Taxonomic update of Clitocybula sensu lato with a new generic classification

Publication date: Available online 24 March 2019Source: Fungal BiologyAuthor(s): Vladimír Antonín, Jan Borovička, Jan Holec, Andrej Piltaver, Miroslav KolaříkAbstractThe taxonomy and phylogeny of the hydropoid clade (genera Clitocybula s.l., Megacollybia, Leucoinocybe gen. nov., Hydropus, Trogia, Gerronema, Porotheleum and Lignomphalia gen. nov.) in Europe is studied using morphological and molecular approaches; the first three genera in detail including all known European species. Only two European species remain in Clitocybula s.str., C. lacerata and C. familia. The European C. lacerata is a species complex which should be treated as C. lacerata agg. at the current state of knowledge. A neotype originating from type area was designated to fix application of the name. The presence of American species C. abundans in Europe is insufficiently proved. “Clitocybula dryadicola ˮ belongs to the genus Hydropus, and C. tilieti has an unclear systematic position. The results showed that Megacollybia and Leucoinocybe represent independent genera separated from Clitocybula. The genus Leucoinocybe is validly published with two European species, L. lenta and L. taniae. “Clitocybula flavoaurantia“ proved to be conspecific with the latter species. The genus Lignomphalia is published for “Pseudoomphalina lignicola“, a lignicolous omphalinoid species. The Indian “Clitocybula sulcata“ is transferred to Leucoinocybe and “C. atrialba“ to Gerronema. The first European reco...
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