Geography and hosts of the wood decay fungiFomes fasciatusandFomes fomentariusin the United States

[摘要] Comprehensive United States county distribution maps ofFomes fasciatusandF. fomentariuswere developed based on peer-reviewed publications, records from mycological herbaria and collections made for this study. The geographic distribution was expanded for both species to include a total of seven counties in five states not included in previous publications and records. North Carolina and Tennessee were the only states where both species occurred, but their distributions did not overlap when resolved to the county level. Both fungi occurred on a diverse range of hardwood tree hosts, and in this study, 11 and 17 new hosts associations were identified forF. fasciatusandF. fomentarius , respectively. The extension of host distributions beyond the known range for each fungus suggests that other delimiting factors may contribute to the distribution ofF. fasciatusandF. fomentarius .

[学科分类] 植物学

[关键词] fungus distribution;polypores;white rot;wood decay