{"title":"Morpho-molecular analysis of two new species <i>Deconica</i> and <i>Entocybe</i> in Agaricales from Mount Tianmu, China.","authors":"Yu-Yu Shen, Zi-Wen Zhang, Wen-Qian Li, Xing-Ning Liu, Fei-Ying Tian, Chun-Mei Pang, Wen-Hong Dai, Yao-Bin Song, Ming Dong","doi":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.131298","DOIUrl":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.131298","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two new species of Agaricales, <i>Deconicaflavum</i> and <i>Entocyberoseoalbus</i>, are described from Mount Tianmu, Zhejiang Province, Eastern China. Two new species are distinct and monophyletic based on morphology and phylogenetic analyses. <i>Deconicaflavum</i> differs from other <i>Deconica</i> species in that the pileus is brow shallow in the center and stipe with yellowish white fibrils, scatted on litter under coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest at 1162 m. <i>Entocyberoseoalbus</i> is distinguished from other species of <i>Entocybe</i> by nearly blue pileus and pinkish-white stipe, scatted on humus in similar forest conditions at 1025 m. The differences are discussed between the two new taxa and their similar species morphologically, and related species phylogenetically.</p>","PeriodicalId":48720,"journal":{"name":"Mycokeys","volume":"109 ","pages":"319-336"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11522738/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MycokeysPub Date : 2024-10-22eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.109.133325
Lin-Jiang Zhou, Xue-Long Li, Hai-Sheng Yuan
{"title":"Three new wood-inhabiting fungi of <i>Botryobasidium</i> (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) from subtropical forests of Southwestern China.","authors":"Lin-Jiang Zhou, Xue-Long Li, Hai-Sheng Yuan","doi":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.133325","DOIUrl":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.133325","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The basidiomycete genus <i>Botryobasidium</i> is a resupinate saprotrophic with a global distribution range from coniferous to broad-leaved forest ecosystems. Though numerous species have been reported from Eurasia and North America, few have been described from China. In the current work, phylogenetic analyses of <i>Botryobasidium</i> in China were conducted based on the dataset of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions and the large subunit (LSU) of nuclear ribosomal RNA gene. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses were used to reconstruct the phylogenetic tree, and three new species, namely <i>Botryobasidiumacanthosporum</i>, <i>B.leptocystidiatum</i> and <i>B.subovalibasidium</i>, were described from subtropical forests of Yunnan Province, Southwestern China. <i>Botryobasidiumacanthosporum</i> is characterized by having yellowish white to dark yellow basidiome, clavate to tubular cystidia, and subglobose to globose basidiospores with obtuse spines. <i>Botryobasidiumleptocystidiatum</i> is characterized by having fluffy to arachnoid, greyish white to ivory basidiome, generative hyphae with clamped, tubular cystidia, and subnavicular to navicular basidiospores. While, <i>B.subovalibasidium</i> is characterized by having yellowish to ivory basidiome, subovoid basidia, navicular to suburniform basidiospores, and thick-walled chlamydospores. These three new species are described and illustrated, and the discriminating characters between the new species and their closely related species are discussed. A key to known species of <i>Botryobasidium</i> in China is provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":48720,"journal":{"name":"Mycokeys","volume":"109 ","pages":"337-354"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11522739/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two new species of <i>Cytospora</i> (Diaporthales, Cytosporaceae) causing canker disease of <i>Malusdomestica</i> and <i>M.sieversii</i> in Xinjiang, China.","authors":"Guifang Cai, Ying Zhao, Yawei Zhai, Meilin Yan, Rong Ma, Daoyuan Zhang","doi":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.131456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.109.131456","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Apple tree canker is a serious disease caused by species of <i>Cytospora</i>. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is one of the most important apple-producing areas in China. However, losses due to apple <i>Cytospora</i> canker have seriously damaged the apple industry and affected the economic development of the apple growers in this region. In this study, we used morphological characteristics combined with multilocus phylogenetic analyses of the ITS, <i>act</i>, <i>rpb2</i>, <i>tef1</i> and <i>tub2</i> loci to identify isolates from apple (<i>Malusdomestica</i>) and wild apple (<i>M.sieversii</i>). As a result, <i>C.hippophaopsis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> from <i>M.sieversii and C.shawanensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> from <i>M.domestica</i> were discovered and proposed herein. Pathogenicity tests were further conducted on 13 varieties of apple and wild apple, which confirmed <i>C.hippophaopsis</i> and <i>C.shawanensis</i> as canker pathogens. Meanwhile, <i>C.hippophaopsis</i> is generally more aggressive than <i>C.shawanensis</i> on the tested varieties of apple and wild apple.</p>","PeriodicalId":48720,"journal":{"name":"Mycokeys","volume":"109 ","pages":"305-318"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11499669/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MycokeysPub Date : 2024-10-14eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.109.126029
Heng Zhao, Yong Nie, Bo Huang, Xiao-Yong Liu
{"title":"Unveiling species diversity within early-diverging fungi from China I: three new species of <i>Backusella</i> (Backusellaceae, Mucoromycota).","authors":"Heng Zhao, Yong Nie, Bo Huang, Xiao-Yong Liu","doi":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.126029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.109.126029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The species diversity of early-diverging fungi has long lagged behind that of higher fungi, posing a significant obstacle to our comprehensive understanding of the fungal kingdom. Our ongoing research endeavors aim to address this gap by exploring the species diversity of early-diverging fungi in China. In this study, we describe three novel species within the <i>Backusella</i>, namely <i>B.elliptica</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, <i>B.fujianensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, and <i>B.variispora</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, based on phylogenetic and morphological analyses. In the phylogenetic analysis of the ITS (internal transcribed spacer), LSU (large subunit of ribosomal RNA gene), and RPB1 (RNA polymerase II largest subunit gene) regions, the <i>B.elliptica</i> and <i>B.fujianensis</i> cluster closely with <i>B.gigacellularis</i>, <i>B.ovalispora</i>, and <i>B.solicola</i>, and the <i>B.variispora</i> is closely related to <i>B.locustae</i> and <i>B.pernambucensis</i>. Morphologically, <i>B.elliptica</i> is distinguished by elliptical sporangiospores, as well as cylindrical and hemispherical columellae. The <i>B.fujianensis</i> is characterized by elliptical sporangiospores, and various types of columellae such as hemispherical, subglobose, depressed globose and conical. The <i>B.variispora</i> is characterized by subglobose to globose sporangiospores, as well as hemispherical, subglobose to globose columellae. Additionally, the sporangiophores are long and monopodially branched in <i>B.elliptica</i> and <i>B.fujianensis</i>, while short and simple or sympodially branched in <i>B.variispora</i>. Physiologically, the maximum growth temperatures of <i>B.elliptica</i> (32 °C), <i>B.fujianensis</i> (35 °C), and <i>B.variispora</i> were (35 °C) were determined. With the inclusion of these newly described taxa, the total number of <i>Backusella</i> species known from China now stands at 12. Finally, we provide a key to facilitate the morphological identification of <i>Backusella</i> species from Asia.</p>","PeriodicalId":48720,"journal":{"name":"Mycokeys","volume":"109 ","pages":"285-304"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11494212/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MycokeysPub Date : 2024-10-11eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.109.133431
Mengting Zou, Fatimah Al-Otibi, Kevin David Hyde, Yong Wang, Xue-Jun Pan
{"title":"New <i>Helminthosporium</i> (Massarinaceae, Dothideomycetes) and <i>Nigrospora</i> (Incertae sedis, Sordariomycetes) species associated with walnut (<i>Juglansregia</i> L.) in China.","authors":"Mengting Zou, Fatimah Al-Otibi, Kevin David Hyde, Yong Wang, Xue-Jun Pan","doi":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.133431","DOIUrl":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.133431","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Six collections of ascomycetes were obtained from samples collected from dead branches and leaves of <i>Juglansregia</i> in Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, China. By incorporating multigene phylogenetic analysis (ITS, LSU, <i>rpb2</i>, SSU, <i>tef1-α</i>, <i>tub2</i>) supplemented by morphological data, we establish two novel species, namely <i>Helminthosporiumguizhouense</i> and <i>Nigrosporayunnanensis</i>. In morphology, <i>H.guizhouense</i> can be distinguished from <i>H.caespitosum</i> by its narrower conidia (13-16 µm vs. 27.3-35.5 µm), and <i>N.yunnanensis</i> is characterized by black, globose conidia (16.2 × 14.4 µm). The phylogenetic results further substantiated them as novel taxa. The present study contributes to our comprehension of the range of fungi found in <i>Juglansregia</i>, thereby expanding our knowledge of the diversity of fungi within this host.</p>","PeriodicalId":48720,"journal":{"name":"Mycokeys","volume":"109 ","pages":"265-284"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11489710/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MycokeysPub Date : 2024-10-10eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.109.134136
Ying Gao, Tingfang Zhong, Prapassorn Damrongkool Eungwanichayapant, Ruvishika S Jayawardena, Kevin D Hyde, Turki Kh Faraj, Dhanushka N Wanasinghe, Heng Gui
{"title":"Two new species of <i>Parastagonospora</i> and a new species of <i>Phaeoseptoriella</i> (Phaeosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales) from grasslands in Yunnan Province, China.","authors":"Ying Gao, Tingfang Zhong, Prapassorn Damrongkool Eungwanichayapant, Ruvishika S Jayawardena, Kevin D Hyde, Turki Kh Faraj, Dhanushka N Wanasinghe, Heng Gui","doi":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.134136","DOIUrl":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.134136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During our investigation of microfungi on grasslands in Yunnan Province, China, three new fungal taxa associated with grasses were collected. Morphological observations and phylogenetic analyses of the combined SSU, LSU, ITS, <i>tef1-α</i>, and <i>rpb2</i> loci based on maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference were used to reveal the taxonomic placement of these fungal taxa. This study introduces <i>Parastagonosporayunnanensis</i>, <i>Para.zhaotongensis</i>, <i>Phaeoseptoriellapoaceicola. Parastagonosporayunnanensis</i> is characterized by ampulliform or globose to subglobose conidiogenous cells, with conidia that are cylindrical to subcylindrical, 0-1-septate, rounded at the apex and slightly truncate at the base. <i>Parastagonosporazhaotongensis</i> features similar globose to subglobose conidiogenous cells but with 0-3-septate, cylindrical to subcylindrical conidia. <i>Phaeoseptoriellapoaceicola</i> is distinguished by its globose to subglobose conidiogenous cells and phragmosporous conidia that are initially hyaline, turn pale yellowish at maturity, and are 7-septate, cylindrical to subcylindrical, either straight or slightly curved. These discoveries underscore the significance of exploring and accurately identifying fungal taxa within Ascomycota, highlighting the species richness and potential for new species discoveries in grass-based habitats. The findings from this study expand our understanding of the taxonomy and phylogeny of grassland-associated Ascomycota, providing a foundation for further ecological and taxonomic studies of these fungi within their natural environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":48720,"journal":{"name":"Mycokeys","volume":"109 ","pages":"239-263"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11487144/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MycokeysPub Date : 2024-10-09eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.109.131000
Xing-Xing Luo, Ming-Gen Liao, Kai Zhang, Rafael F Castañeda-Ruíz, Jian Ma, Zhao-Huan Xu
{"title":"Morphological and phylogenetic analyses reveal eight novel species of <i>Pestalotiopsis</i> (Sporocadaceae, Amphisphaeriales) from southern China.","authors":"Xing-Xing Luo, Ming-Gen Liao, Kai Zhang, Rafael F Castañeda-Ruíz, Jian Ma, Zhao-Huan Xu","doi":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.131000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.109.131000","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plants play an important role in maintaining the ecological balance of the biosphere, but often suffer from pathogenic fungi during growth. During our continuing mycological surveys of plant pathogens from terrestrial plants in Jiangxi and Yunnan provinces, China, 24 strains of <i>Pestalotiopsis</i> isolated from diseased and healthy tissues of plant leaves represented eight new species, viz. <i>P.alpinicola</i>, <i>P.camelliicola</i>, <i>P.cyclosora</i>, <i>P.eriobotryae</i>, <i>P.gardeniae</i>, <i>P.hederae</i>, <i>P.machiliana</i> and <i>P.mangifericola</i>. Multi-locus (ITS, <i>tef1-α</i> and <i>tub2</i>) phylogenetic analyses were performed using maximum-likelihood and Bayesian inference to reveal their taxonomic placement within <i>Pestalotiopsis</i>. Both molecular phylogenetic analyses and morphological comparisons supported them as eight independent taxa within <i>Pestalotiopsis</i>. Illustrations and descriptions of these eight taxa were provided, in conjunction with comparisons with closely related taxa in the genus. This work highlights the large potential for new fungal species associated with diseased plant leaves.</p>","PeriodicalId":48720,"journal":{"name":"Mycokeys","volume":"109 ","pages":"207-238"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11484642/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three novel Ascomycota (Saccharomycetes, Saccharomycetales) yeast species derived from the traditional Mexican alcoholic beverage Pulque.","authors":"Chunyue Chai, Dan Lu, Jinli Liu, Eentao Wang, Xuemei Han, Fengli Hui","doi":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.123870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.109.123870","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The abundant variety of yeasts and their diverse applications have essential roles in traditional Mexican alcoholic beverage fermentation processes. During our investigation of yeast diversity associated with Pulque, 41 yeast strains were characterized. Among them, 31 strains were eight known species belonging to seven genera. According to morphological and phylogenetic analyses (ITS and LSU rDNA), ten unidentified yeast strains were identified to be three novel species and proposed: <i>Starmerellaelongatum</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, <i>Kazachstaniaparagamospora</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> and <i>Pichiateotihuacanensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> Our study has resulted in the isolation of yeast species not previously detected in Pulque, expanding our knowledge of the diversity of its associated yeast communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48720,"journal":{"name":"Mycokeys","volume":"109 ","pages":"187-206"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11484639/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two new species of <i>Pholiota</i> (Agaricales, Strophariaceae) from the southwest of China.","authors":"Jia-Hui Huang, Chun-Yu Lei, Ya-Lun Shen, En-Jing Tian","doi":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.133879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.109.133879","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two new mushroom species from Southwest China, <i>Pholiotacylindrospora</i> and <i>P.subterrestris</i>, are described in this study. <i>Pholiotacylindrospora</i> is characterized by its dry pileus with slightly recurved and triangular scales, cylindrical basidiospores, and two types of pleurocystidia-leptocystidia and chrysocystidia-as well as its growth on soil. <i>Pholiotasubterrestris</i> is identified by a brownish-orange pileus with numerous brown fibrillose scales; pale brown lamellae with even edges; a stipe covered with recurved fibrillose scales; elliptical spores with a distinct but small germ pore; and pleurocystidia containing typical amorphous refractive inclusions of chrysocystidia. Both species are described and illustrated, and a phylogenetic analysis of a multigene dataset (ITS + 28S) is presented. Morphological and phylogenetic analyses confirm that <i>P.cylindrospora</i> and <i>P.subterrestris</i> are distinct from the other Pholiota species, and both belong to the subgenus Pholiota. A key to the species of subgenus Pholiota from China is provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":48720,"journal":{"name":"Mycokeys","volume":"109 ","pages":"171-185"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11480669/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MycokeysPub Date : 2024-10-03eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.109.127606
Eugene Yurchenko, Ewald Langer, Janett Riebesehl
{"title":"A high species diversity of <i>Lyomyces</i> (Basidiomycota, Hymenochaetales) in Central and South America, revealed after morphological and molecular analysis.","authors":"Eugene Yurchenko, Ewald Langer, Janett Riebesehl","doi":"10.3897/mycokeys.109.127606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.109.127606","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study of corticioid fungi collections from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador has resulted in the identification of 26 morphospecies of <i>Lyomyces</i>. These distinctions were made based on characters such as basidiospore size and shape, cystidia morphology, basidioma texture, and hymenial surface configuration. Sequences of rDNA ITS were obtained for 12 of these species, and their relationships to previously known taxa were illustrated using Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood reconstructions of the phylogeny. Protologues are given for 10 new species of <i>Lyomyces</i>: <i>L.boquetensis</i> (found in Panama, belonging to <i>L.sambuci</i> group), <i>L.granulosus</i> (from Costa Rica and Panama, related to <i>L.fimbriatus</i>), <i>L.napoensis</i> (from Ecuador, related to <i>L.elaeidicola</i>), <i>L.neocrustosus</i> (from Panama, <i>L.crustosus</i> group), <i>L.oleifer</i> (from Ecuador, <i>L.crustosus</i> group), <i>L.pantropicus</i> (from Panama and Ecuador, related to <i>L.microfasciculatus</i>), <i>L.orarius</i> (from Ecuador, <i>L.sambuci</i> group), <i>L.parvus</i> (from Costa Rica and Ecuador, <i>L.crustosus</i> group), <i>L.sceptrifer</i> (from Ecuador, related to <i>L.gatesiae</i>), and <i>L.subcylindricus</i> (from Panama, <i>L.crustosus</i> group). Macro- and micro-morphology illustrations are provided for these new species. Additionally, the range of <i>L.organensis</i> is extended to Ecuador. Scanning electron microscopy of crystalline deposits in basidiomata has shown the differences in crystal size and aggregation manner between species.</p>","PeriodicalId":48720,"journal":{"name":"Mycokeys","volume":"109 ","pages":"131-169"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11467506/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}