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<mods:namePart>Ashraf, Shazia</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Khalid, Abdul Nasir</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="67196D18-B574-54AB-BEAA-1362442FF60D" authority="Ashraf, S., Naseer, A. &amp; Khalid, A. N." authorityName="Ashraf, S., Naseer, A. &amp; Khalid, A. N." authorityYear="2023" class="Agaricomycetes" family="Agaricaceae" genus="Leucoagaricus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Leucoagaricus margallensis" order="Agaricales" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" phylum="Basidiomycota" rank="species" species="margallensis" status="sp. nov.">Leucoagaricus margallensis Ashraf, S., Naseer, A. &amp; Khalid, A.N.</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Morphological description of Leucoagaricus spp. from Pakistan A, C Leucoagaricus margallensis B, D Leucoagaricus glareicolor." figureDoi="10.3897/mycokeys.96.101745.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/834804" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Figs 3</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Anatomical features of Leucoagaricus margallensis A basidia B basidiospores C cheilocystidia D pileipellis E stipitipellis. Scale bars: 10 µm (A); 5 µm (B-E)." figureDoi="10.3897/mycokeys.96.101745.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/834805" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">, 4</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The specific epithet
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">margallensis</emphasis>
(Latin) refers to type locality Margalla.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">
<taxonomicName class="Agaricomycetes" family="Hygrophoraceae" genus="Leucoagaricus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Leucoagaricus margallensis" order="Agaricales" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" phylum="Basidiomycota" rank="species" species="margallensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus margallensis</emphasis>
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can be distinguished by small, umbonate pileus with minute, fragile annulus, bulbous stipe, smaller basidiospores (6.27
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
4.67
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
) and cheilocystidia without crystals on its apex.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Holotype.</paragraph>
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Pakistan, Islamabad, Margalla Hills National park, trail 5,
<geoCoordinate degrees="33" direction="north" minutes="45" orientation="latitude" precision="1" seconds="01.1" value="33.750305">33°45'01.1&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="73" direction="east" minutes="05" orientation="longitude" precision="1" seconds="14.5" value="73.087364">73°05'14.5&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
, 1303 m.a.s.l., July 27, 2018, Shazia Ashraf &amp; Arooj Naseer, MH-63, Holotype (LAH 37543), GenBank: OP605606 (ITS), OP782026 (LSU).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Description.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Basidiomata</emphasis>
medium-sized, shiny, smooth, moderately fleshy, solitary.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Pileus</emphasis>
1.5-2.5 cm in diameter, hemispherical to parabolic when young, expanding convex to plano convex, plane at maturity, umbonate, radially fibrillose to rugulose, whole pileus orange (0.5YR 3.2/8.7) when immature, then yellowish orange (9.4YR 6.1/7.2) on maturity, margin incurved in mature and striated, context white, smooth, thick at center.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Lamellae</emphasis>
free to thin, milky white (2.2GY 6.8/0.9), spacing fine and close, 1-1.5 mm wide, edges entire, lamellae regular, 3-4 tiers.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Lamellulae</emphasis>
irregular, alternating with lamella, in 2-3 tiers.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Stipe</emphasis>
4.5-7
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
0.5-1 cm, cylindrical, central, thin, white (2.2GY 6.8/0.9), smooth, shiny, even, clavate. Annulus simple, white, located in upper half of stipe, membranous upturned. Flavor and odor not distinctive.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Figure 3.</emphasis>
Morphological description of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus</emphasis>
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spp. from Pakistan
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">A, C</emphasis>
<taxonomicName class="Agaricomycetes" family="Hygrophoraceae" genus="Leucoagaricus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Leucoagaricus margallensis" order="Agaricales" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" phylum="Basidiomycota" rank="species" species="margallensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus margallensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">B, D</emphasis>
<taxonomicName class="Agaricomycetes" family="Hygrophoraceae" genus="Leucoagaricus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Leucoagaricus glareicolor" order="Agaricales" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" phylum="Basidiomycota" rank="species" species="glareicolor">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus glareicolor</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Basidiospores</emphasis>
[90/5/3] (6-) 6.2 - 8.0 (-8.2)
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
(3.43-) 4.11 - 4.7(-4.9)
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
, 6.1-8.1
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
3.7-4.8
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
, av. Q = 1.58-1.42, Qav = 1.49, hyaline to light yellowish in 5% KOH, oval to ellipsoid at face view, lacrymoid to amygdaliform in side-view, guttulate, smooth, dextrinoid, thin-walled and apiculate.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Basidia</emphasis>
(12.06-) 13.08 - 23.5 (-24.03)
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
(6.86-) 7.7 - 8.72 (-9.72)
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
, 12.9-18.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
5.8-7.7
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
, av. L =19.29
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
, av. W = 7.54
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
, narrowly clavate, hyaline in 5% KOH, smooth, with 2-4 prominent sterigmata, oil droplets present,no clamp at base.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Cheilocystidia</emphasis>
(15.12-) 16.12 - 24.9 (-25.98)
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
(6.88-) 7.8 - 8.4 (-9.43)
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
, 15-26
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
6.8-9.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
, hyaline in 5% KOH, thick-walled, broadly clavate and smooth, without internal content and clamp. Pleurocystidia absent. Pileipellis an intricate trichoderm, made up of 5.6-7.7
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
, av w=5.99
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
, wide, septate, interwoven, thin-walled hyphae, hyaline in 5% KOH, clamp connections absent.
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<caption doi="10.3897/mycokeys.96.101745.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/834805" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" start="Figure 4" startId="F4">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Figure 4.</emphasis>
Anatomical features of
<taxonomicName class="Agaricomycetes" family="Hygrophoraceae" genus="Leucoagaricus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Leucoagaricus margallensis" order="Agaricales" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" phylum="Basidiomycota" rank="species" species="margallensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus margallensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">A</emphasis>
basidia
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">B</emphasis>
basidiospores
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">C</emphasis>
cheilocystidia
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">D</emphasis>
pileipellis
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">E</emphasis>
stipitipellis. Scale bars: 10
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
(
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">A</emphasis>
); 5
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
(
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">B-E</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">
Stipitipellis as compactly arranged cutis, made up of septate, cylindrical hyphae, 3.4-4.9
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
in diam., thin-walled, light yellowish in 2% KOH, clamp connections absent.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Additional specimen.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">
Pakistan, Islamabad, Margalla Hills National park, trail 5,
<geoCoordinate degrees="33" direction="north" minutes="45" orientation="latitude" precision="1" seconds="01.1" value="33.750305">33°45'01.1&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="73" direction="east" minutes="05" orientation="longitude" precision="1" seconds="14.5" value="73.087364">73°05'14.5&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
, 1303 m a.s.l., July 22, 2021, Shazia Ashraf, MH-111(LAH 37454), GenBank for ITS (OP605607) LSU (OP782027).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus margallensis</emphasis>
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has a combination of striking features like small, umbonate pileus with minute, fragile annulus and broader bulbous stipe. Anatomically, it has smaller basidiospores (6.27
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
4.67
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
), smaller cheliocystidia and absence of crystals at apex of cheliocystidia.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus margallensis</emphasis>
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resembles
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="La. rubrotinctus" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubrotinctus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">La. rubrotinctus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
including similar pileus size and shape, fibrillose surface, stipe color and shape. But
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus margallensis</emphasis>
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differs from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">La. rubrotinctus</emphasis>
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by minute fragile annulus while
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="La. rubrotinctus" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubrotinctus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">La. rubrotinctus</emphasis>
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has prominent white annulus. Anatomically,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus margallensis</emphasis>
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has ellipsoid, smaller (6.27
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
4.67
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
) basidispores as compared to
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="La. rubrotinctus" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubrotinctus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">La. rubrotinctus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
larger and amygdaliform basidiospores. Furthermore,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus margallensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has smaller cheliocystidia (15-26
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
6.8-9.4
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
) as compared to
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Crambidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="La. rubrotinctus" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rubrotinctus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">La. rubrotinctus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(30-50
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
5-10
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
), narrow pilleipellis hyphae (5-10
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
) in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">La. rubrotinctus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The other closely related taxa in phylogenetic tree is
<taxonomicName lsidName="L. rubroconfusus" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" rank="species" species="rubroconfusus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">L. rubroconfusus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Migl. &amp; Coccia, characterized by centrally depressed, larger (up to 7.5 cm) pileus with orange fibrillose squamules as compared to umbonate, smaller (2.5 cm) yellowish orange fibrils on white pileus of Pakistani taxon. Anatomically, both taxa lack crystals at apex of cheilocystidia. Our taxon
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus margallensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is differentiated from
<taxonomicName lsidName="L. rubroconfusus" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" rank="species" species="rubroconfusus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">L. rubroconfusus</emphasis>
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due to smaller (6.27
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
4.67
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
) basidiospores as compared to basidiospores of
<taxonomicName lsidName="L. rubroconfusus" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" rank="species" species="rubroconfusus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">L. rubroconfusus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(5.5-8(9.5))
<normalizedToken originalValue="µm">µm</normalizedToken>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="159">
<taxonomicName class="Agaricomycetes" family="Hygrophoraceae" genus="Leucoagaricus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Leucoagaricus subpurpureolilacinus" order="Agaricales" pageId="0" pageNumber="159" phylum="Basidiomycota" rank="species" species="subpurpureolilacinus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus subpurpureolilacinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Z.W. Ge &amp; Zhu L. Yang, from southwestern China differs in its broad, brown to dark ruby umbo, larger basidiospores and clavate cheilocystidia with gelatinized covering intermixed with crystals (
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). Our taxon can also be differentiated from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">La. purpureolilacinus</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="159">Leucoagaricus purpureolilacinus</emphasis>
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has a pinkish brown pileus with a dark purple brown disk, a stipe attenuating toward the base, amygdaliform spores and clavate cheilocystidia often with constrictions in the middle (
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).
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