Fungalpedia – Note 2399, Hymenochaetaceae

 

Hymenochaetaceae Donk

Citation when using this data: Yuan HS et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Hymenochaetales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi

Hymenochaetaceae, typified by Hymenochaete rubiginosa (Dicks.) Lév., belongs to the Hymenochaetales and currently comprises 27 genera and about 490 known species (Kirk et al. 2008). The family includes species with ferruginous brown, coriaceous to woody, stipitate, pileate to resupinate basidiocarps, poroid, hydnoid or smooth hymenophore, and xanthocroic microstructures (Dai 2010). The hyphal system is monomitic or dimitic and clamp connections are absent. Dextrinoid basidiospores may be present in some genera, also, sterile elements (setae) in the hymenium or in the trama, a characteristic that, although not present in all species, is very particular to the family (Ryvarden 2004; Dai 2010). Species produce white rots and several are important phytopathogens (Zhou et al. 2016a). The genera in Hymenochaetaceae have been revised and the two largest genera Phellinus Quél. and Inonotus P. Karst. have been segregated into more natural groups (Wagner and Fischer, 2001, 2002; Zhou et al. 2015b). Additionally, several new genera and species have been proposed in the last years (Rajchenberg et al. 2015; Drechsler-Santos et al. 2016; Wu et al. 2016; Chen and Yuan 2017; Ji et al. 2017; Salvador-Montoya et al. 2018). Some important forest pathogens and medicinal fungi are members of the Hymenochaetaceae (Dai 2012, Wu et al. 2019).

Type genus: Hymenochaete Lév., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3 5: 150 (1846).

 

References

Chen Q, Yuan Y 2017 – A new species of Fuscoporia (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) from southern China. Mycosphere 8:1238–1245.

Dai YC 2010 – Hymenochaetaceae (Basidiomycota) in China. Fungal Divers 45:131–343.

Dai YC 2012 – Polypore diversity in China with an annotated checklist of Chinese polypores. Mycoscience 53:49–80.

Drechsler-Santos, ER, Robledo, G, Lima-junior NC, Malosso, E, Reck MA, Gibertoni, T B, Cavalcanti, MAQ, Rajchenberg, M 2016 – Phellinotus, a new neotropical genus in the Hymenochaetaceae (Basidiomycota, Hymenochaetales). Phytotaxa 261:218–239.

Ji XH, Dai YC, Vlasák J 2017 – Two new species of Fulvifomes (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) from America. MycoKeys 22:1–13.

Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA 2008 – Ainsworth & Bisby’s dictionary of the fungi, 10th edn. CAB International, Wallingford.

Rajchenberg M, Pildain MB, Bianchinotti MV, Barroetaveña C 2015 – The phylogenetic position of poroid Hymenochaetaceae (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) from Patagonia, Argentina. Mycologia 107:754–767.

Ryvarden L 2004 – Neotropical Polypores Part 1. Introduction, Ganodermataceae & Hymenochaetaceae. Syn Fung 19:1–229.

Wagner T, Fischer M 2001 – Natural groups and a revised system for the European poroid Hymenochaetales (Basidiomycota) supported by nLSU rDNA sequence data. Mycol Res 105:773–782.

Wagner T, Fischer M 2002 – Proceeding toward a natural classification of the worldwide taxa Phellinus s.l. and Inonotus s.l. and phylogenetic relationship of allied genera. Mycologia 94:998–1016.

Wu F, Zhou LW, Yang ZL, Bau T, Li TH, Dai YC 2019 – Resource diversity of Chinese macrofungi: edible, medicinal and poisonous species. Fungal Divers 98:1–76.

Wu F, Zhou LW, Dai YC 2016 – Neomensularia duplicata gen. et sp. nov. (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) and two new combinations. Mycologia 108:891–898.

Zhou LW, Vlasák J, Decock C, Assefa A, Stenlid J, Abate D, Wu SH, Dai YC 2016a – Global diversity and taxonomy of the Inonotus linteus complex (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota): Sanghuangporus gen. nov., Tropicoporus excentrodendri and T. guanacastensis gen. et spp. nov., and 17 new combinations. Fungal Divers 77:335–347.

Zhou LW, Vlasák, J, Dai YC 2016b – Taxonomy and phylogeny of Phellinidium (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota): A redefinition and the segregation of Coniferiporia gen. nov. for forest pathogens. Fungal Biol 120:988–1001.

 

Entry by

Hai-Sheng Yuan, CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110164, People’s Republic of China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

 

Published online 5 May 2026

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