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Issue: Vol. 652 No. 2: 5 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-05
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.652.2.7
Page range: 149-156
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Leucopaxillus pakistanicus, a new species of (Tricholomataceae: Basidiomycota) from the coniferous forest of Pakistan

Department of Botany, University of Malakand, Chakdara 18800, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Department of Botany, University of Malakand, Chakdara 18800, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Fungal Biology and Systematics Research Laboratory, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore 54590, Punjab, Pakistan
Macrofungi Leucopaxillus taxonomy phylogeny Skyland forest Fungi

Abstract

Leucopaxillus pakistanicus sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Upper Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, based on a comprehensive description of morphology and phylogeny. Leucopaxillus pakistanicus is characterized by brick red or red-brown, slightly thin fleshed, creamy short and decurrent thick lamellae, long, slender and fistulose stipe, glutulated and thick-walled basidiospores and subcapitate cheilocystidia. Phylogenetically, this is a distinct species although closely related to Leucopaxillus amarus, Leucopaxillus laterarius and Leucopaxillus gentianeus.

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