Engleromyces sinensis
| Engleromyces sinensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Ascomycetes |
| Order: | Xylariales |
| Family: | Xylariaceae |
| Genus: | Engleromyces |
| Species: | E. sinensis |
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Engleromyces sinensis M.A.Whalley, A.Khalil, T.Z.Wei, Y.J.Yao & Whalley (2010) |
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| Location of Yulong County within Yunnan, China, the type location of Engleromyces sinensis | |
Engleromyces sinensis is a species of fungus in the family Xylariaceae. It was described as new to science in 2010, based on specimens collected in 1958 and incorrectly identified as Engleromyces goetzii. The fungus is known only from China, where it grows on bamboo culms. It forms fruit bodies in the shape of two roughly circular buff-colored lobes measuring up to 50 cm (20 in) in diameter that envelop the bamboo. E. sinensis has been used as a folk remedy against cancer and infection in Tibet, Yunnan, and Sichuan Provinces. Several bioactive metabolites have been isolated and identified from the fungus.
Engleromyces sinensis was described as a new species in 2010. The authors were studying members of the family Xylariaceae that were housed in the Mycological Herbarium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and discovered that five specimens labeled as E. goetzii, collected from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (Yunnan Province) in 1958, did not match descriptions of the species published by Paul Christoph Hennings (1900), Curtis Gates Lloyd (1917), R.W.G. Dennis (1961) or Jack Rogers (1981). These species descriptions, which were based on collections made in Africa, convinced the authors that the Chinese collections were sufficiently different from E. goetzii to warrant describing a new species. Prior to this discovery, Engleromyces was a monotypic genus. The specific epithet sinensis means "Chinese".
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