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Issue: Vol. 658 No. 3: 5 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-05
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.658.3.6
Page range: 280-288
Abstract views: 83
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A new species of Candolleomyces (Psathyrellaceae) from Pakistan

Department of Botany, Islamia College University, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Fungal Biology and Systematics Research Laboratory, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus 54590, Lahore, Pakistan.
Fungal Biology and Systematics Research Laboratory, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus 54590, Lahore, Pakistan.
Fungal Biology and Systematics Research Laboratory, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus 54590, Lahore, Pakistan.
Indus Riverbed systematics Punjab phylogenetic analysis Fungi

Abstract

A new species, Candolleomyces amygdaliformis, is described from Pakistan, based on morpho-anatomically, and phylogenetic analysis of combined ITS and LSU sequences. Morpho-anatomically, the new taxon is characterized by a light brownish gray pileus with a reddish brown center and a decurved margin, a light gray, shiny stipe, and amygdaliform to phaseoliform basidiospores. Phylogenetically it clusters with another species C. campanulatus from Pakistan. Illustrated morphological description, phylogenetic analyses and comparisons with morphologically similar or phylogenetically related species as well as a key to the known species from Pakistan are provided.

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