Two new species of Agaricales from southwestern islands of Japan

Abstract

Two new species of Agaricales are described and illustrated from Yaeyama Islands, southwestern Japan: (1) Amanita rubromarginata sp. nov. (section Caesareae Sing. ex Sing. in the subgenus Amanita), forming brownish-orange then reddish-yellow pileus, a pale yellow, squamulose stipe with a thin, membranous, reddish-orange annulus and a thick, saccate volva, and reddish-orange marginate lamellae, found in oak forests of Ishigaki Island; and (2) Tylopilus obscureviolaceus sp. nov. (section Tylopilus), having dark purple basidiomata, white, bitter, unchanging flesh, and a finely purplish-reticulate stipe, found in oak forests of Iriomote Island.