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Molecular data confirm that Omphalina foliacea is a lichen-forming basidiomycete

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2005

Zdeněk PALICE ,
Imke SCHMITT  and
H. Thorsten LUMBSCH
Zdeněk PALICE
Affiliation:
Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CZ-25243 Průhonice, Czech Republic. E-mail: zpalice@yahoo.com
Imke SCHMITT
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, The Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA.
H. Thorsten LUMBSCH
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, The Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA.
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Abstract

We examined the phylogenetic position of Omphalina foliacea and its putative closest relative, the lichen-forming basidiomycete Lichenomphalia lobata. Both species are restricted to specific habitats in the high andine regions of tropical America. We generated nuclear ITS and LSU rDNA sequences of two collections of each species and analysed the data together with sequences of omphalinoid basidiomycetes retrieved from GenBank using a Bayesian and a maximum parsimony approach. Our analyses show that both, O. foliacea and L. lobata are lichenized basidiomycetes. L. lobata is related to other species of the genus Lichenomphalia, whereas O. foliacea is not closely related to other Omphalina or Lichenomphalia species, but probably belongs in the hymenochaetoid clade. The analysis of a nuclear LSU data set of a broader sampling of hymenochaetoid basidiomycetes supported the placement of O. foliacea in this clade, but did not reveal any close relative.

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Research Article
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Mycological Research , Volume 109 , Issue 4 , April 2005 , pp. 447 - 451
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© The British Mycological Society 2005

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