Diversity of Auricularia (Auriculariaceae, Auriculariales) in Thailand

The identification of Auricularia species has previously relied on the examination of macroscopic features of mushroom samples collected in Thailand. These features may vary with age, light exposure, moisture and other factors, making such identification prone to error. This study uses morphological characteristics and molecular data to improve upon previous classifications of Auricularia species. Fruiting bodies collected during recent field excursions and previous collections from herbaria were examined and sequenced for two loci, viz. ITS and rpb2. Auricularia asiatica is described as a new species based on both morphological characteristics and molecular data, and is introduced with a full description, illustrations and colour photographs. Auricularia cornea and A. villosula are described as new records from Thailand. A combined ITS and rpb2 phylogenetic tree is provided, showing the placement of five Auricularia species found in Thailand.

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A new species of Lepiota (Agaricaceae) from Punjab, Pakistan

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.511.2.4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 511 (2) ◽

Author(s):

ABDUL REHMAN NIAZI ◽

MUHAMMAD ASIF ◽

AIMAN IZHAR ◽

ABDUL NASIR KHALID

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Phylogenetic Tree ◽

Full Description ◽

Loamy Soil ◽

Pale Yellow ◽

Cholistan Desert ◽

Its Nrdna ◽

Distinct Morphology ◽

A New Species ◽

Yellowish Orange

During our surveys of fungi of some areas adjacent to the Cholistan desert, Punjab, Pakistan, we collected a new species in Lepiota sect. Echinatae. It was found on loamy soil under Vachellia nilotica and is described and illustrated as new based on the distinct morphology and ITS nrDNA analysis. The new species, Lepiota haroonabadensis, is characterized macroscopically by a light yellowish orange pileus covered with brown squarrose scales, bright yellowish to yellowish red stipe with pale yellow spiny scales, and rudimentary annulus; and microscopically by ellipsoid basidiospores, narrowly clavate to clavate cheilocystidia, cylindrical to sub-cylindrical or ellipsoidal elements of the pileus covering and cylindrical to globose elements of the stipe covering. A full description, color photos, line illustrations and a phylogenetic tree to show the position of the new species are provided.

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Two species of Agaricus subg. Minoriopsis from Mexico

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.404.3.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 404 (3) ◽

pp. 91

Author(s):

JIE CHEN ◽

PHILIPPE CALLAC ◽

RÉGULO CARLOS LLARENA-HERNÁNDEZ ◽

GERARDO GERARDO MATA

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Record ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Morphological Characteristics ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Edible Fungi ◽

The World ◽

Wild Edible Fungi ◽

A New Species ◽

Taxonomic System

Agaricus is a species-rich genus with more than 500 species over the world. Recent studies on tropical Agaricus revealed new tropical clades and a revised taxonomic system was consequently developed. Agaricus subg. Minoriopsis, a sixth subgenus was recently added, comprising species exclusively from the Americas. The diversity of Agaricus is little studied in Mexico, despite this country has a long history in the consumption of wild edible fungi. In this paper, we introduce a new species A. guzmanii and a new record for A. globocystidiatus from Mexico based on morphological characteristics and molecular data. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that they belong to A. subg. Minoriopsis.

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New taxa in Drosanthemum and a new genus in Drosanthemeae (Ruschioideae, Aizoaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.459.2.5 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 459 (2) ◽

pp. 139-154

Author(s):

CORNELIA KLAK ◽

PAVEL HANÁČEK ◽

ODETTE CURTIS-SCOTT ◽

ANSO LE ROUX ◽

PETER V. BRUYNS

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

New Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Sequence Data ◽

Morphological Characteristics ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Western Cape ◽

Monotypic Genus ◽

Nomenclatural Change ◽

A New Species

A phylogeny of all nine subgenera of Drosanthemum, based on chloroplast sequence-data, is presented. The results confirm some previously published facts, e.g. that D. zygophylloides is sister to Drosanthemum. We propose to treat this species as a new monotypic genus, Lemonanthemum, which differs from Drosanthemum in features of the leaves and fruit-stalks. In Drosanthemum s.s., the small subg. Quadrata, characterized by 4-locular fruits, is highly supported as sister to the remainder of Drosanthemum (where fruits are 5-locular). Further, our data support the transfer of Delosperma pubipetalum to Drosanthemum (where a nomenclatural change is also made). The pubescent petals, 5-locular fruits with narrow covering membranes and downward-pointing hair-like papillae on the branches suggest that D. pubipetalum is close to D. papillatum and belongs to subg. Quastea. Another species, D. badspoortense, which had been placed in D. subg. Quastea on account of its narrow covering membranes, is shown to belong to Delosperma and also lacks the unique structure of the fruit-stalk of Drosanthemum. In addition, a new species, D. overbergense, is described from disjunct patches of remnant renosterveld within the Overberg and near Albertinia, in the Western Cape of South Africa. Morphological characteristics suggest that this species belongs to subg. Xamera, but this was not corroborated by our molecular data. Finally, a new name—Drosanthemum calcareum—is proposed for the illegitimate D. intermedium and a lectotype (at BOL) is designated for D. pubipetalum. The lectotypification of D. badspoortense is also proposed.

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Morphological and molecular data reveal a new species of Allium (Amaryllidaceae) from SW Anatolia, Turkey

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.212.4.4 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 212 (4) ◽

pp. 283 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

İsmail Gökhan Deniz ◽

İlker Genç ◽

Duygu Sarı

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Phylogenetic Tree ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Close Relative ◽

Western Region ◽

Distribution Map ◽

Tree Distribution ◽

Morphological Differences ◽

Morphological And Molecular Data ◽

A New Species

Allium undulatitepalum (Amaryllidaceae) is described as a new species from the Antalya Province of Turkey. It belongs to the section Melanocrommyum and is endemic to the south-western region of Turkey. The new species is a close relative of A. orientale, but according to results of the ITS sequences, and based on the morphological differences presented in the description, it is clearly different from its relative. A phylogenetic tree, distribution map, illustrations, pollen and seed microphotographs, karyo-morphology, as well as notes on the biogeography and ecology of the new species are provided.

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A new species of Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832 (Araneae: Sicariidae)from Iranian caves

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4318.2.10 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4318 (2) ◽

pp. 377 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

MOHADESEH S. TAHAMI ◽

ALIREZA ZAMANI ◽

SABER SADEGHI ◽

CARLES RIBERA

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Middle East ◽

Mediterranean Basin ◽

Morphological Characteristics ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Spider Species ◽

Morphological And Molecular Data ◽

Relationship Of ◽

A New Species ◽

The Mediterranean Basin

In this paper, a new spider species of the genus Loxosceles is described on the basis of morphological and molecular data. The phylogenetic relationship of the new species is discussed through the lens of molecular data (cox1, rrnL and H3 genes). Specimens were collected from three Iranian caves in the provinces of Fars, Yazd and Khuzestan, and the specimens showed morphological characteristics that allowed us to easily distinguish Loxosceles persica n. sp. from L. mrazig, which is its sister species, and from the cosmopolitan L. rufescens, which is a widely distributed species throughout the Mediterranean basin and the Middle East. It is the first Loxosceles species endemic to the Middle East.

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Causonis sessilifolia (Vitaceae), a new species from Thailand

PhytoKeys ◽

10.3897/phytokeys.185.75570 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 185 ◽

pp. 55-64

Author(s):

Anna Trias-Blasi ◽

Manop Poopath ◽

Li-Min Lu ◽

Gaurav Parmar

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Phylogenetic Tree ◽

Full Description ◽

Conservation Assessment ◽

Diagnostic Characters ◽

A New Species

A new species, Causonis sessilifolia, from Thailand is described, based on morphological and phylogenetical methods. A full description, conservation assessment, a key, images and phylogenetic tree are provided. Diagnostic characters for this species are sessile leaves that are sometimes opposite and inflorescence insertion interfoliar.

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Cortinarius gueneri: A new species from the Euro-Siberian Floristic Region of Turkey

Karstenia ◽

10.29203/ka.2021.509 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 46-54

Author(s):

Ertugrul Sesli

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

Internal Transcribed Spacer ◽

Its Region ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Full Description ◽

Short Discussion ◽

Morphological And Molecular Data ◽

A New Species

Cortinarius gueneri (subgen. Telamonia sect. Laeti) is described as a new species from Turkey based on morphological and molecular data. It can be recognized by the somewhat irregular conical to campanulate, translucent-striate, rusty brown pileus; pale yellowish to cinnamon brown broadly attached lamellae; pale salmon to pinkish brown stipe; narrowly amygdaloid to ellipsoid basidiospores; and its putative association with Carpinus orientalis. Full description of the new species is given with field photos, microscopic illustrations, and a short discussion. Phylogenetic analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region is also provided.

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A new species of Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Guizhou Province, China

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3510.1.2 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3510 (1) ◽

pp. 41 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

XIAOMING GU ◽

RONGRONG CHEN ◽

YINGZHOU TIAN ◽

SONG LI ◽

JINGCHENG RAN

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Body Size ◽

Nature Reserve ◽

Morphological Characteristics ◽

Molecular Data ◽

Species Group ◽

Guizhou Province ◽

Mitochondrial Data ◽

A New Species

In this study, we describe a new species of salamander, Paramesotriton maolanensis sp. n., from the MaolanNational Nature Reserve, Libo County, Guizhou Province, China. The new species is placed in the genusParamesotriton based on morphological characteristics and molecular data. It differs from all other members of thegenus in a number of morphological characteristics, especially in its much larger body size, absence of granularwarts from head and body, largely reduced external eyes and peculiar shape of epibranchia in hyoid apparatus. Weexamined the relationships of nuclear POMC haplotypes between and within the new species and six recognizedspecies. POMC variation and published mitochondrial data suggested that the new species’ closest known relativesare P. longliensis, P. zhijinensis and P. caudopunctatus, and it should be placed into the P. caudopunctatus species group or subgenus Allomesotriton.

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A new species of Craterium (Myxomycetes, Physaraceae) growing on living grass and new records of the genus from China

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.443.1.2 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 443 (1) ◽

pp. 13-18

Author(s):

BO ZHANG ◽

HAIXIA MA ◽

ZHUANG LI ◽

YU LI ◽

XIAO LI

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Nature Reserve ◽

New Records ◽

Northeastern China ◽

Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽

Fruiting Bodies ◽

National Nature Reserve ◽

First Time ◽

A New Species ◽

Scanning Electron

A new species of Craterium (C. subpurpurea) collected in the Changbai Mountain National Nature Reserve, Jilin Province, northeastern China, is described. The fruiting bodies of C. subpurpurea are long cylindrical with distinct ridges, with large spinulose spores (8–10 μm diam.) as well as a persistent purplish pale peridium at the base of the sporotheca. A newly described species, C. aureonuleatum, has been documented in China for the first time, based on material collected from the Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, Hubei Province and the Gexigou National Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province. Craterium aureonuleatum is characterized by a yellowish pseudocolumella at the apex of the sporocarp and a persistent cup-like peridium when mature. Descriptions and scanning electron micrographs for these members of the genus Craterium are provided.

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Anacraspedodidymum submersum sp. nov. (Chaetosphaeriaceae, Chaetosphaeriales), a new species of freshwater hyphomycetes from southwest China

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY ◽

10.1099/ijsem.0.004650 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 71 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Hua Zheng ◽

Jie Li ◽

Ji-Shu Guo ◽

Min Qiao ◽

Ze-Fen Yu

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

Phylogenetic Tree ◽

Southwest China ◽

Full Description ◽

A New Species

During a mycological survey of freshwater hyphomycetes on submerged leaves in southwest China, a new species, Anacraspedodidymum submersum, was isolated. The new species A. submersum is characterized by having monophialidic conidiogenous cells with funnel shaped collarettes and globose or subglobose, aseptate and hyaline conidia. Morphologically, A. submersum is somewhat similar to A. aquaticum and A. hyalosporum in conidiophores and conidiogenous cells, but can be easily distinguished by its subglobose to globose and smaller conidia. Phylogenetic analysis of combined ITS and LSU sequences show that the new species of Anacraspedodidymum clustered together with the genus Thozetella in Chaetosphaeriaceae. A full description, illustrations and a phylogenetic tree showing the position of A. submersum are provided herein.

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