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- Title
New Cortinarius species associated with Quercus and Comarostaphylis in Costa Rica.
- Authors
Garnica, Sigisfredo; Halling, Roy E.; Mata, Milagro; Ammirati, Joe; Mueller, Gregory M.; Carranza, Julieta
- Abstract
Ten new species of Cortinarius are described from Costa Rican neotropical montane forests based on morphological and molecular phylogenetic data. Morphological features of the basidiomes and nuclear rDNA sequence analyses place these species in the following clades: Anomali (Cortinarius sericeolazulinus), Cotoneus (Cortinarius aureopigmentatus), Limonii (Cortinarius aurantiobrunneus), Lustrati (Cortinarius comarostaphylii, Cortinarius comparioides, Cortinarius ovreboi), Myxacium (Cortinarius costaricensis), and Telamonia (Cortinarius carranzae, Cortinarius quercoarmillatus, Cortinarius savegrensis). Species delimitations, diagnostic characters, sequence pair wise comparisons, and affinities to closely related species are included for each species. These Cortinarii occur with several species of Quercus with the exception of C. comarostaphylii, which is associated with Comarostaphylis (Ericaceae) in the páramo and in mixed forests with Quercus and Comarostaphylis.
- Subjects
COSTA Rica; CORTINARIUS; RECOMBINANT DNA research; PHYLOGENY; CRANE flies; ERICACEAE; OAK; OAK diseases &; pests
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Botany, 2007, Vol 85, Issue 9, p794
- ISSN
0008-4026
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/B07-067