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Issue: Vol. 409 No. 4: 12 July 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.409.4.1
Page range: 189–201
Abstract views: 24
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Amanita mansehraensis, a new species in section Vaginatae from Pakistan

Current affiliation: Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan Department of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore 54590, Pakistan Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Current affiliation: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.
Department of Botany, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore 54590, Pakistan.
Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Amanitaceae Ectomycorrhizae Phylogeny Pine Forests Taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

A new species of Amanita subgenus Amanita sect. Vaginatae is described and illustrated based on material collected in pine forests in district Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw, Pakistan. Amanita mansehraensis is recognized by the presence of a light brown or light greyish olive pileus with strong brown or deep brown pileus center; non-appendiculate, rimose, sulcate or plicate striate pileus margin; subglobose to ellipsoid basidiospores; and a saccate volva. The internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) and large subunit of the nuclear ribosomal RNA gene (nrLSU) were used for the delimitation of this species based on sequence data. The evolutionary relationships of A. mansehraensis with other species of Amanita were inferred by means of Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian inferences of the nrLSU dataset and concatenated ITS+nrLSU dataset. Amanita mansehraensis is most closely related to A. brunneofuliginea, A. pseudovaginata, and the recently described A. glarea.