We are grateful to Jens H.Petersen and Thomas Læssøe,who kindly allowed us to publish images of Ganoderma from their website(www.mycokey.com),and to David L.Hawksworth and Scott Redhead for valuable discussions.Moreover,we greatly appreciate the help of Y.-L.Yao(Beijing)and co-workers in locating the specimens that are depicted in Fig.4.
The taxonomic and nomenclatural history of the genus Ganoderma and related basidiomycetes is reviewed and compared to recent studies on its molecular phylogeny.A basidiomycete belonging to the genus Ganoderma can ofte...