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Issue: Vol. 482 No. 3: 3 February 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-02-03
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.482.3.3
Page range: 251–260
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 2

Choiromyces cerebriformis (Tuberaceae), a new hypogeous species from Yunnan, China

Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming 650223 Yunnan, China. Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100 Thailand.
Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100 Thailand. School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100 Thailand.
Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming 650223 Yunnan, China.
Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming 650223 Yunnan, China. Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100 Thailand.
Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming 650223 Yunnan, China.
Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming 650223 Yunnan, China.
College of Agriculture & Biological Sciences, Dali University, Dali 671003, Yunnan, China.
Yongren Yesenda Fungus Industry Co.LTD, Chuxiong 651499, Yunnan, China.
Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming 650223 Yunnan, China.
ITS False Truffle One new species Phylogeny Taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

A new hypogeous species, Choiromyces cerebriformis sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Yunnan province, China. Both morphological evidence and sequence analyses of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) support the species as new to science. C. cerebriformis differs from other Choiromyces species in having ascomata with larger lobes and light orange-brown gleba, and globose ascospores with short stick-like sparse spines ornamentation. Morphological differences and genetic distances with the similar species C. helanshanensis and C. alveolatus are discussed. A phenotypic key including related species is provided.