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Issue: Vol. 202 No. 2: 12 March 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-03-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.202.2.2
Page range: 94–102
Abstract views: 18
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Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of Russula (Russulaceae) from southern China

Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P. R. China
Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P. R. China Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, P. R. China
Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P. R. China
Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P. R. China Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, P. R. China
Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P. R. China
Basidiomycetes phylogeny Russulales & taxonomy

Abstract

Russula subrutilans sp. nov., a new species of Russula is described from southern China. It is unique for having buff pink to light congo-pink pileus, distant ventricose to subventricose lamellae with rare lamellulae, globose to broadly ellipsoid spores with bluntly conical warts forming a partial reticulum, and narrowly clavate to clavate cheilocystidia and pleurocysitidia with variable tips. Phylogenetic relationships among the new species and other closely related species in the genus are inferred based on the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region.