Journal Article

Tylocinum is no longer monotypic: Tylocinumbrevisporum sp. nov. (Boletales, Boletaceae) from northern Thailand

Davoodian, Naveed, Raspé, Olivier, Phonemany, Monthien, Raghoonundon, Bhavesh

2021

Overview

Y.C. Li & Zhu L. Yang 2016 is a Boletaceae genus belonging in subfamily Leccinoideae. It was described in 2016 from China and, prior to this study, it contained only one species, Y.C. Li & Zhu L. Yang 2016. During our survey of Boletaceae from Thailand, we collected some specimens that could be identified as a species, different from . The bolete specimens, collected in forests dominated by Dipterocarpaceae and Fagaceae in northern Thailand, are described as Raghoonundon & Raspé sp. nov. Macroscopic and microscopic descriptions with illustrations are provided, as well as a 3-gene phylogeny, which confirms the new taxon's position in . differs from the only other known species ( by its brownish-grey colour, greyish-orange to brownish-orange colour change in the hymenophore when bruised, smaller pores (≤ 0.5 mm), longer tubes (up to 6 mm long), shorter and narrower basidiospores, longer and broader basidia and longer pleurocystidia relative to cheilocystidia. is the second species from the genus and the only one to be found outside China thus far.

• Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
• Subject: Boletaceae / Phylogeny / Taxonomic Paper / Taxonomy / Thailand