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Type: Article
Published: 2015-09-09
Page range: 18–26
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Hygrocybe rubroalba (Hygrophoraceae, Agaricales), a new species of sect. Firmae from Brazil

Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Viale P.A. Mattioli 25, I-10125 Torino, Italy
Via D’ Alviano 86, I-34144, Trieste, Italy
Natural History Museum, Corso Italia 63, I-36078 Valdagno (VI), Italy
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Viale P.A. Mattioli 25, I-10125 Torino, Italy
Agaricomycetes Basidiomycota ITS and LSU sequences taxonomy Fungi Brazil

Abstract

A new Hygrocybe species with dimorphic basidia and spores, H. rubroalba, is described based on morphological and molecular data. Its peculiar features are a dry, bright red to purplish red, not or very slightly depressed pileus surface, and pure white lamellae that are adnate or emarginate rather than decurrent. It is phylogenetically close to H. martinicensis in sect. Firmae.