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Citation title: "Species clarification for the medicinally valuable ?sanghuang? mushroom".

Study name: "Species clarification for the medicinally valuable ?sanghuang? mushroom".

This study is part of submission 11836 (Status: Published).

Citation

Wu S., Dai Y.C., Hattori T., Yu T., Wang D., Parmasto E., Chang H., & Shih S. 2012. Species clarification for the medicinally valuable ?sanghuang? mushroom. Botanical Studies, 53(1).

Authors

• Wu S.
• Dai Y.C.
• Hattori T.
• Yu T.
• Wang D.
• Parmasto E.
• Chang H.
• Shih S.

Abstract

A legendary and very valuable medicinal fungal species originally known in China 1000 years ago is revealed in this study as a new species. The sanghuang mushroom (sanghuang) is a medicinal polypore species with high economic value, famous in China, Japan, and Korea. The Chinese word sang means the tree genus Morus and huang means yellow, accordingly it is ?a yellow organism on Morus?. Its medicinal application can be traced back to an ancient Chinese herbal medicinal book ca. 1380 years ago, while its highly effective antitumor action was only fairly recently detected and confirmed by modern scientific research. In recent decades, both Japanese and Korean mycologists have adopted Phellinus linteus or P. baumii as the scientific name for sanghuang. It belongs to the Inonotus baumii-I. linteus group, but the question of which species represents what is known in folklore as sanghuang, has not been satisfactorily answered. This study clarified the species delimitation of the I. baumii-I. linteus group, based on an analysis of morphological characteristics and nrDNA ITS sequences; and we clarified which species is the legendary sanghuang. The results showed that both morphological and molecular features are useful in separating different fungal species in the monophyletic group studied, and these species are also specialized to the host tree species. The true sanghuang is an undescribed new species, I. sanghuang, restricted to living Morus and distributed in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. It is now rare and endangered in the wild. This study indicates that species belonging to the I. baumii-I. linteus group are I. baumii, I. linteus, I. lonicericola, I. lonicerinus comb. nov., I. sanghuang, I. vaninii, I. weigelae sp. nov., I. weirianus, an unknown species of Inonotus, P. johnsonianus, and P. repandus. Six related species of the I. baumii-I. linteus group distributed in Asia have evolved to specific host tree species: I. baumii on Syringa, I. lonicericola on Lonicera, I. lonicerinus on Lonicera, I. sanghuang on Morus, I. vaninii on Populus, and I. weigelae on Weigela; a key is provided to these taxa.

Keywords

Basidiomycota; Hymenochaetaceae; Inonotus sanghuang; medicinal fungi; Morus; New species; Phellinus; Taxonomy

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  		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref19970,
  	 author = {Sheng-Hua  Wu and Yu Cheng Dai and Tsutomu  Hattori and Tu-Wen  Yu and Dong-Mei  Wang and Erast  Parmasto and Heng-Yuan  Chang and Siang-Yun  Shih},
  	 title = {Species clarification for the medicinally valuable ?sanghuang? mushroom},
  	 year = {2012},
  	 keywords = {Basidiomycota; Hymenochaetaceae; Inonotus sanghuang; medicinal fungi; Morus; New species; Phellinus; Taxonomy},
  	 doi = {},
  	 url = {http://},
  	 pmid = {},
  	 journal = {Botanical Studies},
  	 volume = {53},
  	 number = {1},
  	 pages = {},
  	 abstract = {A legendary and very valuable medicinal fungal species originally known in China 1000 years ago is revealed in this study as a new species. The sanghuang mushroom (sanghuang) is a medicinal polypore species with high economic value, famous in China, Japan, and Korea. The Chinese word sang means the tree genus Morus and huang means yellow, accordingly it is ?a yellow organism on Morus?. Its medicinal application can be traced back to an ancient Chinese herbal medicinal book ca. 1380 years ago, while its highly effective antitumor action was only fairly recently detected and confirmed by modern scientific research. In recent decades, both Japanese and Korean mycologists have adopted Phellinus linteus or P. baumii as the scientific name for sanghuang. It belongs to the Inonotus baumii-I. linteus group, but the question of which species represents what is known in folklore as sanghuang, has not been satisfactorily answered. This study clarified the species delimitation of the I. baumii-I. linteus group, based on an analysis of morphological characteristics and nrDNA ITS sequences; and we clarified which species is the legendary sanghuang. The results showed that both morphological and molecular features are useful in separating different fungal species in the monophyletic group studied, and these species are also specialized to the host tree species. The true sanghuang is an undescribed new species, I. sanghuang, restricted to living Morus and distributed in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. It is now rare and endangered in the wild. This study indicates that species belonging to the I. baumii-I. linteus group are I. baumii, I. linteus, I. lonicericola, I. lonicerinus comb. nov., I. sanghuang, I. vaninii, I. weigelae sp. nov., I. weirianus, an unknown species of Inonotus, P. johnsonianus, and P. repandus. Six related species of the I. baumii-I. linteus group distributed in Asia have evolved to specific host tree species: I. baumii on Syringa, I. lonicericola on Lonicera, I. lonicerinus on Lonicera, I. sanghuang on Morus, I. vaninii on Populus, and I. weigelae on Weigela; a key is provided to these taxa.}
  }
  		

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  		TY  - JOUR
  ID  - 19970
  AU  - Wu,Sheng-Hua 
  AU  - Dai,Yu Cheng
  AU  - Hattori,Tsutomu 
  AU  - Yu,Tu-Wen 
  AU  - Wang,Dong-Mei 
  AU  - Parmasto,Erast 
  AU  - Chang,Heng-Yuan 
  AU  - Shih,Siang-Yun 
  T1  - Species clarification for the medicinally valuable ?sanghuang? mushroom
  PY  - 2012
  KW  - Basidiomycota; Hymenochaetaceae; Inonotus sanghuang; medicinal fungi; Morus; New species; Phellinus; Taxonomy
  UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
  N2  - A legendary and very valuable medicinal fungal species originally known in China 1000 years ago is revealed in this study as a new species. The sanghuang mushroom (sanghuang) is a medicinal polypore species with high economic value, famous in China, Japan, and Korea. The Chinese word sang means the tree genus Morus and huang means yellow, accordingly it is ?a yellow organism on Morus?. Its medicinal application can be traced back to an ancient Chinese herbal medicinal book ca. 1380 years ago, while its highly effective antitumor action was only fairly recently detected and confirmed by modern scientific research. In recent decades, both Japanese and Korean mycologists have adopted Phellinus linteus or P. baumii as the scientific name for sanghuang. It belongs to the Inonotus baumii-I. linteus group, but the question of which species represents what is known in folklore as sanghuang, has not been satisfactorily answered. This study clarified the species delimitation of the I. baumii-I. linteus group, based on an analysis of morphological characteristics and nrDNA ITS sequences; and we clarified which species is the legendary sanghuang. The results showed that both morphological and molecular features are useful in separating different fungal species in the monophyletic group studied, and these species are also specialized to the host tree species. The true sanghuang is an undescribed new species, I. sanghuang, restricted to living Morus and distributed in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. It is now rare and endangered in the wild. This study indicates that species belonging to the I. baumii-I. linteus group are I. baumii, I. linteus, I. lonicericola, I. lonicerinus comb. nov., I. sanghuang, I. vaninii, I. weigelae sp. nov., I. weirianus, an unknown species of Inonotus, P. johnsonianus, and P. repandus. Six related species of the I. baumii-I. linteus group distributed in Asia have evolved to specific host tree species: I. baumii on Syringa, I. lonicericola on Lonicera, I. lonicerinus on Lonicera, I. sanghuang on Morus, I. vaninii on Populus, and I. weigelae on Weigela; a key is provided to these taxa.
  L3  - 
  JF  - Botanical Studies
  VL  - 53
  IS  - 1
  ER  -