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New species and records of Rhodocybe (Entolomataceae, Agaricales) from Tasmania

Timothy J. Baroni A C and Genevieve M. Gates B
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A Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York—College at Cortland, PO Box 2000, Cortland, NY 13045, USA.

B School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia.

C Corresponding author. Email: baronitj@cortland.edu

Australian Systematic Botany 19(4) 343-358 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB06002
Submitted: 31 January 2006  Accepted: 20 April 2006   Published: 25 August 2006

Abstract

Five new and two previously unrecorded species of Rhodocybe (Agaricales, fungi) are described from the Australian state of Tasmania with a key provided to species known from Australia and New Zealand. This is the first report of Rhodocybe taxa for Tasmania, and increases the known number of species of this genus for the Australia / New Zealand region from 13 to 18. The newly described species of Rhodocybe are R. pseudopiperita, R. lateritia, R. pallidogrisea, R. tasmanica and R. amara.


Acknowledgments

Dr David Ratkowsky is warmly thanked for his help with field collecting, financial support, and helping to edit this manuscript. The School of Plant Science of the University of Tasmania is thanked for providing a microscope and laboratory facilities. In particular, GMG thanks Mr Alan Mills of that School for his encouragement in the early stages of this project. The Director of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute of the University of Adelaide kindly provided the type of Rhodocybe reticulata for study by TJB. TJB also gratefully acknowledges support by the National Science Foundation (DEB 9525902 and 0103621) for his studies on neotropical Entolomataceae that have indirectly contributed to this study. Ms Patricia Eckel, Missouri Botanical Gardens, provided the Latin diagnoses.


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