New Cortinarius species associated with Quercus and Comarostaphylis in Costa Rica

Joe Ammirati*, Sigisfredo Garnica, Roy E. Halling, Milagro Mata, Gregory M. Mueller, Julieta Carranza

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)794-812
Number of pages19
JournalCanadian Journal of Botany
Volume85
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2007

Keywords

  • Agarics
  • Central America
  • Internal transcribed spacer region
  • Large subunit of the nuclear rDNA
  • Macrofungi
  • Oak
  • Taxonomy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Plant Science

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