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Key words: ectomycorrhizas # #\ Guineo-Congolian rainforest hypogeous fungi Uapaca IMA FUNGUS · 7(2): 239–245 (2016) 239–245 · 7(2): FUNGUS IMA (Peh et al. 2014). and Terry W. Henkel W. Terry and
) , 5 43’46.9” W, 650 m a.s.l., in mixed forest 43’46.9” W, species o Basidiomycota , Uapaca Phyllanthaceae). Molecular and morphological ( Our recent collecting in the Dja Biosphere Reserve ofOur recent collecting in the Dja Biosphere 21’29.8” N 12 o Descriptions of macromorphological features are from , Bryn T. M. Dentinger M. T. , Bryn 4 # \ # { al. 2016). of sequestrate fungi,southern Cameroon discovered a number " G# # (Castellano et al.ascomata from native plant communities collections is a2016). Included in the Dja Biosphere Reserve basidiomatamorphologically distinctive fungus that produces tropical rainforests ingregariously in soil in lowland, mixed trees of the genusclose proximity to ectomycorrhizal (ECM) Uapaca fungus is adata indicate that this Cameroonian sequestrate member of Boletaceae but is evolutionarily distinct from all other described epigeous and sequestrate genera and species within the family. MATERIALS AND METHODS MATERIALS Collections August–September Basidiomata were collected during the Dja Biosphere early rainy season of 2014 from Cameroon’s Reserve, Northwest Sector near the village of Somalomo, Upper Dja River Basin, ~1.4 km west of a base camp located at 3 containing Agaricomycetes ,
et justify the recognition of the new taxa. et al. et al. , Olivier Séné Boletales 3 described from the greater African tropics, and African tropics, described from the greater ) in a Guineo-Congolian mixed tropical rainforest in ) in a Guineo-Congolian mixed tropical rainforest Costatisporus, et al. 2013, Smith Russulaceae) was et al. 2012, Orihara , Camille Truong , Camille 2 et al. 2000, Mueller Durianella, Spongiforma, Castellanea, (Phyllanthaceae gen. sp. nov. is described as new to science. This sequestrate, science. is described as new to gen. sp. nov. Solioccasus and Royoungia, * Mycoamaranthus, and Octaviania Uapaca are currently limited to a single species , Todd F. Elliott F. Todd , 1 et al. 2012, Lebel
is the fourth sequestrate Boletaceae Boletaceae Kombocles bakaiana