New records of Geastrum from Japanese sand dunes

Abstract

Basidiomata of three earthstars —Geastrum campestre, G. corollinum, G. hungaricum— were collected from sand dunes of the Japanese coasts. Those arenicolous fungi are newly recorded for Japanese mycobiota. Descriptions, comments and illustrations of basidiomata of the three fungi are provided.

<i>Geastrum sanglinense</i>, a new species from the Manghe Rhesus Monkey National Nature Reserve, China

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It is characterized by exoperidium splitting into rays at maturity and is widely known as the earthstars, which have a worldwide distribution and have been recorded from all continents except Antarctica (Kasuya et al, 2012a). The areas with more in-depth research on Geastrum are mainly concentrated in Europe,

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Sixteen gasteromycetes collected in Cuba 50 years ago.

“…, central and southern Africa(Bottomley 1948, Kreisel 2001, Asia(Dörfelt 2005, Kasuya et al 2011), and Hawaii (Gilbertson et al 2011.Geastrum kotlabaeV.J Staněk 1958. B r i e f d e s c r i p t i o n. Unexpanded fruitbodies not observed.…”