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Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-14
Page range: 271–280
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Pseudoporpoloma, a new genus for Agaricus pes-caprae (Agaricales, Tricholomataceae)

Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, I-10125 Turin, Italy
Via Ronzani 61, I-40033 Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna), Italy
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, I-10125 Turin, Italy
Via C. Pavese 1, I-46029 Suzzara (Mantova), Italy
Agaricomycetes Basidiomycota phylogeny taxonomy tricholomatoid clade Fungi

Abstract

Pseudoporpoloma (Agaricales) is a new monospecific genus established for Agaricus pes-caprae, a grassland species previously placed in Tricholoma or Porpoloma. Pseudoporpoloma is morphologically distinguished by a Tricholoma-like habit, a conical radially fibrillose pileus, and amyloid spores. Phylogenetic analyses based on a combined ITS-LSU-rpb2 sequence dataset place Pseudoporpoloma close to Pseudotricholoma and Tricholoma.