User talk:Sasata/Reviewed content

Hi Sasata,

I am a University of Toronto student taking the 4th year medical and veterinary mycology course with Dr. James Scott. This course has an assignment that require us to write an article about a specific specie of fungus. Interestingly, or unfortunately for me, I got Tropicoporus tropicalis. I know that this name is quite recent (2015 Zhou et al), and it has at least 5 other names: Poria rickii, Phellinus rickii, Inonotus tropicalis, Inonotus rickii, and Phellinus tropicalis. I not really sure if these names all apply to the same specie of fungus, since one of the article mentioned that two of the names mentioned above are actually different but related species.

Therefore, I am just wondering if you could provide me some sources that I could gather more information about this fungus.

Thanks

Tim
 * Hi . Larsen & Lombard give a good summary of the taxonomical conundrum associated with this set of names (see here), in their 1988 paper in which they transferred the taxon to genus Phellinus. The species was transferred to Tropicoporus in 2015 when molecular phylogenetic analysis showed that a subset of species traditionally classified as Inonotus and Phellinus were genetically distinct and deserving of a separate genus (see the paper here). From a quick read of these papers, it seems that all the names you list above refer to the same species. I hope this helps. Let me know if you need more assistance after digesting the two papers above. Sasata (talk) 17:08, 9 October 2015 (UTC)