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Identity of Agaricus brevipes Bull. (Melanoleuca brevipes, Tricholomataceae, Basidiomycota)

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Melanoleuca brevipes (basionym Agaricus brevipes) represents one of the most frequently identified Melanoleuca species. However, there are several concepts of this taxon, and thus the identity of this species is unclear. This species was studied, based on the original table by Bulliard, macromorphological and micromorphological characters, and DNA sequences of recent collections and herbarium specimens. DNA sequences of ITS, RPB2 and tef1 markers revealed that specimens identified as M. brevipes belong to three species (M. humilis, M. grammopodia, and M. malenconii), where M. humilis or M. malenconii may resemble Bulliard’s original species. According to these results, Agaricus brevipes is therefore considered a nomen dubium. A lectotype of M. grammopodia is proposed herein.

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Acknowledgments

The studies of the first author were enabled by the support provided to the Moravian Museum by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic as part of its long-term conceptual development programme for research institutions (DKRVO, ref. MK000094862). The second author thanks the Comenius University Grant Agency, project no. UK/231/2014, and the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic for support provided. The work of the last author was supported by the European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic, Project Indicators of trees vitality Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0265. We also thank the curators of the LIP and W herbaria for loans of the type and other herbarium specimens, and J. Borovička (Prague, Czech Republic) and R. Courtecuisse (Lille, France) for providing their collections. The authors also wish to thank R. Fontenla (Macerata, Italy) and R. Para (Pesaro, Italy) for valuable information on some type specimens, J.W. Jongepier (Veselí nad Moravou, Czech Republic) for linguistic improvement, and L. Ilkovics (Masaryk University, Medical Faculty, Department of Histology and Embryology, Brno, Czech Republic) for providing the SEM microphotographs of the basidiospores.

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  1. Department of Botany, Moravian Museum, Zelný trh 6, CZ-659 37, Brno, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Antonín

  2. Department of Pharmacognosy and Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Odbojárov 10, SK-832 32, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Ondrej Ďuriška

  3. Department of Botany, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Révová 39, SK-81102, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Soňa Jančovičová

  4. Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, CZ-613 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Michal Tomšovský

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Antonín, V., Ďuriška, O., Jančovičová, S. et al. Identity of Agaricus brevipes Bull. (Melanoleuca brevipes, Tricholomataceae, Basidiomycota). Mycol Progress 14, 107 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-015-1125-0

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