Amanita indogrisea, a new species of Amanita subg. Amanitina sect. Roanokenses from India

Abstract

<em>Amanita indogrisea</em> is described here as a new species from coniferous forests in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India based on morpho-anatomy and molecular data. This species is characterized by its small to medium-sized basidiomata, ash grey to lilac-grey pileal surface with ash grey to greyish brown pulverulent-floccose to felted veil remnants, ash grey to greyish-white stipes with ovoid to ellipsoid basal bulb, ellipsoid to elongated basidiospores (10.5–15.0 × 7.0–10.0 μm) and the absence of clamps in all tissues. Molecular phylogenetic analysis based on nuclear ribosomal large subunit (nrLSU) sequences confirmed its identity as a new species nested within <em>A.</em> subgen. <em>Amanitina</em> sect. <em>Roanokenses</em>. Description of the new species is provided in this study.

Three new species of genus Amanita Pers. (Amanitaceae) from India

“…To date, 1000 Amanita species names have been proposed to date, but 690 species are accepted worldwide (Yang et al 2018;Cui et al 2018; Kalichman et al 2020). There are approximately 66 species of Amanita reported in India Hosen et al 2018; Kumar et al 2022Kumar et al , 2023. The temperate coniferous and subtropical broad-leaved forests of India harbour high mushroom diversity including genus Amanita.…”