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Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-10
Page range: 283–289
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Gliophorus flavoviridis, a new species in the family Hygrophoraceae from India

Department of Botany & Microbiology, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal – 246174, Uttarakhand, India.
Cryptogamic Unit, Botanical Survey of India, P.O. Botanic Garden, Howrah – 711103, India.
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Viale P.A. Mattioli 25, I-10125 Torino, Italy
Department of Botany & Microbiology, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal – 246174, Uttarakhand, India.
Department of Botany & Microbiology, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal – 246174, Uttarakhand, India.
Department of Botany & Microbiology, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal – 246174, Uttarakhand, India.
Basidiomycota Hygrocyboideae nrITS taxonomy Uttarakhand Fungi

Abstract

Gliophorus flavoviridis (sect. Gliophorus) a new species and lookalike of European G. psittacinus is described and illustrated from Indian Himalaya based on the morphological characters and phylogenetic inference. This species is mainly characterized by a yellowish green slightly viscid pileus with a translucent-striate, crisped margin, yellowish sinuate lamellae with various lengths of lamellulae, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid basidiospores, basal non-toruloid clamp connections on basidia, an ixotrichoderm type of pileipellis and stipitipellis, and an absence of ixocheilocystidia. The present communication deals with the morphology and nrITS-based phylogeny of this undescribed species. Allied taxa are duly compared.