During recent fieldwork at Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Pakistan), many basidiomycetes of the genus Cortinarius were collected from mixed coniferous Himalayan temperate forests. Their morphological characterization and phylogenetic analyses based on ITS and LSU sequence data yielded a well-delimited, new species within C. subgenus Telamonia sect Disjungendi. It is characterized by producing small and dry basidiomata with blackish brown conico-convex pilei when young and uplifted at maturity, dark brown lamellae, a fibrillose stipe and small basidiospores (9.4 × 5.5 µm in average).
Russula kashmiriana sp. nov (subg. Tenellula, sect. Laricinae) has been collected and described from Himalayan coniferous forests of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K), Pakistan. The taxon is characterized by bright reddish orange pileus with cracked margins and obvious reddish orange circle on the pileus, yellow context and light olive to yellowish amyloid basidiospores. Micro and macroscopic features along with molecular phylogenetic analysis based on large subunit (LSU) and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences data confirmed the status of Russula kashmiriana as a distinct species.
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