A new species of Lepiota, Lepiota lahorensis, from Lahore, Pakistan

Qasim, Tayyaba; Khalid, Abdul Nasir; Vellinga, Else C.

doi:10.3906/bot-1507-31

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“…Gray (1821: 601) are saprobes in nature (Singer 1986;Vellinga 2004) and globally distributed from tropical to temperate areas and are infrequent in deserts and arctic-alpine habitats (Vellinga 2004) with more than 500 species worldwide (Singer 1986;Kirk et al 2008;Razaq et al 2012;Nawaz et al 2013;Qasim et al 2015;Sysouphanthong et. al 2016;Bashir et al 2020;Niazi et al 2021), including more than 30 species reported from Pakistan (Ahmad et al 1997;Kirk et al 2008;Kumar & Manimohan 2009;Liang & Yang 2011;Nawaz et al 2013;Razaq et al 2012;2014;Qasim et al 2015;Qasim et al 2016;Bashir et al 2020;Niazi et al 2021). The genus Lepiota is characterized by its white to pale, mostly dextrinoid basidiospores that have different shapes i.e.…”

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Lepiota brunneogranulosa (Agaricaceae): a new species from Punjab, Pakistan, based on integrated taxonomy

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During our surveys of mushrooms in 2019 and 2020, an interesting species of the genus Lepiota was collected from three different areas of Punjab (Bahawalnagar, Sheikhupura, and Muzaffarghar), Pakistan. These areas vary in their altitude and somewhat climatic conditions, nevertheless, morpho-anatomical comparisons and molecular analyses proved that these collections represented the same taxon, described here as Lepiota brunneogranulosa. This new species is characterized by a pileus with a yellowish-brown central disc, with brown colored granules on a very pale brown background, dextrinoid, ellipsoid basidiospores, frequently bi-sporic basidia, and narrowly clavate cheilocystidia. Because of the hymeniform pileus covering, and the placement in the phylogeny, based on Internal Transcribed Spacer (nrITS) and Larger Subunit (LSU), it belongs to the Lepiota sect. Lilaceae.

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