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Type: Article
Published: 2015-06-15
Page range: 102–112
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A new species of the genus Corneriella from India supported by morphological and molecular data

Department of Botany, University of Calicut, Kerala, 673 635, India
Department of Botany, University of Calicut, Kerala, 673 635, India
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996-1610, USA
Department of Botany, University of Calicut, Kerala, 673 635, India
Agaricales Basidiomycota phylogeny taxonomy India Fungi

Abstract

Corneriella indica sp. nov. is described from Kerala State, India. Comprehensive description, photographs, and comparisons with phenetically similar species are provided. Maximum likelihood analysis conducted on a concatenated dataset comprising ITS, nLSU, nSSU and rpb2 of the Tricholomataceae supported the generic placement and species validity of C. indica. Conspicuous cheilocystidia, one of the defining features of the genus, are missing in C. indica but the lamella edges are still sterile and composed of projecting tramal hyphae with cystidioid terminal elements.