Summary
A preliminary inventory of the species belonging to macrofungal genera Lentinus and Panus within the Dja Biosphere Reserve and its periphery brings to light the identification of nine species; Lentinus cladopus, L. retinervis, L. sajor-caju, L. squarrosulus, Panus courtetianus, P. fasciatus, P. similis, P. fulvus and Panus cf. ciliatus. L. retinervis is recorded for the first time in Africa, and P. courtetianus is a new combination. An identification key and the main characteristics of Lentinus and Panus species of the Dja Biosphere Reserve are presented.
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We are grateful to Cony Decock and Mario Amalfi of Mycothèque of the Catholic University of Louvain, Jerome Degreef of the National Botanical Garden of Belgium, Mouamfon Mama of Leaving Hearth Foundation Cameroon and Annemeike Verbeken, Stube Dirk and De Crop Eske of the Ghent University who assisted us in fieldwork. The first author thanks Barika David Ngwa of the University of Technology-Dresden Germany and Njoya Moses Tita of the University of Bamenda for proofreading the manuscript. He also thanks the office of ‘International Association for Plant Taxonomy’ (IAPT) for his financial support. Immense thanks go to Onana Jean-Michel, Director of the National Herbarium of Yaoundé (Cameroon) for moral support and for help with writing up this article.
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Professor Amougou Akoa, a great African Botanist, passed away on 26th March 2013, during the revision procedure of this paper.
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Njouonkou, AL., Mossebo, D.C. & Akoa, A. The genera Lentinus and Panus in the Dja Biosphere Reserve and its periphery, Cameroon. Kew Bull 68, 517–521 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-013-9461-1
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