Gymnopilus rubellus sp. nov. from the coniferous forests of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

Five New Species of Gymnopilus from Xizang Autonomous Region of China and Surrounding Areas

“…In China, a total of thirty-one Gymnopilus species, including seven species originally described to be from China, have been published so far [ 7 , 9 , 21 ]. Gymnopilus is a species-rich genus, and the previous studies from China included several provinces, such as the Guangdong, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hainan, and Jilin provinces.…”

“…The sequences produced from this study and some generated by a previous work and deposited in the NCBI GenBank database were used in our phylogenetic analyses [ 2 , 7 , 9 , 19 , 20 , 32 , 33 ] ( Table 1 ). Sequences of multigene data were aligned separately using Muscle version 3.6 [ 34 ], then manually adjusted to remove ambiguous regions in BioEdit version 7.0.4 [ 35 ].…”

“…Gymnopilus species can be characterized by the morphological characteristics of their hemispherical or convex cap; yellowish, brownish, greenish, or purplish pileus; adnate or adnexed lamellae; fibrous and sometimes membranous or filamentous curtain; the presence of an arachnoid to membranous veil; roughened or verrucose appearance; and basidiospores that are yellow to yellowish brown and then rusty brown. Some species usually have a bitter taste and clamp connections present on almost all kinds of hyphae [5][6][7][8][9]. The majority of Gymnopilus species are saprobes, and some species generate psilocybin, a psychedelic compound that can lead to nerve poisoning [7,10].…”