A new species of Psathyrella (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) from Italy

By

Sicoli, Giovanni
Passalacqua, Nicodemo G.
De Giuseppe, Antonio B.
Palermo, Anna Maria
Pellegrino, Giuseppe

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019

Original Publication

NeoBiota : advancing research on alien species and biological invasions

Volume

52

Pages

89-102

Subjects

Agaricomycetes , Basidiomycota , Fen-sedge , Marshes , southern Italy , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sophia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.52.31415

 

Abstract

Sporophores of a newPsathyrellaspecies have been reported for the first time as growing at the base ofCladiummariscusculms in the Botanical Garden of the University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, southern Italy. The fungus was initially identified asP.thujina(=P.almerensis) by means of both ecology and macro- and microscopic characteristics of the basidiomes, then referred toP.cladii-mariscisp. nov. after extraction, amplification, purification and analysis of the rDNA ITS region. We came to this conclusion after comparing our specimen with the descriptions of the taxa available in the literature for the genusPsathyrella.