Abstract
The genus Sistotrema is supposed to be polyphyletic. This idea is supported by the existence of saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal Sistotrema species. We show for the first time that the type species Sistotrema confluens Pers. is ectomycorrhizal by ITS rDNA sequence identity of fruiting bodies and underneath growing ectomycorrhizas. The accompanying anatomical description of the ectomycorrhiza is in correspondence with previously published descriptions of Sistotrema ectomycorrhizas, especially the presence of ampullate hyphae. The ectomycorrhizal status and the deviating fruiting body morphology (partially stipitate versus resupinate in all other Sistotrema species) indicate a relationship of S. confluens to the ectomycorrhizal genus Hydnum. A phylogram of ITS rDNA sequences cannot resolve the basal polytomies in the genus Sistotrema but confirms the monophyly of the genus Hydnum. Thus, S. confluens is not more closely related to Hydnum than to ectomycorrhizal Sistotrema species. The proof of the ectomycorrhizal status of S. confluens can be of value in a future revision of phylogenetic relationships within the group of Hydnum and ectomycorrhizal Sistotrema species.
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We thank Katja Kühdorf for assistance in preparing the micro drawings of mantle anatomy and Monika Roth and Petra Knauer for assistance in the laboratory. Comments of Reinhard Agerer improved the short description of the ectomycorrhiza.
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Bubner, B., Morgner, C., Stark, W. et al. Proof of ectomycorrhizal status of Sistotrema confluens Pers., the type species of the polyphyletic genus Sistotrema . Mycol Progress 13, 973 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-014-0973-3
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