A new species of Arrhenia (Agaricales, Hygrophoraceae) from Guizhou Province, China

Authors

JING WANG
HUAN GAO
DONG MEI LIU
CHUN YING DENG
SHAO QI ZHOU

DOI

10.55730/1300-008X.2755

Abstract

Arrhenia nivea is a new bryophilous species of Arrhenia from a valley in southwestern China'a subtropical monsoon humid climate zone.The species is characterized by pure white basidiomata with an irregularly discoid to cupulate 1.5-4.5 mm diameter pileus, reduced hymenium, nonamyloid basidiospores, lack of cystidia, the presence of clamps, and no incrusted pigment of the pileipellic hyphae. Phylogenetic analysis using ITS sequence data confirmed that it arised from a pathway separate from other species of Arrhenia.

Keywords

Morphology, moss, phylogeny, taxonomy

First Page

190

Last Page

195

Recommended Citation

WANG, JING; GAO, HUAN; LIU, DONG MEI; DENG, CHUN YING; and ZHOU, SHAO QI (2023) "A new species of Arrhenia (Agaricales, Hygrophoraceae) from Guizhou Province, China," Turkish Journal of Botany: Vol. 47: No. 2, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-008X.2755
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/vol47/iss2/9