Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-01
Page range: 226–236
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 1

Leucoagaricus viridariorum (Agaricaceae, Agaricales), a new species from Spain

Avda. Valvanera 32, 5.º dcha. 26500 Calahorra, La Rioja, España.
C/ Andalucía 3, 4.º dcha. 26500 Calahorra, La Rioja, España.
Conselleria de Medi Ambient, Agricultura i Pesca. Carrer Gremi Corredors 10, 07009, Palma de Mallorca
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Università di Torino, Viale P.A. Mattioli 25, I-10125, Torino, Italy
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Università di Torino, Viale P.A. Mattioli 25, I-10125, Torino, Italy
Agaricomycetes Basidiomycota lepiotoid fungi phylogeny taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

Leucoagaricus viridariorum is proposed as a new species based on material collected in different areas of Spain. This taxon is characterised macroscopically by its small, whitish basidiomes, minutely squamulose-fibrillose pileus, evanescent ascendant annulus and growth in man-made environments. Microscopically, its subglobose to broadly ellipsoid spores, the clavate cheilocystidia and the trichodermic pileipellis are diagnostic. Based on molecular data of the internal transcribed spacer of nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrITS) this species belongs to the Leucoagaricus/Leucocoprinus clade of the Agaricaceae where it is sister to Leucoagaricus amanitoides.