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Correspondence to Author: Wizini RU and Kontu Li 

Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy.

Keywords :Agaricales – Lyophyllaceae – taxonomy

INTRODUCTIONDuring a lengthy field study of Agaricales, we discovered a Lyophyllum P. Karst. emend. Kühner collection at La Palma, Canary Islands, for which we were unable to come up with a suitable name. Small, smooth, globose to subglobose basidiospores, not longer than 30 µm, are carried by small basidia, and the brown, medium-sized basidiomes with clearly black lamellae in siccis. At an elevation of 1300 meters above sea level, in a pine forest with Pinus radiata Don, Rose Marie Dähncke collected a collection of many basidiomes that are in a good condition of conservation. We suggest naming this agaric species after our colleague and friend Rose Marie Dähncke. who has found numerous new Lyophyllaceae taxa in La Palma; the majority of these taxa are the subject of upcoming studies.

Citation:

Wizini RU. From La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain), Lyophyllum rosae-mariae sp. nov. (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) was discovered. The Journal of Fungi 2024.