Abstract
Thirty-seven years after the first collection in Cuba, Mycelephas robustus has been found in the Brazilian Amazon. The rediscovery of this species is also the first record of M. robustus in South America and the second in the world. A detailed morphological description is provided along with a comparative taxonomic discussion with the type specimen and with the only other known species, M. levisporus.
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Goos, R.D. (1987) Fungi with a twist: the helicosporous hyphomycetes. Mycologia 79: 1–22. https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3807740
Maués, B.A.R., Jardim, M.A.G., Batista, F.J., Medeiros, T.D.S. & Quaresma, A.C. (2011) Composição florística e estrutura do estrato inferior da floresta de várzea na área de proteção ambiental Ilha do Combu, município de Belém, estado do Pará. Revista Árvore 35 (3) suppl 1: 669–677. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-67622011000400011.
Monteiro, J.S., Sarmento, P.S.M. & Sotão, H.M.P. (2019) Saprobic conidial fungi associated with palm leaf litter in eastern Amazon, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 91: e20180545. https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3675201920180545
Neergaard, E., Lyshede, O.B., Gahoonia, T.S., Care, D. & Hooker, J.E. (2000) Anatomy and histology of roots and root-soil boundary. In: Smit, A.L., Bengough, A.G., Engels, C., Noordwijk, M., Pellerin, S. & Geijn, S.C. (Eds.) Root Methods: A Handbook. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 33–73. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04188-8_2
Rodrigues, L.M.B., Lira, A.U.S., Santos, F.A. & Jardim, M.A.G. (2006) Composição florística e usos das espécies vegetais de dois ambientes de floresta de várzea. Revista Brasileira de Farmácia 87: 45–48.
Santos, R.F., Sotão, H.M.P., Monteiro, J.S., Gusmão, L.F.P. & Hernández-Gutiérrez, A. (2018) Conidial fungi associated with leaf litter of red cedar (Cedrela odorata) in Belém, Pará (Eastern Brazilian Amazon). Acta Amazonica 48 (3): 230–238. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201704411
Seifert, K., Morgan-Jones, G., Gams, W. & Kendrick, B. (2011) The Genera of Hyphomycetes. CBS Biodiversity Series no. 9, CBSKNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands, 997 pp.
Trappe, J.M. & Schenck, N.C. (1982) Taxonomy of fungi forming endomycorrhizae. In: Schenck, N.C. (Ed.) Methods and Principles of Mycorrizal Research. The American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, pp. 1–9.