Abstract
A new species of Amanita sect. Lepidella, A. heishidingensis, is described based on both morphological and molecular evidences. It was compared with similar species and illustrated with line drawings and photographs. This species was found in Heishiding National Nature Reserve, Guangdong Province, South China.
Highlights
The genus Amanita Pers. in China has been studied extensively in the last twenty years or so and over eighty species including several lethal ones caused many troubles and losses have been reported from China (Yang 1994, 1997, 2005; Zhang et al 2010; Chen et al 2014; Deng et al 2014)
Additional Collections were deposited in HKAS or in the Tottori Mycological Institute (TMI), Tottori, Japan
Our data indicated that the new species is morphologically different from A. japonica
Summary
The genus Amanita Pers. in China has been studied extensively in the last twenty years or so and over eighty species including several lethal ones caused many troubles and losses have been reported from China (Yang 1994, 1997, 2005; Zhang et al 2010; Chen et al 2014; Deng et al 2014). In China has been studied extensively in the last twenty years or so and over eighty species including several lethal ones caused many troubles and losses have been reported from China (Yang 1994, 1997, 2005; Zhang et al 2010; Chen et al 2014; Deng et al 2014). Since November 2008, the first author has collected mushrooms in Heishiding National Nature Reserve (111°49′′09′′– 111°55′01′′E, 23°25′15′′–23°30′02′′N), Guangdong Province, China, and found more than 30 taxa of Amanita there. Found in forests dominated by fagaceous trees, is described and illustrated as a new species
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