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Lepiota albogranulosa sp.nov. (Agaricales, Agaricaceae) from Lahore, Pakistan

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Lepiota albogranulosa sp. nov. is described as new species from Lahore, Pakistan, using morphological and molecular (nrITS) characters. Its striking features are: white to off-white basidiocarps, broadly ellipsoid spores, and a pileus covering, which is a hymeniderm with chains of cylindrical to clavate cells and globose to subglobose epithelial cells; it forms with L. scaberula, and L. cystophoroides/Cystolepiota cystophora a separate clade within sect. Cristatae.

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This research work was financially supported by the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

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  1. Department of Botany, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

    Tayyaba Qasim & A. N. Khalid

  2. Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Else C. Vellinga

  3. Sustainable Development Study Centre, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan

    Abdul Razaq

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Qasim, T., Khalid, A.N., Vellinga, E.C. et al. Lepiota albogranulosa sp.nov. (Agaricales, Agaricaceae) from Lahore, Pakistan. Mycol Progress 14, 24 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-015-1037-z

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