Hapalopilus ribicola (P. Karst.) Spirin & Miettinen

Miettinen, Otto, Spirin, Viacheslav, Vlasak, Josef, Rivoire, Bernard, Stenroos, Soili & Hibbett, David S., 2016, Polypores and genus concepts in Phanerochaetaceae (Polyporales, Basidiomycota), MycoKeys 17, pp. 1-46 : 12

Hapalopilus ribicola (P. Karst.) Spirin & Miettinen comb. nov. Figure 6g

Trametes ribicola P. Karst., Hedwigia 20: 178 (1881).

Remarks.

This species was described by Karsten (1881) based on the sole collection from Finland. It had usually been regarded as a form of Hapalopilus rutilans ( Lowe 1956). However, our data show that specimens growing on Ribes spp. in North Europe are distinct from Hapalopilus rutilans and phylogenetically closer to Hapalopilus eupatorii . All specimens of Hapalopilus ribicola studied by us are from Finland, from branches of both wild and cultivated Ribes spp. The species is evidently widely distributed and just overlooked.