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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.} }