New species of Cystolepiota from China

Mycology. 2016 Oct 19;7(4):165-170. doi: 10.1080/21501203.2016.1239231. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

In this paper, a new species, Cystolepiota pseudofumosifolia, is introduced. C. pseudofumosifolia is characterized by granulose or powdery pileus with an anatomic structure that is loosely globose, as well as ellipsoid cells in chains in the pileus covering the cheilocystidia. This new species is compared to the related and similar Cystolepiota species in morphology and molecular phylogeny based on Internal transcribed spacer sequences. Both types of data support our specimens as a new species in the genus Cystolepiota.

Keywords: Agaricaceae; ITS; phylogenetics; taxonomy.

Grants and funding

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project ID: 31000013; 31360014 to Ruilin Zhao; 31500013 to Guojie Li) and the open project from the State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.