Phylogeny of Pluteus section Celluloderma including eight new species from Brazil

Abstract

A general phylogeny of Pluteus section Celluloderma based on nuc rITS1-5.8-ITS2 (ITS) barcode sequences is presented with description of eight new species from Brazil supported by morphological and molecular data: P. brunneocrinitus, P. cebolinhae, P. crinitus, P. halonatus, P. hispidulopsis, P. karstedtiae, P. necopinatus and P. paucicystidiatus.

• Agaricales
• biodiversity
• Pluteaceae
• rDNA ITS

Acknowledgments

The authors thank the curators of INPA, RSPF and SP for the loan of the specimens studied; Patrick Leacock for the presubmission review; Noemia Kazue Ishikawa and Iuri Goulart Baseia for helping and all assistance during the expeditions to Manaus and Natal, respectively; N.K. Ishikawa and I.G. Baseia, as well as Fernanda Karstedt Carla Puccinelli, Adriana M. Gugliotta and Dennis E. Desjardin, also are thanked for photographs and/ or collecting some specimens used in this study; David S. Hibbett for receiving N. Menolli Jr in his lab and for allowing the generation of some sequences; Flávia Ribeiro Santos for helping with DNA extraction of some samples; Klei R. Sousa for inking the line drawings; Francisco Kuhar for helping with the suggestions and composition of the new names. N. Menolli Jr. and M. Capelari thank Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP grants 04/04319-2, 09/53272-2), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES-PNADB grant 23038.000043/2010-43) and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq fellowships) for financial support. A. Justo acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation grant DEB 0933081.