combined morphological data with sequence analyses and phylogeny inference of rDNA ITS sequences. Morphological and molecular data were generated from specimens sampled in various native woodlands and riverside forests; Lactarioid- and Russula sequences from public GenBank NCBI, and UNITE are included for phylogenetic analysis. The Maximum likelihood phylogeny tree inferred from aligned sequences supports the phylogenetic position of the studied samples from Togo within the subgenera Piperites, and Plinthogali.
Keywords
distribution, ecology, ectomycorrhizas, Lactifluus, molecular phylogeny, Tropical Africa