Novelties of gasteroid fungi, earthstars and puffballs, from the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest

Abstract

The goal of this study was to increase the knowledge of gasteroid fungi in Atlantic Forest biome, which is considered one of the most important hot-spots of the world. Field expeditions were carried out in the Reserva Biologica Municipal de Santa Rita Mitzi Brandao area, in the southeastern part of Minas Gerais. 39 samples belonging to 11 species of earthstars and puffballs are new record for Minas Gerais, Geastrum javanicum Lév., Bovista cunninghamii Kreisel, and Lycoperdon lambinonii Demoulin are first records for Brazil. Information about the locality, morphological characters, illustrations of the basidiomata, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of the basidiospores, as well as its distribution in Brazil, are given for all species.

Geastrum tupiense: a new earthstar fungi species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and a new insertion in the Velutina subsection (Geastrales, Basidiomycota)

“…The second area, Serra de Santa Rita Mitzi Brandão Biological Reserve, is an important region of water supply in the state of Minas Gerais (Southeastern Brazil), located in the municipality of Santa Rita do Sapucaí. It belongs to an area classified as a transition between the Semideciduous Seasonal Forest and the Mixed Ombrophylous Forest and has an average annual rainfall of 1,500 mm (Alfredo et al 2016).…”