Ganoderma orbiforme

Ganoderma orbiforme is a species of polypore fungus that is widespread across southeast Asia. It is a plant pathogen that causes basal stem rot, a disease of the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis). The fungus was first described scientifically in 1838 by Elias Magnus Fries from collections made in Guinea.[1] Leif Ryvarden transferred it to the genus Ganoderma in 2000. In addition to its type locality, the fungus has also been collected from the Bonin Islands in the Pacific, and from Venezuela and Puerto Rico.[2] Microsatellite markers have been developed to help identify the fungus and study the genetic diversity of G. orbiforme.[3]

Ganoderma orbiforme
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Polyporales
Family:	Ganodermataceae
Genus:	Ganoderma
Species:	G. orbiforme
Binomial name
Ganoderma orbiforme (Fr.) Ryvarden (2000)
Synonyms
Polyporus orbiformis Fr. (1838) Fomes orbiformis (Fr.) Cooke (1885) Fomes lucidus f. boninensis Pat. (1888) Fomes lucidus f. noukahivensis Pat. (1888) Ganoderma boninense Pat. (1889) Ganoderma noukahivense Pat. (1889) Scindalma orbiforme (Fr.) Kuntze (1898) Ganoderma lucidum var. orbiformis (Fr.) Rick (1960)

References

1. Fries, E.M. (1838). Epicrisis Systematis Mycologici (in Latin). Uppsala: Typ. Acad. p. 463.
2. Ryvarden, Leif (2000). "Studies in neotropical polypores 2: a preliminary key to neotropical species of Ganoderma with a laccate pileus". Mycologia. 92 (1): 180–191. doi:10.2307/3761462. JSTOR 3761462.
3. Mercière, Maxime; Laybats, Anthony; Carasco-Lacombe, Catherine; Tan, Joon Sheong; Klopp, Christophe; Durand-Gasselin, Tristan; Alwee, Sharifah Shahrul Rabiah Syed; Camus-Kulandaivelu, Létizia; Breton, Fréderic (2015). "Identification and development of new polymorphic microsatellite markers using genome assembly for Ganoderma boninense, causal agent of oil palm basal stem rot disease". Mycological Progress. 14 (11): 103. doi:10.1007/s11557-015-1123-2.