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Treading the fine line between small-statured Gymnopilus and excentrically stipitate Galerina species in Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

B. J. REES ,
D. A. ORLOVICH  and
P. B. D. MARKS
B. J. REES
Affiliation:
School of Biological Science, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia
D. A. ORLOVICH
Affiliation:
School of Biological Science, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia
P. B. D. MARKS
Affiliation:
Electron Microscope Unit, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia
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Abstract

Similar small-statured, frequently excentrically stipitate species of Gymnopilus and Galerina occurring in the same habitat in Australia appear to form a continuum morphologically. As a result of detailed examination of field and microscopic characters, and an analysis of their styrylpyrone pigment content by thin layer chromatography, a satisfactory distinction can be made between similar species of the two genera. Three new species of Gymnopilus subgenus Gymnopilus, G. corticophilus, G. tomentulosus and G. tasmanicus are described and compared with G. eucalyptorum, G. tyallus and G. moabus. These six species are also compared and contrasted with three excentrically stipitate Galerina species, Ga. eucalyptorum and two new species Ga. incrustata and an unusual pink Ga. bulliformis.

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Research Article
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Mycological Research , Volume 103 , Issue 4 , April 1999 , pp. 427 - 442
Copyright
The British Mycological Society 1999

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