Corresponding author: Junaid Khan (
Academic editor: K. Hosaka
A new species,
Khan J, Sher H, Naseer A, Khalid AN (2017)
The genus
Collections were made on routine mycological visits to the moist temperate
Microscopic characters are based on free hand sections from fresh and dried specimens mounted in 5% (w/v) aqueous Potassium Hydroxide (
DNA from herbarium specimens was extracted following the procedure mentioned in
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DNA Sequences were aligned using online webPRANK tool at
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Phylogenetic relationship of
The
Phylogenetic relationship of
PAKISTAN. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Swat district, Malam Jabba valley, 1950 m alt., 25 July 2015, Junaid Khan, MJ-1590, (holotype: SWAT000135).
Basidiomata medium to large, pileus convex to convex-campanulate with a broad umbo in young stages, light yellowish brown to deep yellowish brown, surface dry, hygrophanous, squamose to squamose-granulose with striate margin; basidiospores limoniform, coarsely verrucose with partly concrescent verrucae.
PAKISTAN, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Swat district, Malam Jabba valley, Kishawra village. PAKISTAN Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Shangla district, Toa valley.
Associated with
The epithet “
The species is very rare and is currently reported from two locations in the districts of Shangla and Swat in the northern areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.
Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Shangla district, Toa valley, 2000 m alt., among decomposing litter under
Morphologically,
Based on phylogenetic evidence,
Morphological comparison of
Characters/ Species | Size of fruiting body | Color | Surface features | Size and shape of basidiospores | Ornamentation | Associated with |
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Light yellowish brown to deep yellowish brown with or without olivaceous tinge | Squamose to squamose-granulose, margin striated | 11.5–13 × 6.7–8.6 µm, Q = 1.5, limoniform | Coarsely verrucose, verrucae partly concrescent |
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Melleous ocher to dark brown | Radially wrinkled, sprinkled with concentrically arranged, small, floccose scales | 12–16 × 8–9 µm , limoniform | Coarsely verrucose | |||
Dark brown to ochraceus | Densely appressed fibrillose-squamulose, striated at the margin, | 9.5–12 × 6–7 µm, sub–limoniform | Verrucose with smooth mucro | |||
Yellowish to reddish-brownish | Distinctly slimy, radially wrinkled, striated at the margin | 10–13 × 5–6.5 µm, amygdaliform–limoniform | Isolated minute warts |
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Reddish brown to liver brown | Deeply wrinkled at the center and radially veined, striate near the margin, veil remnants absent | 8–11.5 × 5–6 µm, amygdaliform | Minutely warted |
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Fuscous with slight olivaceous tinge to date brown when moist, becoming rich brownish ochraceous with olivaceous tinge | Strongly rugulose, with small, floccose, loose scales | 12–14.5 × 7–8 µm, limoniform | Strongly verrucose by isolated warts | |||
Dark brown with a olive-greenish tinge | Slimy, without squamules, margin striated and there wrinkled | 12.5–15 × 7–8 µm, amygdaliform | Strongly warted |
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The authors are highly thankful to Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) for their financial support under NRPU project. We are also indebted to Prof. Dr. Ursula Peintner (Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck) and Dr. Shah Hussain (Center for Plant Sciences and Biodiversity, University of Swat, Pakistan) for their pre-submission review and technical suggestions for shaping this manuscript.