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Type: Article
Published: 2019-02-12
Page range: 33–44
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Three new species of Tricholoma from Costa Rica

Department of Biology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK 73034, USA
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
Institute of Systematic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY 10458 USA
neotropical fungi cryptic species convergent evolution speciation refugia Fungi

Abstract

Three new species of Tricholoma are described from Costa Rican montane forests with additional collections cited from the United States. The new species are Tricholoma felschii sp. nov., Tricholoma costaricense sp. nov. and Tricholoma atratum sp. nov. A discussion of Tricholoma luteomaculosum is also included. These taxa share morphological features of strong farinaceous odor and taste, pseudoparenchymatous pileal subcutis, and rugulose pileus at some stage of development. In addition, cheilocystidia occur in two of the taxa but not the third. Phylogenies are presented based on ITS sequences.