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Issue: Vol. 239 No. 2: 23 December 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-23
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.239.2.2
Page range: 130–142
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

Species diversity within the Helvella crispa group (Ascomycota: Helvellaceae) in China

Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Science, Kunming, Yunnan, 650221, China Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
Institute of Mycology, Jilin Agriculture University, Changchun 130118 Jilin, China
Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Science, Kunming, Yunnan, 650221, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
aKey Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
white saddle-fungi new taxa phylogeny taxonomy China Fungi

Abstract

The white saddle-mushroom, a well-known European species, has long been named as Helvella crispa in China. In this study, phylogenetic analyses of combined ITS, nrLSU, tef1-α, rpb2 and mcm7 sequence data, showed that the Chinese H. crispa-like samples represent a species complex, which contains at least six phylogenetic species. Three of these species, H. involuta, H. orienticrispa and H. pseudoreflexa, are introduced as new species in this paper. The remaining two taxa are not described due to paucity of material. Among the six phylogenetic species, H. zhongtiaoensis is more closely related to European H. crispa than the remaining Chinese species. They are provided with descriptions, photographs and are compared with similar species. A key to the Chinese morphologically recognizable taxa of this complex is provided.