Frontiers in Microbiology (Nov 2022)

Taxonomy and multi-gene phylogeny of Micropsalliota (Agaricales, Agaricaceae) with description of six new species from China

  • Jun-Qing Yan,
  • Jun-Qing Yan,
  • Jun-Qing Yan,
  • Jun-Qing Yan,
  • Zhi-Heng Zeng,
  • Zhi-Heng Zeng,
  • Ya-Ping Hu,
  • Ya-Ping Hu,
  • Bin-Rong Ke,
  • Bin-Rong Ke,
  • Hui Zeng,
  • Hui Zeng,
  • Sheng-Nan Wang,
  • Sheng-Nan Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1011794
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13

Abstract

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Micropsalliota is a relatively small genus containing only 62 previously identified species. Here, we describe six new taxa of Micropsalliota based on morphological and phylogenetic analyses: M. minor, M. ovalispora, M. pseudodelicatula, M. rufosquarrosa, M. tenuipes, and M. wuyishanensis and a new record taxon to China. The first Maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses of a three-gene dataset (ITS, LSU, and rpb2) separated the genus into 18 weakly to strongly supported major clades and subclades, but only a few subclades were synapomorphies. According to phylogenetic analyses, M. cornuta does not belong in Micropsalliota. A key to 20 species of Micropsalliota in China is provided.

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