Abstract
During the course of macrofungal forays, we collected several wood-rotting fungi from three states in India: Bihar, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra. We identified some of these macrofungal collections as Favolus roseus Lloyd. A critical literature survey and taxonomic investigation established that this is the first report of F. roseus from India. We give a detailed morphological description, illustration, and molecular phylogeny of the species, along with taxonomic note and extended biogeographical distributional map.
Highlights
We identified some of these macrofungal collections as Favolus roseus Lloyd
A critical literature survey and taxonomic investigation established that this is the first report of F. roseus from India
We sampled from large areas of India covering the three large states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra in order to record the morphological features and our data were similar to that of Sotome et al (2013)
Summary
Was first used by Palisot de Beauvois (1805) for a single species, F. hirsu tus P. Beauv., which was originally collected in Africa and had a characteristic honeycomb-like hymenophore. During the taxonomic history of Favolus (Corner 1984; Ryvarden 1991; Núñez and Ryvarden 1995, 2001; Ryvarden and Iturriaga 2004; Silveira and Wright 2005; Drechsler-Santos et al 2008), it had several times been considered to be synonym of Polyporus P. One such remarkable taxon is Polyporus tenuiculus P. Beauv., which is morphologically highly variable; its gradual collection and characterization from North America, China, and Europe has lead to the realization that it is a species
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