Gasteroid mycobiota of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil: Lysuraceae (Basidiomycota)

Abstract

As part of a review of gasteroid mycobiota from Rio Grande do Sul State, in southern Brazil, members of the Lysuraceae (Phallales) family were studied. Fresh and herbarium specimens were analyzed macro-and micromorphologically. Lysurus cruciatus, L. cruciatus var. nanus (new record from Brazil) and L. periphragmoides have been collected in the area. Their specific limits, distribution and ecological data are discussed. Macroscopic photographs and line drawings of the basidiospores are presented.

Phallales (Agaricomycetes, Fungi) from Southern Brazil

“…Lysurus cruciatus var. nanus Calonge & B. Marcos, characterized by smaller basidiomata and orange yellow arms, was reported from Southern Brazil by Cortez et al (2011b). Molecular data showed that there is no significant difference between this variety and the typical one (Martín et al 2005).…”

Obtaining monokaryotic and dikaryotic mycelial cultures of two Amazonian strains of Geastrum (Geastraceae, Basidiomycota)

“…The genus is polyphyletic (Wilson et al 2011), with approximately 120 species (Zamora et al 2014), making it the most diversified in the family Geastraceae Corda (Hosaka et al 2006). Collectively, members of the genus have the ability to colonize a wide variety of environments (Zamora et al 2013), including sandy soils, and those rich in organic material, as well as acting as a decomposer of wood (Cortez et al 2011) and having ectomicorrizal associations (Karun and Sridhar 2014). VOL.…”

Development and morphology of Lysurus cruciatus—an addition to the Indian mycobiota

“…The tropical genus Lysurus is saprobic (Schaffer 1975, Lodge & Cantrell 1995 and morphologically characterized by short columnar arms (Teng 1996) attached to the apical margin of a cylindrical receptacle (Fischer 1886) that emerges from a ruptured peridium (Zang & Peterson 1989). The gleba, which is located on the lateral surfaces of receptacle arms (Miller et al 1991, Beltrán-Tejera et al 1998, Cortez et al 2011, emits a fetid odor (Burk et al 1982). Lysurus cruciatus is commonly known as lizard's claw stinkhorn in U.S.A. (Arora 1986).…”