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Issue: Vol. 658 No. 3: 5 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-05
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.658.3.3
Page range: 251-260
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Onnia pakistanica sp. nov., (Hymenochaetaceae, Basidiomycota) from Pakistan

Government Graduate College for Women, Wahdat Colony, Lahore, Pakistan. Fungal Biology and Systematics Research Laboratory, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan.
Department of Botany, Division of Science and Technology, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan.
Fungal Biology and Systematics Research Laboratory, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan.
Fungal Biology and Systematics Research Laboratory, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan.
New species Genomic DNA Hymenochaetaceae Malam Jabba Morphology Phylogeny Fungi

Abstract

Onnia pakistanica, a novel species, is described from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. This species is distinguished from its closest kin, O. tibetica, by its unique rusty orange to clay-buff and fawn pileus, larger (5.0–10.1 × 2.5–9.0 μm) basidiospores, broader and fusoidal cystidioles (11.1–16 × 6.5–8.6 μm) and setae with more or less rounded at the tips and broader at the base. The taxonomic status of this species is supported by molecular phylogenetic analysis using ITS and combined ITS and LSU sequences. The presence of O. pakistanica in Pakistan also marks the first genus record from South Asia, adding to the significance of this discovery.

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