Table 3.

Morphological, ecological and geographic traits in Fomitopsis palustris complex.

Species	Geographic distribution/host	Macroscopic characters	Tramal skeletal hyphae	Basidia	Basidiospores
F. caespitosa	East Asia, Oceania, South America; angiosperms	usually effusedreflexed with large resupinate parts; pores 7–11 per mm	rather densely interwoven, 3.5–7 μm in diam, approaching dissepiment edges	9–12 × 4–5 μm	broadly cylindrical to ellipsoid, 3.0–4.2 × 1.9–2.9 μm; L = 3.58, W = 2.13, Q = 1.68
F. eucalypticola (fide Liu et al. 2019)	Oceania; angiosperms (Eucalyptus spp.)	sessile or effusedreflexed, pores 3–5 per mm	interwoven, 1.5–3 μm in diam	15–23 × 7–10.5 μm	cylindrical to ellipsoid, 5.8–9.1 × 2.7–5.0 μm; L = 7.52, W = 3.42, Q = 2.23
F. luzonensis	South-East Asia; angiosperms	sessile or effusedreflexed, pores 8–10 per mm	rather densely interwoven, 2–4.5 μm in diam, approaching dissepiment edges	10–16.5 × 4.5–6.5 μm	cylindrical to fusiform, 5.1–8.1 × 2.0–3.1 μm; L = 6.04, W = 2.66, Q = 2.27
F. marianii	Eurasia, North America, Oceania (?); angiosperms, very rarely conifers	usually sessile or effused-reflexed, pores 4–6 per mm	rather loosely interwoven, 2–5 μm in diam, absent at dissepiment edges	12.5–21.5 × 4.5–7 μm	cylindrical to fusiform, 5.1–8.7 × 2.0–3.2 μm; L = 6.45, W = 2.60, Q = 2.48
F. meliae	North America (subtropics – tropics), South America; angiosperms	usually sessile or effused-reflexed, pores 4–7 per mm	rather loosely interwoven, 3–5 μm in diam, approaching dissepiment edges	11–17.5 × 4.5–6 μm	cylindrical to fusiform, 4.2–7.2 × 2.1–2.9 μm; L = 5.62, W = 2.40, Q = 2.34
F. nivosella	North and South America; angiosperms	sessile or effusedreflexed, pores 5–6 per mm	rather loosely interwoven, 2–4 μm in diam, approaching dissepiment edges	11–17 × 4–7 μm	cylindrical to fusiform, 5.0–8.0 × 1.8–3.0 μm; L = 6.60, W = 2.50, Q = 2.64
F. ostreiformis	East Africa, South-East Asia; angiosperms	sessile, effusedreflexed or totally resupinate, pores 5–8 per mm	rather loosely interwoven, 3–4.5 μm in diam, approaching dissepiment edges	10–18 × 4.5–6 μm	cylindrical to fusiform, 4.2–7.3 × 2.1–3.0 μm; L = 5.61, W = 2.55, Q = 2.20
F. palustris	North America; conifers (Pinus spp.)	sessile, pores 5–7 per mm	loosely interwoven, 3–5 μm in diam, approaching dissepiment edges	14–22 × 5.5–7 μm	cylindrical to fusiform, 6.2–8.2 × 2.4–3.7 μm; L = 7.11, W = 2.95, Q = 2.41