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Issue: Vol. 498 No. 2: 28 April 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-04-28
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.498.2.3
Page range: 104–112
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

A slender red species of Entoloma (Entolomataceae) from China

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China.
School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan, 621010, China.
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China.
Institute of Edible Fungi, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, 201106.
Soil and Fertilizer Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu, 610066, China.
Agaricales cuboid basidiospores phylogeny taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

A new species, Entoloma coccineum, is described from Sichuan Province of China. It is characterized by brilliant red, small and slender basidiomata with deeply decurrent lamellae, and cuboid basidiospores 7–11 μm. The combination of these morphological characters is very distinctive among the known taxa of Entoloma, and the molecular data of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and the nuclear ribosomal large subunit (nrLSU) sequences also show it to be an independent taxon. In this paper, the new species is morphologically described and illustrated in detail, phenotypic and phylogenetic closely related taxa are compared, and a phylogenetic tree based on the nrLSU sequences is presented.