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Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-21
Page range: 260–268
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A new species and a new record of Parasola from Kerala State, India

Department of Botany, University of Calicut, Kerala, 673635, India
Department of Botany, University of Calicut, Kerala, 673635, India
Agaricales Basidomycota phylogeny Psathyrellaceae taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

Two species of Parasola, P. parvula sp. nov. and P. lilatincta are described from Kerala State, India, based on both morphology and molecular phylogeny. Descriptions with photographs of both the basidiocarps and the micro-structures and comparison with morphologically similar and phylogenetically related species are provided. Sequences of both the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) and the nuclear ribosomal large subunit (nLSU) region of the two species were obtained and used in BLASTn searches. Phylogenetic study was based on Maximum likelihood (ML) analysis of the ITS sequences.