RESEARCH ARTICLE Study of three interesting Amanita species from Thailand: Morphology, multiple-gene phylogeny and toxin analysis Benjarong Thongbai1, Steven L. Miller2, Marc Stadler3, Kathrin Wittstein3, Kevin D. Hyde1, Saisamorn Lumyong4, Olivier Raspe 4,5,6* 1 Centre of Excellence in Fungal Research, and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand, 2 Botany Department, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America, 3 Department of Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research; and German Centre for Infection a1111111111 Research (DZIF), partner site Hannover/Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, 4 Department of Biology, a1111111111 Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 5 Botanic Garden Meise, Meise, Belgium, a1111111111 6 FeÂdeÂration Wallonie±Bruxelles, Service geÂneÂral de l'Enseignement universitaire et de la Recherche a1111111111 scientifique, Bruxelles, Belgium a1111111111 *
[email protected] Abstract OPEN ACCESS Amanita ballerina and A. brunneitoxicaria spp. nov. are introduced from Thailand. Amanita Citation: Thongbai B, Miller SL, Stadler M, Wittstein K, Hyde KD, Lumyong S, et al. (2017) fuligineoides is also reported for the first time from Thailand, increasing the known distribu- Study of three interesting Amanita species from tion of this taxon. Together, those findings support our view that many taxa are yet to be dis- Thailand: Morphology, multiple-gene phylogeny covered in the region. While both morphological characters and a multiple-gene phylogeny and toxin analysis. PLoS ONE 12(8): e0182131. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182131 clearly place A. brunneitoxicaria and A. fuligineoides in sect. Phalloideae (Fr.) QueÂl., the placement of A. ballerina is problematic. On the one hand, the morphology of A.