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Issue: Vol. 305 No. 1: 21 April 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-04-21
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.305.1.2
Page range: 11–20
Abstract views: 20
PDF downloaded: 1

Afroboletus sequestratus (Boletales), the first species with sequestrate basidioma in the genus

Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China. Key Laboratory of Yunnan Province Universities of the Diversity and Ecological Adaptive Evolution for Animals and Plants on Yungui Plateau, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, Yunnan, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
Département Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, USM Taxonomie et Collections (CP 39), 57 rue Cuvier, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France
Faculty of Agronomy, University of Parakou, BP 123, Parakou, Benin
Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY 10458-5126, USA
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China.
Africa Boletes gasteromycetation Fungi Zambia

Abstract

A new species of Afroboletus, namely A. sequestratus, is described from Zambia. Evidence from molecular phylogenetic analyses using sequences rpb1, rpb2 and tef1α and morphological comparison support its placement in Afroboletus and it is distinct from the other related members of this genus in Africa. It is the first species with sequestrate basidiomata in the genus. A morphological description is augmented with line drawings and SEM images for the species.