A new species of Pluteus section Celluloderma (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) from Southern Brazil

Abstract

Pluteus elvaniae is described as a new species belonging to Pluteus Section Celluloderma from Southern Brazil. The species was collected from a seasonal semidecidouous forest and it is morphologically characterized by brown pileus in fresh state, the pileus centre is venose-rugulose in dry state, with a short or indistinctly striate margin, and dermatocystidia with obtuse-rounded to obtuse apex and globose basidiospores