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Agaricus parvibicolor

Agaricus parvibicolor L.J. Chen, R.L. Zhao & K.D. Hyde.

Index Fungorum number: IF550999, Facesoffungi number: FoF00467

 

Pileus 15–40 mm diam., 1 mm thick, first parabolic, then hemisphaerical to convex, and finally applanate; surface dry, with reddish brown to violet brown fibrils, densely arranged at disc, very few or none towards the margin on a white background; occasionally, with pileus expansion, starting from the centre, the surface disrupted into triangular fibrillose squamules; margin crenulate, at times appendiculate by remnants from of the annulus, finely striate when sporocarps become mature; Lamellae free, crowded, lamellulae with more than 5 series, 3–4 mm broad, at first white, then pinkish, later greyish-brown and finally dark brown. Stipe 32–57×2.5–5 mm, fistulose, cylindrical to slightly bulbous at base, with numerous rhizomorphs, surface white, staining orange by handing or bruising, smooth above annulus, fibrillose below. Annulus membranous, single, white, fragile. Context, firm, white. Odour strong of almonds. Macrochemical reactions: KOH reaction positive yellow. Schäffer’s reaction positive reddish orange. (Fig. 2)

Basidiospores 4.7–5.5 (–5.7) ×3–3.5 (–3.7) μm, (x=5.2×3.3μm, Q=1.39–1.77, Qm=1.55, n=20), ellipsoid to oblong, smooth, brown, thick–walled. Basidia 10–17×5.5–8μm, clavate to broadly clavate, hyaline, smooth, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 18–38×7.5–13μm, abundant, simple, broadly clavate, pyriform or sphaeropedunculate, hyaline, smooth. Pleurocystidia absent. Pileipellis a cutis composed of hyphae of 5–9μm diam., cylindrical, light brown, smooth, at times slightly constricted at the septa. (Fig. 3)

 

Habit: gregarious in small groups or solitary in soil of grassland.

Material examined: THAILAND, Chiang Rai Province, Mae Fah Luang University, 21 July 2012, collector Jie Chen, LD2012116 (MFLU 12–0953, holotype). GenBank ITS: KP715162; Chiang Rai Province, Mae Fah Luang University, 13 July 2012, collector Jie Chen, LD201288 (MFLU 12–0926), GenBank ITS: KP715165; LD201295 (MFLU 12–0933), GenBank ITS: KP715164; Mae Fah Luang University, 21 July 2012, collector Jie Chen, LD2012118 (MFLU 12–0954), GenBank ITS: KP715163; Mae Souy Dist., Pamae Lao National Park., 2 August 2006, collected by Ruilin Zhao, ZRL3091 (SFSU).

Notes: The positive KOH and Schäffer’s reactions and almond-like odour suggest this species belongs to Agaricus section Minores. Agaricus parvibicolor is characterized by its slender sporocarps, with reddish-brown to violet brown fibrils at the centre of the pileus surface, and whitish towards the margin, the simple cheilocystidia, frequently broadly clavate or sphaeropedunculate in shape, the spore with an average size of 5.2×3.3μm. Morphologically, the most similar species is A. purpurellus (F.H. Møller) F.H. Møller, which also shares a slender sporocarp and purplish fibrillose pileus. However, A. purpurellus shows an entirely purplish pileus, slightly wider in spore size (5.16×4μm) and a distinctive habitat of conifer woods. Another species with reddish-purple fibrils on the disc, but white elsewhere, is A. dulcidulus Schulzer, but it can be easily distinguished by its much smaller spore size which average is to 4.31×3μm (Parra 2013). In the phylogenetic analysis, A. parvibicolor forms a single clade in Agaricus section Minores.

 

 

Fig. 1 Phylogram generated from Maximum Likelihood (PhyML ver 3.0) analysis based on ITS sequences of Agaricus parvibicolor. Maximum Likelihood bootstrap support values greater than 50 % are indicated above the nodes, and branches with Maximum parsimony bootstrap support values greater than 75 % are given in bold. The type species are given in bold; the new specimens are in blue.

 

 

Fig. 2 Agaricus parvibicolor (MFLU 12–0953, holotype) a Sporocarps in situ. b Pileus characters. c Finely striate on the margin. d Membranous annulus. Scale bars: a– d=10 mm

 

 

Fig. 3 Agaricus parvibicolor (holotype) a Cheilocystidia b Basidia c Basidiospores d Pileipellis. Scale bars: a–c=5μm, d=10μm

 

References

Liu JK, Hyde KD, Jones EG, Ariyawansa HA et al. 2015 – Fungal diversity notes 1–110: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal species. Fungal diversity72(1), 1–197.

 

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