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| Laccaria rubroalba X. Luo, L. Ye, Mortimer & K.D. Hyde, in Luo, Ye, Chen, ... et Mortimer, 2016. |
Abstract
The novel species Laccaria rubroalba is described from Southwestern China by using both morphological characteristics and molecular data. It is characterized by small basidiomata; reddish white pileus when moist or young, white to pale when dry; 4-spored basidia and globose to broadly ellipsoid, hyaline, moderately echinulate basidiospores. Phylogenetic relationships inferred from ITS sequence data confirmed the separation of this new species from other closely related species in the genus Laccaria. The new species is compared with similar taxa. A description, line drawings and colour photographs of the new species, and phylogenetic tree to show the placement of the new species are provided.
Keywords: Mushrooms, Mycorrhizal fungi, Phylogeny, Taxonomy, Yunnan Province, Fungi, China
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| Basidiomata of Laccaria rubroalba A–C: KUN-HKA 90766, E–G: KUN-HKA 90753. |
Laccaria rubroalba X. Luo, L. Ye, Mortimer & K.D. Hyde, sp. nov.
Index Fungorum number: IF552302;
Facesoffungi number: FoF 02078
Etymology:—The species epithet “rubroalba” refers to the pileus colour of the new species.
Xia Luo, Lei Ye, Jie Chen, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Jianchu Xu, Kevin D. Hyde and Peter E. Mortimer. 2016. Laccaria rubroalba sp. nov. (Hydnangiaceae, Agaricales) from Southwestern China. Phytotaxa. 284(1):41-50. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.284.1.4
