Scleroderma Capeverdeanum Fungal Planet Description Sheets 413

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Scleroderma capeverdeanum Fungal Planet description sheets 413

Fungal Planet 447 – 4 July 2016 Scleroderma capeverdeanum M.P. Martín, M. Dueñas & Telleria, sp. nov.

Etymology. The name refers to the country where the holotype was col- Notes — Mature basidiomes of Scleroderma capeverde lected. anum show a peridium with brown squamules, similar to Scle Classification — Sclerodermataceae, Boletales, Agaricomy roderma verrucosum, a species widely distributed in Azores, cetes. Canaria Islands, Madeira and Morocco (Kreisel 2001), also with echinulate spores; however, in young specimens, the peridium Macroscopic characteristics — Basidiomes epigeous, de- is finely areolated as in Scleroderma bovista, but this species pressed globose to subglobose, 0.8–20 mm diam, sessile (all has reticulate spores. Specimens of S. capeverdeanum were the sizes from dry specimens); the base attached to the sub- found in the same locality as collection MA-Fungi 87407 of strate by a tuft of mycelium and rhizomorphs. Peridium thin (up Scleroderma bovista, as indicated in the additional material to 1 mm thick), 2-layered: external layer pale yellowish to yel- examined. Based on a megablast search of NCBIs GenBank lowish brown (colour 250; Séguy 1936) covered by dark brown nucleotide database, the closest hits using ITS sequences of scales (colour 701), very thin in young specimens, leaving the S. capeverdeanum were two sequences of Chinese specimens surface finely areolated; internal layer whitish. Dehiscence by collected under Eucalyptus grandis (GenBank HM237173 and an irregular and lacerate apical pore. Gleba compact when HM237174), and misidentified as S. polyrhizum and S. auran young, becoming powdery when old, blue greyish (colour 493) tium, respectively. In the ITS analyses S. capeverdeanum to grey-violet (colour 660). cluster with these two sequences from China, as a sister group Microscopic characteristics — Basidiospores globose, 8.5– of S. dunensis, a new species described from Brazil (this issue). 9.5(–10.5) μm diam, including ornamentation, densely echinu- Until now, no species of Scleroderma were reported from Cape late (ornamentation 0.5–1 μm high), dark brown in 5 % KOH. Verde. Outer layer of peridium composed of interwoven hyphae, hyaline to yellowish, 3.5–4 μm diam; the inner layer composed of HF933235, Macedonia HF933240, Macedonia interwoven hyphae, hyaline, 3–5 μm diam, with clamp-connec- HF933234, Macedonia HF933236, Macedonia FM213340, Spain tions. FM213341, Hungary MPM3241, Cape Verde S. bovista HF933242, Serbia 97 EU784409, UK ape erde AB211267, Japan Typus. C V , Santiago Island, Parque Natural Serra de Malagueta, GQ267487, New Zealand EU819517, USA Concejo Sta. Catarina, alt. 907 m, N15°10'28" W28°40'37", on a slope AB099901, Japan JX205215, Thailand S. suthepense FM213339, USA under Furcraea foetida and Lantana camara, 20 Sept. 2010, M.P. Martín 72 FM213338, USA 100 EU718121 FM213337, USA S. septentrionale MPM3238 (holotype MA-Fungi 87406, ITS sequence GenBank KU747111, FM213342, USA 100 AY935514, Spain LSU sequence GenBank KU747110, MycoBank MB816518). HF933239, Macedonia S. meridionale HF933238 , Macedonia UFRN-Fungos 1361, Brazil UFRN-Fungos 1359, Brazil Additional material examined of Scleroderma bovista. Cape Verde, San- UFRN-Fungos 2553, Brazil UFRN-Fungos 2549, Brazil 100 UFRN-Fungos 2033, Brazil tiago Island, Parque Natural Serra de Malagueta, Concejo Sta. Catarina, UFRN-Fungos 2035, Brazil S. dunensis sp. nov. UFRN-Fungos 2501, Brazil alt. 914 m, N15°10'28" W28°40'37", on a slope, 20 Sept. 2010, M.P. Martín 63 UFRN-Fungos 2206, Brazil UFRN-Fungos 2249, Brazil UFRN-Fungos 2551, Brazil MPM3241 (MA-Fungi 87407, ITS sequence GenBank KX017590). HM237173, China (S. polyrhizum) 100 HM237174, China (S. aurantiacum) S. capeverdeanum sp. nov. MA-Fungi 87406, Cape Verde JQ639040, China JQ639041, China 100 JQ639042, China JQ639043, China S. yunnanense JQ639043, China JQ639045, China JQ639046, China 100 91 HQ688789, Argentina HQ688788, Argentina S. patagonicum FM213336, Sweden (S. septentrionale) FM213333, UK FM213334, UK FM213335, UK 50 98 GQ166907, USA EU784413, UK S. citrinum EU784414, UK FJ824090, USA FM213345, USA FM213344, USA 94 EU819439, USA EU819441, USA FM213346, USA S. michiganense FM213347, USA FM213348, USA UFRN-Fungos 2034, Brazil UFRN-Fungos 2219, Brazil 100 UFRN-Fungos 1759, Brazil S. nitidum UFRN-Fungos 2550, Brazil UFRN-Fungos 2500, Brazil EU784412, UK FM213354, Spain HF93323, Macedonia 94 HF933232, Macedonia Strict consensus tree of 100 equally most parsimonious trees AJ629886, Spain S. verrucosum HF933241, Macedonia HF933233, Macedonia was obtained after heuristic search (PAUP v. 4.0a147) of EU784415, UK EU718117 81 88 FM213355, USA ITS nrDNA sequences. The two new Scleroderma species FM213343, Thailand S. cepa DQ453694, USA FM213353, USA described in this issue are marked with rectangles: S. cape FM213352, USA EU819438, USA S. areolatum 96 GQ166910, USA verdeanum and S. dunensis (see Fungal Planet 448). New FM213351, USA HF933231, Macedonia KJ740390, Nepal S. nastii sequences of S. bovista from Cape Verde, and S. nitidium from FJ840461, Burkina Faso (S. verrucosum) 60 100 FM213350, USA S. polyrhizum FM213349, USA EU718118 S. bermudense Brazil are marked in bold. The accession number from EMBL/ 100 FJ840449, Burkina Faso FJ840443, Burkina Faso S. dictyosporum FM213364, Thailand GenBank or UNITE databases are indicated. Bootstrap values FM213363, Thailand FM213362, Thailand FM213361, Thailand greater than 50 % are indicated on the branches. As in our 100 FM213360, Thailand S. sinnamariense FM213359, Thailand 80 FM213358, Thailand preliminary studies (Phosri et al. 2009, Rusevska et al. 2014), FM213357, Thailand HQ687222, Thailand FM213356, Thailand Pisolithus arhizus was included as outgroup. EU718126 S. xanthochroum FM213365, Pisolithus arhizus

Colour illustrations. Cape Verde, Parque Natural Serra de Malagueta, where the species was collected (M.T. Telleria); basidiome (holotype MA- Fungi 87406), echinulate spores (holotype MA-Fungi 87406). Scale bars: basidiomata = 0.5 cm; spores = 1 µm.

María P. Martín, Margarita Dueñas & M. Teresa Telleria, Departamento de Micología, Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC, Plaza de Murillo 2, 28014 Madrid, Spain; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] & [email protected]