Neonothopanus gardneri: a new combination for a bioluminescent agaric from Brazil

Abstract

The bioluminescent agaric, Agaricus gardneri Berk., was rediscovered recently in central Brazil. The new combination, Neonothopanus gardneri, is proposed for this long-forgotten taxon supported by morphological and molecular data.

• Agaricales
• Basidiomycota
• bioluminescence
• omphalotoid clade
• taxonomy

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank the curator of the Kew Herbarium; Maria Cecília Tomasi, Instituto de Botânica, for inking the drawings; Dr Maria Helena P. Fungaro, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, for DNA sequencing; Dr. Aníbal Alves de Carvalho Jr., Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, and Dr Tatiana B. Gibertoni, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, for helping with bibliography; Dr Michele P. Verderane, Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de São Paulo, for permission to publish her photos (Fig. 2c–d). We also are indebted to Mr Marino G. de Oliveira and his family (Gilbués, PI), Drs Ismael Dantas (Teresina, PI), Luiz F. Mendes, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, Dorothy Fragaszy (University of Georgia, USA) and Patrícia Izar, Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de São Paulo, for the collection of fruiting bodies.

This study was supported by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Stevani grant, FAPESP 2010/15047-4) and by a National Science Foundation (USA) grant to Desjardin ( DEB-0542445).