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Issue: Vol. 252 No. 4: 16 March 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-03-16
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.252.4.3
Page range: 273–279
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 30

A new species of Cantharellus (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota, Fungi) from subalpine forest in Yunnan, China

Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Resources and Sustainable Use, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla County, Menglun 666303, Yunnan, China. Key Laboratory for Plant Biodiversity and Biogeography for East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China.
Key Laboratory for Plant Biodiversity and Biogeography for East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China.
Key Laboratory for Plant Biodiversity and Biogeography for East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China.
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, CP 39, ISYEB, UMR 7205 CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE, 12 Rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France.
Environmental Education Department, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla County, Menglun 666303, Yunnan, China.
biodiversity phylogeny subalpine distribution tef1 gene Fungi

Abstract

Cantharellus versicolor is described and illustrated as a new species based on morphological and molecular characters. The most significant features to distinguish the new species from other known Cantharellus are its extremely fleshy, turning gray after injury and with black floccose-fibrillose scales composed of thick-walled and irregular, erect hyphae on the pileus. It is described from the subalpine belt of Shangri-La, northwestern Yunnan, China. Phylogenetic analysis of the transcription elongation factor 1-alpha sequence data further support its systematic position in the subgenus Cantharellus and its description as a new species.