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Issue: Vol. 646 No. 1: 30 Apr. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-04-30
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.646.1.4
Page range: 58-66
Abstract views: 49
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A new species of Naematelia (Tremellales, Basidiomycota) from India

P.G. & Research Department of Botany, The Zamorin’s Guruvayurappan College (affiliated to the University of Calicut), Kerala, 673014, India
P.G. & Research Department of Botany, The Zamorin’s Guruvayurappan College (affiliated to the University of Calicut), Kerala, 673014, India
Fungi 1 new species heterobasidomycetes jelly fungi molecular phylogeny parasitic fungi tremellaceous fungi

Abstract

A new species of Naematelia, N. encephaloidea, was collected and described from Silent Valley National Park, Kerala State, India. It is characterized by two types of swollen cells in trama, thick-walled, non-germinating, and thin-walled, germinating; thick-walled, globose conidia; inflated cells in the trama; lack of hyphidia. The identity of the new species is confirmed by morphological characteristics, and ITS and LSU sequence based molecular study. A key to the known Naematelia species is also provided.

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