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The Ganodermataceae in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique)

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the authors summarize the knowledge about the family Ganodermataceae in the French West Indies (F.W.I.), after an exhaustive analysis of available literature and after their personal collections, gathered during seven field-trips in Guadeloupe and Martinique (2003–2008). Sixty-four collections were examined, along with several types of species described from The Neotropics (Ganoderma dussii Pat., G. pulverulentum Murrill, G. subfornicatum Murrill, G. tuberculosum Murrill). Fifteen taxa are recognized for the F.W.I., after morphological characters, each of them here described, illustrated or discussed. Current phylogenetic work supports the adopted taxonomic outline. The following species are recorded for the first time in the F.W.I.: Ganoderma amazonense Weir, ‘Ganoderma’ flaviporum (Murrill) Sacc. & Trotter, G. subamboinense (P. Henn.) Bazzalo & J.E. Wright, G. tuberculosum Murrill. Three new species are introduced: G. neogibbosum, G. parvigibbosum and G. martinicense. Incidentally, G. subfornicatum Murrill is mentioned for the first time from French Guiana.

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Special thanks are due to Cony Decock (Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), for his invaluable help and advice and for the offered chance to take part in his general phylogenetic work on Ganodermataceae. Herbaria keepers, who granted us of some helpful loans of types are also thanked: FH, NY. Field trips were made possible with special funding from ONF (French Forestry Office, Fort-de-France, Martinique) and DIREN (Direction régionale de l’environnement, Fort-de-France, Martinique) to the Société mycologique de France (Paris). Collections in French Guiana were possible under the scope of an ANR research program directed by Dr. M. Asther (INRA, Marseille). Crucial help was also obtained, during field work, from Jean Chabrol (Lamentin, Guadeloupe), Jean-Pierre Fiard (Fort-de-France, Martinique), Christian Lechat (Virollet, France), Christophe Lécuru (Lille, France), Félix Lurel (Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe). Finally, we thank Laura Guzman for invaluable comments on an early version of this paper, Kevin Hyde for encouraging formal validation of our new taxa and Jean-Marie Pirlot (Neufchâteau, Belgium), for translating the latin diagnosis.

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Welti, S., Courtecuisse, R. The Ganodermataceae in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique). Fungal Diversity 43, 103–126 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-010-0036-2

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