Observations on Pluteaceae in Vietnam: Four New Species and New Records of Pluteus

Ekaterina Malysheva; Eugene Popov; Olga Morozova; Vasily Dudka; Thi Ha Giang Pham; Vera Malysheva

doi:10.3390/jof9050584

Observations on Pluteaceae in Vietnam: Four New Species and New Records of Pluteus

J Fungi (Basel). 2023 May 18;9(5):584. doi: 10.3390/jof9050584.

Authors

Ekaterina Malysheva¹, Eugene Popov¹, Olga Morozova¹, Vasily Dudka¹, Thi Ha Giang Pham², Vera Malysheva¹

Affiliations

¹ Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Popov Str. 2, 197022 St. Petersburg, Russia.
² Joint Vietnam-Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Centre, 63 Nguyen Van Huyen Str., Cau Giay, Hanoi 122000, Vietnam.

Abstract

Eighteen specimens of Pluteus collected from the tropical forests of Vietnam were studied using morphological and molecular approaches. Pluteus podospilloides, P. semibulbosus, P. chrysaegis and P. septocystidiatus are registered as additional or new records for Vietnam. Four species (P. conformis, P. lucidus, P. subroseus, and P. ornatus) are proposed as new to science, and several other collections (Pluteus sp. 1, P. aff. septocystidiatus, P. aff. pauperculus and P. cf. velutinus) are given an inconclusive taxonomic status for now. The taxonomic positions of all specimens were confirmed using DNA data (nrITS and tef1). Descriptions of the macro- and microscopic features of the studied collections with a discussion of similar taxa are given.

Keywords: Agaricales; Basidiomycota; molecular phylogeny; new species; nrITS; taxonomy; tef1.

Grants and funding

The field work was supported by the project No. 122011900033-4 of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and molecular study was conducted with the financial support of the Ministry of Education and Science (Agreement N 075-15-2021-1056).