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MycoKeys 2020 14;69:91-109. Epub 2020 Jul 14.

Engineering Research Center of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Ministry of Education, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China Northeast Normal University Changchun China.

is an important ectomycorrhizal genus that forms a symbiotic relationship with certain trees, shrubs and herbs. Recently, we began studying in China and here we describe three new species of Cortinarius subg. Telamonia based on morphological and ecological characteristics, together with phylogenetic analyses. Read More

MycoKeys 2020 7;68:115-135. Epub 2020 Jul 7.

Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China Qingdao Agricultural University Qingdao China.

is a polypore genus with white to cream or buff basidiomata, whose species in Hymenochaetales are poorly known. We study the phylogeny and diversity of based on our recent collections from tropic and subtropic Asian-Pacific regions. Phylogenetic analyses based on the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and nuclear large subunit (nLSU) ribosomal RNA gene regions indicate that ten terminal lineages are well supported within . Read More

PLoS One 2020 1;15(5):e0232467. Epub 2020 May 1.

Departamento de Botânica e Zoologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemática e Evolução, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Basidiomata of Phallales have a diversified morphology with adhesive gleba that exudes an odor, usually unpleasant that attracts mainly insects, which disperse the basidiospores. The genus Blumenavia belongs to the family Clathraceae and, based on morphological features, only two species are currently recognized: B. rhacodes and B. Read More

Fungal Syst Evol 2018 Dec 23;2:341-359. Epub 2018 Oct 23.

Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Viale P.A. Mattioli 25, I-10125 Torino, Italy.

The monotypic genus is described as new to science based on This species occurs widely in eastern North America and Central America. It is reported for the first time from a neotropical montane pine woodland in the Dominican Republic. The confirmation of this newly recognised monophyletic genus is supported and molecularly confirmed by phylogenetic inference based on multiple loci (ITS, 28S, and ). Read More

MycoKeys 2018 3(37):93-107. Epub 2018 Aug 3.

Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China Beijing Forestry University Beijing China.

Three new species of s.l. with corticioid basidiomata are described and illustrated from southern China based on morphological evidence and phylogenetic analyses of ITS and nrLSU sequence data. Read More

MycoKeys 2018 10(36):21-33. Epub 2018 Jul 10.

Via G. Canestrini 10/B, I-38028, Revò (TN), Italy.

is described from Italy as a new species based both on morphological and molecular nrITS/nrLSU data. It belongs in sect. Rufobrunnea and is characterised by massive tricholomatoid basidiomata with reddish-brown tinges, adnate and crowded lamellae, an enlarged stipe base with long rhizomorphs, long sinuose slender cheilocystidia, ellipsoid basidiospores and the presence of caulocystidia. Read More

MycoKeys 2018 8(30):73-89. Epub 2018 Mar 8.

Beijing advanced innovation center for tree breeding by molecular design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, PR China.

, and are described and illustrated as new species based on morphological characters and molecular evidence. They have annual to perennial, mostly resupinate basidiomata with grayish fresh pores, an indistinct subiculum, lack any kind of setae, have brownish, thick-walled basidiospores, and cause a white rot. The distinctive morphological characters of the new species and their related species are discussed. Read More

Int J Med Mushrooms 2017 ;19(2):145-154

State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; ITPB-IMCAS Key Joint Laboratory of Alpine Fungi, Lhasa, China.

Agaricus bisporus is one of the most important commercially cultivated culinary-medicinal mushrooms worldwide. In China, most of the cultivated strains of the fungus were introduced from other countries and cultivated in the eastern provinces. In this study, 2 wild strains of A. Read More

Mycologia 2015 Jan-Feb;107(1):227-38. Epub 2014 Nov 6.

Institute of Microbiology, Leopold-Franzens University, Technikerstraβe 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.

The potential of 3-D nondestructive imaging techniques such as micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) was evaluated to study morphological patterns of the potential medicinal fungus Hericium coralloides (Basidiomycota). Micro-CT results were correlated with histological information gained from scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and light microscopy (LM). It is demonstrated that the combination of these imaging methods results in a more distinct picture of the morphology of the edible and potentially medicinal Hericium coralloides basidiomata. Read More

Mycologia 2014 Jul-Aug;106(4):708-22. Epub 2014 May 29.

Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Max-von-Laue-Str. 13, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Delimitation of species and the search for a proper threshold for defining phylogenetic species in fungi are under discussion. In this study, morphological and molecular data are correlated to delimit species of Tulasnella, the most important mycobionts of Orchidaceae, which suffer from poor taxonomy. Resupinate basidiomata of Tulasnella species were collected in Ecuador and Germany, and 11 specimens (seven from Ecuador, four from Germany) were assigned to traditional species concepts by use of morphological keys. Read More

IMA Fungus 2012 Dec 5;3(2):117-23. Epub 2012 Nov 5.

Avda. Valvanera 32, 5.° dcha. 26500 Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain.

The new species Leucoagaricus variicolor is described from a public park in Zaragoza, Spain, based on both morphological and molecular characters. Illustrations of fresh basidiomata in situ and of the main macro- and micromorphological features are added. Leucoagaricusvariicolor belongs to section Piloselli and is compared with similar taxa. Read More

Mycologia 2012 Nov-Dec;104(6):1502-9. Epub 2012 Jun 6.

Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy.

A new species of Cortinarius, C. flavoaurantians sp. nov. Read More

Mycologia 2011 Jan-Feb;103(1):203-8. Epub 2010 Aug 31.

Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università di Torino, Viale Mattioli 25, 10125 Torino, Italy.

A new species of Infundibulicybe (viz. I. mediterranea sp. Read More

Mycologia 2009 Jul-Aug;101(4):535-8

Laboratorio de Micología Experimental, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A new species, Geastrum episcopale, is described from Argentina. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of fresh and dry basidiomata are provided along with photographs of microscopic elements, such as spores, capillitium, calcium oxalate crystals, and exo- and endoperidium surfaces. This fungus is typical of the genus in its morphology and ecology but clearly differs from every known species. Read More

Mycol Res 2007 Dec 9;111(Pt 12):1399-405. Epub 2007 Oct 9.

Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, ES-28871 Madrid, Spain.

After reconsidering the specific characters of Omphalia giovanellae and applying data from the sequences of the D1-D2 domain of the 28S rRNA gene and the ITS region of material collected in Italy and Spain, the species is ascribed to the genus Clitopilus. Considering the rather peculiar characters, especially the smooth spores, C. giovanellae is ascribed to the new section Omphaloidei sect. Read More

Mycologia 2004 Jul-Aug;96(4):845-58

PRHIDEB-CONICET, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1428), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Instituto Fitotécnico de Santa Catalina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales, Llavallol, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Macro- and micromorphological characters of specimens of the genus Pleurotus (Fr.) P. Kumm. Read More

Bioresour Technol 2004 Jan;91(1):85-91

Department of Plant Pathology, Mushroom Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 316 Buckhout Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

To find a cost effective alternative substrate, Pleurotus cornucopiae 608 (yellow basidiomata) was grown on: (1) chopped, pasteurized switch grass (Panicum virgatum, 99%) with 1% ground limestone and (2) a mixture of pasteurized cottonseed hulls (75% dry wt.), 24% chopped wheat straw, and 1% ground limestone (all ingredients wt./wt. Read More