ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Auricularia (wood ear mushroom) genus: a contribution to classification and new species records for Iran and world
1
Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat
Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Forest Biology, Faculty of Natural Resources, Tarbiat
Modares University, Tehran, Iran
These authors had equal contribution to this work
Online publication date: 2024-12-31
Publication date: 2024-12-31
Plant and Fungal Systematics 2024; 69(2): 205-217
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ABSTRACT
Auricularia is one of the most widely distributed macrofungi, regarded as an
edible medical mushroom, and is the third largest cultivated mushroom in the world due to
its high nutrition and bioactivity properties. This research specifies the taxonomic status of
this genus in Iran for the first time. After sample collection during 2017–2018, 19 samples
were collected from Hyrcanian forests in Iran. Phylogenetic analyses and morphological
examinations of 19 samples were carried out. Morphological studies identified five species
Auricularia auricula-judae, A. cornea, A. heimuer, A. iranica sp. nov., and A. mesenterica.
Subsequently, one representative sample from each group (species) was sequenced.
Based on rpb2 and ITS sequences, phylogenetic analyses were performed using Bayesian
Inference analysis. The identification of five species of Auricularia was done according to
molecular and morphological examinations. As expected from morphological characters,
as well as ITS and rpb2 regions sequences support, one new species, Auricularia iranica
in the A. mesenterica complex, is described. The two known species, A. auricula-judae
and A. heimuer belonging to the A. auricula-judae complex and A. cornea belonging to
the A. cornea complex, are defined. An identification key for the accepted Auricularia
species of Iran is proposed.
FUNDING
This research was supported by the Tarbiat Modares University,
Tehran, Iran.
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