<i>Calvatia guzmanii sp. nov.</i> (Agaricaceae, Basidiomycota) from Paraná State, Brazil

CAMILA R. ALVES; VAGNER G. CORTEZ

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.85.2.1

Issue: Vol. 85 No. 2: 8 Mar. 2013

Type: Article

Published: 2013-03-08

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.85.2.1

Page range: 35–40

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Calvatia guzmanii sp. nov. (Agaricaceae, Basidiomycota) from Paraná State, Brazil

CAMILA R. ALVES⁺⁻
VAGNER G. CORTEZ⁺⁻

Neotropical fungi mycobiota puffball taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of Calvatia is described from a semideciduous seasonal forest fragment in the western region of Paraná State, southern Brazil. Calvatia guzmanii is proposed as new based on the combination of dark brown and spiny to velvety exoperidium, prominent subgleba and echinulate-reticulate basidiospores with a short pedicel. A comparison with morphologically similar Calvatia species is giv