Enlargement of the knowledge of Cortinarius section Anomali (Agaricales, Basidiomycota): introducing three new species from China

Abstract

Cortinarius is a globally distributed agaricoid genus that has been well studied in Europe and America with over 1,000 described species. However, as part of an ongoing effort to investigate the diversity of Cortinarius section Anomali in China, the resource investigation and classification research are still limited, and the species diversity has not been clarified by far. During the re-examination of the Chinese Cortinarius specimens, C. cinnamomeolilacinus, C. subclackamasensis, and C. tropicus, belonging to the sect. Anomali, were described in China as new to science based on morphological examination and phylogenetic analysis. The three new species are described and illustrated in detail according to the Chinese materials. The phylogenetic analysis based on internal transcribed spacer sequences confirmed the placement of the three species in the Cortinarius sect. Anomali clade. Phylogenetically related and morphologically similar species to these three new species are discussed.

Three new species of Cortinarius section Delibuti (Cortinariaceae, Agaricales) from China

“…To date, fewer than 30 species were originally reported from China, and only two new species in sect. Delibuti were originally found in China ( Yang 1998 ; Wei and Yao 2013 ; Xie et al 2019 , 2020 , 2021a , 2021b , 2022 ; Luo and Bau 2021 , Zhang et al 2023 ; Zhou et al 2023 ). With the combination of morphological observations and phylogenetic analysis, we describe three species belonging to sect.…”