Mycological Progress (2019) 18:713–739
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-019-01483-5
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Progress on the phylogeny of the Omphalotaceae: Gymnopus s. str.,
Marasmiellus s. str., Paragymnopus gen. nov. and Pusillomyces
gen. nov.
Jadson J. S. Oliveira 1,2 & Ruby Vargas-Isla 2 & Tiara S. Cabral 2,3 & Doriane P. Rodrigues 4 & Noemia K. Ishikawa 1,2
Received: 9 August 2018 / Revised: 22 February 2019 / Accepted: 26 February 2019
# German Mycological Society and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019
Abstract
Omphalotaceae is the family of widely distributed and morphologically diverse marasmioid and gymnopoid agaric genera.
Phylogenetic studies have included the family in Agaricales, grouping many traditionally and recently described genera of saprotrophic
or parasitic mushroom-producing fungi. However, some genera in Omphalotaceae have not reached a stable concept that reflects
monophyletic groups with identifiable morphological circumscription. This is the case of Gymnopus and Marasmiellus, which have
been the target of two opposing views: (1) a more inclusive Gymnopus encompassing Marasmiellus, or (2) a more restricted Gymnopus
(s. str.) while Marasmiellus remains a distict genus; both genera still await a more conclusive phylogenetic hypothesis coupled with
morphological recognition. Furthermore, some new genera or undefined clades need more study. In the present paper, a phylogenetic
study was conducted based on nrITS and nrLSU in single and multilocus analyses including members of the Omphalotaceae, more
specifically of the genera belonging to the /letinuloid clade. The resulting trees support the view of a more restricted Gymnopus and a
distinct Marasmiellus based on monophyletic and strongly supported clades on which their morphological circumscriptions and
taxonomic treatments are proposed herein. The results also provide evidence for the description of two new genera: Paragymnopus
and Pusillomyces. Pusillomyces manuripioides sp. nov. (type species of the genus) is described with morphological description,
taxonomic and ecological remarks, and illustrations.
Keywords Agaricales . Amazon forest . Marasmioid . Gymnopoid . Plant pathogen . Taxonomy
Section Editor: Zhu-Liang Yang
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* Jadson J. S. Oliveira
oliveira.j.j.s.86@gmail.com
1
Divisão do Curso de Pós-graduação em Botânica – DIBOT, Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA, Av. André Araújo 2936,
Manaus, AM 69067-375, Brazil
2
Coordenação de Biodiversidade – COBIO, Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA, Av. André Araújo 2936,
Manaus, AM 69067-375, Brazil
3
Divisão do Curso de Pós-graduação em Genética, Conservação e
Biologia Evolutiva – DIGEN, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da
Amazônia – INPA, Av. André Araújo 2936,
Manaus, AM 69067-375, Brazil
4
Laboratório de Evolução Aplicada, BLM, Divisão de Biotecnologia,
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas,
Av. General Rodrigo Otávio Jordão Ramos 3000,
Manaus, AM 69077-000, Brazil
Introduction
Several groups in the euagarics have been the target of important changes in their classification as multiple molecular phylogenetic studies have shaped new systematic understanding
in the Agaricales (Moncalvo et al. 2000, 2002; Binder and
Hibbett 2002; Matheny et al. 2006; Dentinger et al. 2016).
One of the groups of this order that has undergone changes,
the family Omphalotaceae was initially proposed within the
Boletales (sensu Kühner) by Kämmerer et al. (1985) based on
the typical sesquiterpenes and the ability to cause white-rot
and including genera such as Omphalotus Fayod and
Lampteromyces Singer. Additionally, many current members
of Omphalotaceae were classified in Tricholomataceae in
Singer’s system (Singer 1986) and in Marasmiaceae in
Kühner’s system (Kühner 1980). However, based on morphology, Halling (1996) and Antonín et al. (1997) recombined
several species or transferred complete sections out of
Collybia (Fr.) Staude to Gymnopus (Pers.) Roussel.
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The family, as currently accepted, was classified in the
Agaricales based on phylogenetic studies and Collybia was
shown to be polyphyletic (Moncalvo et al. 2000, 2002,
Matheny et al. 2006). Collybia dryophila (Bull.) P. Kumm.
and C. polyphylla (Peck) Singer ex Halling [combined in
Gymnopus in Murrill (1916) and Antonín et al. (1997), respectively], and C. maculata (Alb. & Schwein.) P. Kumm. [combined in Rhodocollybia in Singer (1939)] grouped in the
Bclade A^ (Moncalvo et al. 2000) that corresponds to the clade
/omphalotaceae in Moncalvo et al. (2002), which is unrelated
to the clade /collybia. In Matheny et al. (2006), the clade
Omphalotaceae [equivalent to /omphalotaceae in Moncalvo
et al. (2002)] grouped within the Marasmioid major clade
(IV), but C. tuberosa (type of Collybia) branched in the
subclade Clitocybeae [Collybia - Clitocybe group including
/collybi a i n M oncalvo e t al . ( 20 02 )] w i t h i n t h e
Tricholomatoid major clade (V). Gymnopus branched as a
member of the clade Omphalotaceae showing no close relatedness with Collybia s.str. The clade Omphalotaceae grouped
as sister to the clade Marasmiaceae with strong support in the
same major clade (Matheny et al. 2006) and in the suborder
Marasmiineae (Dentinger et al. 2016).
However, Gymnopus branched as multiple, nonmonophyletic groups as also did Marasmiellus Murril
(Moncalvo et al. 2002; Mata et al. 2004a; Wilson and
Desjardin 2005; Hughes et al. 2010; Petersen and Hughes
2017), this latter historically segregated from Marasmius Fr.
[see Mata et al. (2004a), Wilson and Desjardin (2005) and
Antonín and Noordeloos (2010)]. Based on analysis of nrITS
data, Mata et al. (2004a) argued that, by placing Marasmiellus
juniperinus Murrill (type species of the genus) within a clade
dominated by accepted Gymnopus taxa, either Gymnopus
would be monophyletic including Marasmiellus as a synonym,
or the limited clade to which M. juniperinus belongs would be a
segregated genus (Marasmiellus sensu Wilson and Desjardin
(2003) or Collybiopsis Earle) and Gymnopus would be polyphyletic. Mata et al. (2004a) accepted the first scenario, proposing the combination of M. juniperinus in a broad concept of
Gymnopus.
However, Wilson and Desjardin (2005) argued for keeping
Marasmiellus and Gymnopus as distinct genera. Their results
based on nrLSU data revealed an unsupported, but discrete
clade grouping M. juniperinus and Marasmiellus synodicus
(Kunze) Singer (sect. Dealbati), also including many taxa of
Gymnopus sect. Vestipedes. They named the clade
/marasmiellus, which was not closely related to their clade
/gymnopus, this latter including Gymnopus fusipes (Bull.)
Gray (type species) along with other taxa of the genus, as well
as Setulipes androsaceus (L.) Antonín (type of Setulipes) and
Micromphale Gray taxa [among them the type M. foetidum
(Sowerby) Singer]. They concluded that until further species
belonging to Gymnopus sect. Vestipedes and Levipedes,
Marasmiellus (all sections) and Setulipes are added to the
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analyses, they do not support recognition of a more inclusive
Gymnopus [sensu Mata et al. (2004a)]. They suggested that
Marasmiellus s. str. could accommodate the members of
Gymnopus sect. Vestipedes (i.e., /marasmiellus). Another argument was that by including Marasmiellus within a broad
Gymnopus, then Rhodocollybia, Lentinula and Mycetinis
Earle also would have to be accepted as synonyms of
Gymnopus and then it would be monophyletic (Wilson and
Desjardin 2005). Moreover, other Marasmiellus representatives grouped in other multiple unrelated positions.
Despite these arguments, the broad concept of
Gymnopus—encompassing Marasmiellus, Micromphale,
and Mycetinis—was kept by Mata et al. (2006), using the most
comprehensive sampling of nrITS sequence data for
gymnopoid/marasmielloid taxa to date. This broad
Gymnopus was represented by the clade A–N whereas it is
possible to observe two major clades: (1) a superclade grouping the clades A–C, and (2) superclade D consisting of
subclades E–N. In comparison with Wilson and Desjardin
(2005), the first major clade can correspond to /gymnopus
and the second (excluding current Mycetinis species) to
/marasmiellus. Mata et al. (2006) also observed that their clade
D is populated predominantly by members of Gymnopus sect.
Vestipedes and corresponded to such section.
Micromphale also had problematic phylogenetic relationships (Moncalvo et al. 2002; Mata et al. 2004a, 2006; Wilson
and Desjardin 2005; Petersen and Hughes 2016). See more about
the taxonomy of Micromphale in Antonín and Noordeloos
(2010) and Petersen and Hughes (2016). Petersen and Hughes
(2016) focused more on the uncertain phylogenetic position of
Micromphale perforans (Hoffm.) Gray, analyzing it along with
other taxa that could be considered in Micromphale sect.
Perforantia with respect to the traditional taxonomy. They found
a distinct and monophyletic clade grouping M. perforans,
Gymnopus foliiphilus R.H. Petersen, G. pinophilus R.H.
Petersen, G. ponderosae R.H. Petersen, G. sequoiae
(Desjardin) R.H. Petersen, and G. sublaccatus R.H. Petersen,
as sister (with very weak support) to a clade dominated by
Gymnopus spp. corresponding to /gymnopus in Wilson and
Desjardin (2005). According to the broad view of Mata et al.
(2004a), using nrLSU for the large tree (Fig. 85 in their study),
Petersen and Hughes (2016) combined Micromphale sect.
Perforantia in Gymnopus sect. Perforantia.
Hughes et al. (2010) proposed the new genus Connopus
R.H. Petersen to accommodate Gymnopus acervatus (Fr.)
Murrill, based on nrITS or nrLSU data, finding it somewhat
closely related to Rhodocollybia taxa likewise in Mata et al.
(2006). Dutta et al. (2015) also used nrITS or nrLSU data in
singlelocus analyses for the phylogenetic placement of their
new species, Marasmiellus foliiphilus A.K. Dutta, K. Acharya
& Antonín, and records of four Gymnopus spp. based on collections from India. Marasmiellus foliiphilus grouped in the
moderately supported clade A (Fig. 6a in their study) which
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corresponds to the clade /marasmiellus (Wilson and Desjardin
2005). Sandoval-Leiva et al. (2016), based on ITS–5’-28S
rDNA, provided a more resolved tree of various marasmioid
and gymnopoid genera [Marasmioid clade of Matheny et al.
(2006)] and proposed the new and monotypic genus
Gymnopanella Sandoval-Leiva, J.V. McDonald & Thorn.
The pleurotoid, flabelliform to reniform Gymnopanella
nothofagi Sandoval-Leiva, J.V. McDonald, and Thorn was
sister to the clade named BGymnopus, including Setulipes^
[corresponding to /gymnopus in Wilson and Desjardin
(2005)], but with no statistical support. They also found the
clade /marasmiellus, corresponding to /marasmiellus in
Wilson and Desjardin (2005), but with good statistical support. They did not discuss this finding though.
Petersen and Hughes (2017) conducted an investigation on
Mycetinis, also segregated from Marasmius. The genus was
resurrected by Wilson and Desjardin (2005) based on a monophyletic group formed by members of the previous Marasmius
sect. Alliacei (Kühner 1933; Singer 1976, 1986). This clade was
distinct and strongly supported, named Bclade F^ within the
Bclade A^ assigned to Omphalotaceae. In the Gymnopus phylogeny with related clades/genera, Petersen and Hughes (2017)
also observed two major clades, one with numerous Gymnopus
taxa, including G. fusipes, G. androsaceus (L.) Della Magg. &
Trassin. (previously Setulipes), and Gymnopus sect. Perforantia,
and the second also grouping several Gymnopus species, and
additional clades treated as Connopus, Lentinula, Marasmius
pallidocephalus Gilliam (probably a monotypic genus), and
Rhodocollybia. They also included Gymnopanella as part of this
second major clade.
These studies approached groups within Omphalotaceae
with single locus phylogenetic analyses using nrLSU or
nrITS, except for Sandoval-Leiva et al. (2016) and Petersen
and Hughes (2016). Sandoval-Leiva et al. (2016) used the
combined ITS–5’-28S rDNA of a broad dataset composed
of members of Omphalotaceae (broader sampling),
Marasmiaceae, Physalacriaceae, and the outgroup formed by
Pleurotaceae, Panellus P. Karst., and Entolomataceae strains,
recovering a relatively well-resolved tree with many main
clades strongly supported. However, their analyses
(Bayesian and neighbor-joining) were apparently not
partitioned and they only focused on the establishment of
Gymnopanella, distinguishing it (phylogenetically and morphologically) from other genera. Petersen and Hughes (2016)
used combined nrITS and nrLSU only for Gymnopus sect.
Perforantia taxa (Fig. 86 in their study). Their restricted analyses were apparently not partitioned and only dealt with species level comparison within the section.
According to MycoBank (Robert et al. 2013), Omphalotaceae
has currently ten associated genera: Anthracophyllum Ces.,
Caripia Kuntze, Gymnopanella, Gymnopus, Lentinula,
Marasmiellus, Mycetinis, Neonothopanus R.H. Petersen &
Krisai, Omphalotus, and Rhodocollybia (all included in various
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phylogenetic studies during these approximately past two decades). We do accept the combination of Micromphale in
Gymnopus (but see the results of this study), and it would be
probably the same for Caripia, awaiting more study. We also
defend Mycetinis as a distinct genus, in agreement with Wilson
and Desjardin (2005) and Petersen and Hughes (2017).
Initially, this study began with the intent to infer the phylogenetic affiliation of an unusual fungal species (very similar
to Manuripia Singer) collected in the central Amazonian tropical forest (Amazonas, Brazil), but with distinct micromorphological and ecological characteristics. LSU sequences (also
combined with ITS) were used to determine in which
marasmioid family this taxon was a member. The results from
preliminary analyses not only indicated that this fungus is
member of a new genus but also led to a partial revision of
the Omphalotaceae, the family of the new fungus. This partial
revision addresses the question of which view of Gymnopus
would reflect more the natural systematics within the family:
(i) the more inclusive Gymnopus sensu Mata et al. (2004a,
2006), or (ii) a more restricted Gymnopus suggested by
Wilson and Desjardin (2005). Also, this study allowed the
evaluation of the recently proposed genera, sections, and informal clades. Thus, we conducted thorough and broad
Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses to reconstruct
phylogenies in Omphalotaceae, with more emphasis on the
groups of the clade /lentinuloid (Moncalvo et al. 2002), using
combined nrITS and nrLSU (multilocus) in partitioned processes, along with separate single locus analyses as explained
in the methodology. The results include the description of the
plant pathogen Pusillomyces manuripioides sp. nov. et gen.
nov., Paragymnopus gen. nov. and a solution to the case of
Gymnopus and Marasmiellus. Phylogenetic trees are provided, and morphological description, taxonomic and ecological
comments, and illustrations of the new Amazonian species
ascribed to Omphalotaceae.
Material and methods
Areas sampled
T h e h o l o t y p e a n d 11 a d d i t i o n a l s p e c i m e n s o f
Pusillomyces manuripioides sp. nov. were collected from
the BReserva Biológica de Campina^ (RBC), Km 60 on
the road BR-174, between Manaus and Boa Vista districts. The area has 900 ha of typical BCampina^ and
BCampinarana^ (Online Resource – Fig. O6a) vegetation
types, the former characterized by sparse shrubby and
herbaceous vegetation on sandy white soil in an open
and sunny savanna-like area while the latter consists of
a wood of arboreal to subarboreal vegetation, with slightly open canopy, also on sandy soil. The specimens were
found in the Campinarana area, which forms a matrix
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where islands of Campina are found. The RBC is a
protected area under the BInstituto Nacional de
Pesquisas da Amazônia^ (INPA) management.
Morphological examination
The specimens were photographed both when fresh and
dried. Macroscopic description was carried out based on
fresh and dried material using a stereo microscope. Color
coding follows Küppers (2002). For microscopic examination, samples were rehydrated in 70% ethanol, and thin
sections were mounted in 3% KOH or in Melzer’s reagent. Basidiospores were described including dimensions as the range of length × the range of width, followed by xrm, the range of the arithmetic means of length ×
the same for width; xmm, the mean of the arithmetic
means of length (± standard deviation (SD)) × the same
for width (± SD); Qrm, the range of the means of length/
width; Qmm, the mean of the means of length/width (±
SD); n, the number of spores measured; and s, the number of sampled collections. Basidiomata were
photographed in the field using a digital camera, and in
the laboratory using a Stereoscopic Microscope Leica
M205 C with camera Leica MC 190 HD.
Microstructures were also photographed using a digital
camera coupled to the Leica DM 2500 optical microscope, with an image capture via LEICA EC3 camera
and pre-edited in LAS EZ. Line drawings of the microstructures were made with a drawing tube and edited in
CorelDRAW X7. The collections were deposited in the
Herbarium INPA.
DNA extraction, amplification, and sequencing
DNA was extracted directly from cultures using a DNeasy
Plant Mini Kit (Qiagen). The nrITS and nrLSU regions were
amplified using ITS5/ITS4 and LR0R/LR5, respectively
(White et al. 1990). The PCR reactions had a final volume
of 25 μl and included 1 U Platinum® Taq DNA Polymerase,
1× PCR Buffer and 1 .5mM MgCl2 (Invitrogen), 3 mM of
each dNTP (Promega Corporation), 2 μM of each primer, and
1 μl of DNA at 25 ng/μl. The PCR profile for the nrITS and
nrLSU amplifications consisted of an initial step of 2 min at
95 °C, followed by 35 cycles of 94 °C for 30 s, 55 °C for 30 s,
72 °C for 1 min, and then a final extension step at 72 °C for
10 min. PCR fragments were visualized in a 1.5% agarose gel
stained with GelRED™ (Biotium), under ultraviolet light. The
fragments were purified using ExoSAP-IT™ (ThermoFisher
Scientific) and then sequenced using BigDye™ Terminator
v3.1 Cycle Sequencing (ThermoFisher Scientific). The quality of the electropherograms was analyzed in Geneious R7
(Biomatters Ltd.).
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Molecular data processing and phylogenetic analyses
Corresponding/complementary forward and reverse reads
were assembled to obtain clean consensus sequences in
Geneious R7, with trimming of extremities. Sequences of
nrLSU and nrITS regions were included in datasets according
to three approaches: (a) DATASET 1, newly generated nrLSU
sequences with those in the GenBank database (NCBI) of
closest taxa (BLAST - http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) along
with representatives of mostly genera of Omphalotaceae to
form the ingroup, also including members of other families
of the Marasmioid clade and the Mycenaceae clade, and the
outgroup with members of the Tricholomatoid clade
(Matheny et al. 2006); (b) DATASET 2, only nrITS data using
the newly generated sequences with sequences of closest taxa/
genus revealed via BLAST searches in the GenBank database
(NCBI) along with representatives of genera belonging to
Omphalotaceae and representatives of Marasmiaceae as the
outgroup (Matheny et al. 2006); (c) DATASET 3, newly generated sequences nrITS + nrLSU of the same collection combined data of representatives of genera belonging to
Omphalotaceae in the GenBank database (NCBI) as the
ingroup and combined sequences of a few representatives of
Marasmiaceae as the outgroup. Sequences in GenBank
(NCBI) were downloaded (Online Resource - Table O1), their
quality checked, and used in the respective dataset.
DATASET 1 served as a comprehensive analysis to verify
the phylogenetic placement of the new species (and new genus) within the Marasmioid major clade of the Agaricales [or
suborder Marasmiineae according to Dentinger et al. (2016)],
testing the family where it belongs and whether or not the
taxon represents a new genus in Omphalotaceae (family and
genus level). DATASET 2 grouped representatives of a very
comprehensive breadth of species of genera in Omphalotaceae
to test the phylogenetic relationship of the new taxon at
Bspecies level,^ since most of the Omphalotaceae species with
publicly available sequence data are represented by nrITS.
DATASET 3 tested the phylogenetic placement of the new
taxon at genus and species level in a tentatively better tree
resolution of the Omphalotaceae. All data used in this study
are listed in the Online Resource - Table O1. The alignments
were produced via MUSCLE (Edgar 2004). Ambiguously
aligned regions were excluded from the nucleotide matrices
by visual inspection in Geneious R7 (Kearse et al. 2012). The
nucleotide substitution models were inferred via jModeltest
2.1.3 (Darriba et al. 2012) or MrModeltest 2.3. (Nylander
2004). All datasets and alignments can be found in
TreeBASE 23780. The model selected per dataset was
GTR+I+G for all partitions.
We conducted MC3 Bayesian analyses (BA) with MrBayes
3.2.1 (Ronquist et al. 2012), using default settings from the
model (Nst = 6). For all datasets, BA consisted of two independent runs: (a) 10,000,000 generations, sampling frequency
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every 1000 generations, six independent chains and two
swaps, even for partitioned analysis (LSU and ITS concatenated). All burnin was set at 10%. Final trees were based on 50%
majority-rule consensus method. Branch lengths went across
the 95% highest posterior density trees. For maximum likelihood (ML), the trees (Online Resource Figs. O2, O4–O5)
were reconstructed using the GTR+Γ+I model in RAxML
7.0.4 (Stamatakis 2006) with fast-bootstrapping implementing
CAT approximations for 1000 pseudoreplicates and a full ML
optimization for the final tree. Pairwise comparisons were
performed in Geneious R7 using nrITS data when necessary.
The phylogenetic trees were visualized and pre-edited in
FigTree 1.3.1, and the main edition was conducted in
CorelDRAW X7.
Results
Phylogenetic analyses
Three analyses were conducted on three different datasets explained in the BMaterial and methods.^ The analyses on
DATASET 1 resulted in the nrLSU trees (50% majority-rule
consensus (tree length (TL)) = 23.821670 – Fig. 1, Online
Fig. 1 Bayesian 50% majorityrule consesus tree from the single
locus (nrLSU) analysis of
DATASET 1 [tree length (TL)
(mean of the means from two
runs), 23.821670; −lnL (mean), −
14,951.21]. Support values at the
nodes consist of PP ≥ 0.95 and
BS ≥ 70; unsupported nodes under PP 0.5 are collapsed. Thicker
stems in black represent highly
supported nodes, and those in
gray are moderately to weakly
supported nodes. Major clades are
simplified, representing family
level groups as depicted in the
figure. Outgroup consists of
members of Clitocybe, Collybia,
Entoloma, Lepista, Mycena s. str.,
and Tricholoma
Resource Figs. O3, O4; and ML tree (TL) = 3.961914 in
Online Resource Fig. O5). With the estimated marginal likelihood arithmetic mean between BA runs in − 14951.21, model parameters are summarized in Table 1. On an alignment of
737 distinct patterns, the ML analysis and applying GAMMA
model parameters estimated up to an accuracy of
0.1000000000 log likelihood units, the final ML optimization
likelihood was − 14,090.021877, and the parameters for
DATASET 1 alignment are in Table 1. The tree ingroup (PP
1.0/BS 65) consisted of five relevant clades: /omphalotaceae
(PP 0.95, BS 72), /physalacriaceae (PP 1.0, BS 97),
/cyphellaceae (PP 0.99, BS 44), /hydropoid (PP 0.54, BS
18), and /marasmiaceae (PP 1.0, BS 66); the clade
/mycenaceae (PP 1.0, BS 99), however, grouped within the
outgroup. Pusillomyces manuripioides branched within
/omphalotaceae. In the same broad tree, the new species
grouped with Gymnopus asetosus Antonín, R. Ryoo & K.
H. Ka and G. funalis (Har. Takah.) Antonín, R. Ryoo & K.
H. Ka, all these taxa forming a distinct subclade (PP 1.0, BS
100). We also observed these three taxa closely related in the
ITS trees (Online Resource Figs. O1, O2) from the analyses
on the DATASET 2, forming a strongly supported subclade
(PP 1.0, BS 100) in the ingroup (only members of
Omphalotaceae).
Omphalotaceae
0.98
Pusillomyces manuripioides sp. nov.
1.0
1.0
1.0
Marasmiaceae
Physalacriaceae
Hydropoid clade
Cyphellaceae
Outgroup
0.99
1.0
0.2
718
Table 1
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Data from ML and BA analyses of DATASET 1
DATASET 1 alignment
Taxa
Characters
217
1340
Calculations from ML and BA
ML (means)
Alpha
0.209886
BA (means)
0.268692
Pinvar
0.440729
Substitution rates
(A<=>C)
(A<=>G)
1.027500
7.738497
0.047838
0.381134
(A<=>T)
(C<=>G)
2.201518
0.482952
0.084752
0.026203
(C<=>T)
(G<=>T)
11.054926
1.000000
0.423704
0.036369
pi(A)
0.270127
0.261056
pi(C)
pi(G)
pi(T)
0.191077
0.293142
0.245654
0.179064
0.258431
0.301449
Bases freq.
The BA and ML analyses on DATASET 3 rendered wellresolved trees (50% majority-rule consensus tree (TL) =
36.167380—Fig. 2; and ML tree (TL) = 2.927921 in Online
Resource Fig. O5) for the phylogenetic reconstruction of generic groups (included in this study) within the family. With
the estimated marginal likelihood arithmetic mean between
BA runs in − 16,947.29, model parameters are summarized
in Table 2. On a partitioned alignment of 356 distinct patterns
for nrITS and 395 distinct patterns for nrLSU, the ML analysis
and applying GAMMA model parameters estimated up to the
accuracy of 0.1000000000 log likelihood units for the two
partitions, the final ML optimization likelihood was −
16,425.972776, and the parameters for DATASET 3 alignment are in Table 2. The tree ingroup (PP 1.0/BS 96) revealed
12 distinct generic representatives: /clade A—Marasmiellus s.
str. (PP 1.0/BS 57), /clade B—Pusillomyces (PP 1.0/BS 100),
/clade C—Connopus (PP 1.0/BS 100), /clade D—
Pallidocephalus (PP 1.0/BS 96), /clade E—Rhodocollybia
(PP 1.0/BS 66), /clade F—Lentinula (PP 1.0/BS 99), /clade
G—Gymnopus s. str. (PP 1.0/BS 88), /clade H—Gymnopus
sect. Perforantia (PP 1.0/BS 100), /clade I—Gymnopanella
(PP 1.0/BS 77), /clade J—Mycetinis (PP 1.0/BS 100), /clade
K—Omphalotus (PP 1.0/BS 100), and the lineage
Anthracophyllum archeri (Berk.) Pegler (one strain). The representatives of Omphalotus and Anthracophyllum form a weakly
supported clade (PP 0.87 / BS 50). /Clade B and /clade C are
sister with weak support (PP 0.96/BS 47). These clades tend to
group with /clade D, /clade E, and /clade F, but in an unsupported
major clade (PP 0.66/BS -). This major clade (B, C, D, E, and F)
is sister to clade A by an unsupported node (PP 0.76/BS 28).
/Clade G and /clade H are paraphyletic because of the strain
BKY026621 Marasmius sp.1 TFB3940,^ which without support
appears as sister to /clade G (PP 0.83/BS 57). Thus, there are two
unsupported major clades: (1) clades A, B, C, D, E, and F; (2)
clades G and H. /Clade I and /clade J branched individually. An
unsupported clade grouping /clade K and lineage L is the most
basal in the ingroup. The lineage named as Gymnopus contrarius
(Peck) Halling branched in an isolated position basal to the whole
family, and may represent a distinct genus too, but more information is needed to reach a conclusion. The tree generated from
the analyses on DATASET 2 (broad sampling of nrITS data) as
well as the parameters data are shown only in the Online
Resource material.
Comparing the combined nrITS and nrLSU tree (Fig. 2) with
the nrLSU tree (Fig. 1) and the nrITS tree (Online Resource Figs.
O1, O2), we observe coherence in the topologies considering that
the nrLSU tree and nrITS tree have broader sampling (more taxa
included), but limited resolution for the tree at various points. On
the other hand, the nrITS + nrLSU tree is better resolved due to
the combination of molecular data with high statistical support
for all generic representative clades, but various taxa present in
the DATASET 1 and 2 are absent in DATASET 3 because of the
lack of nrLSU and nrITS data of the correspondent strain. Most
clades and subclades found in nrITS + nrLSU tree can also be
found in the nrLSU tree and nrITS tree, showing consistency in
the topology.
Taxonomy
Pusillomyces J.S. Oliveira, gen. nov.
MycoBank MB 827357.
Etymology: Pusillus (latin) = small; myces = mushroom; it
refers to the small size of the marasmioid basidiomata.
Diagnose: Basidiomata marasmioid, thin, tiny. Pileus hemispheric to convex, or plane, sometimes slightly concave, center
plane to depressed, with or without papilla, smooth, or slightly
rugulose at the center, and striate-sulcate at the disc and margin,
surface finely tomentose, membranous to firmly coriaceous.
Hymenophore entirely smooth or with well-developed lamellae,
adnate to occasionally adpressed to a false collarium, distant,
whitish to pale cream. Stipe filiform, wiry, insititious, rising directly from the substrate or branching from rhizomorphs; chitinous, horny, pliant, hollow; strongly pigmented, mostly brown to
dark brown; glabrous or rarely finely pruinose, or even entirely
pubescent to hairy. Rhizomorphs present, glabrous to pubescent,
rare to abundant. Odor and taste not distinctive. Basidospores
Fig. 2 Bayesian 50% majority-rule consensus tree from the multilocus
(combined nrITS and nrLSU) analysis of DATASET 3 (TL, 35.696274;
−lnL, − 14,951.21). Support values at the nodes consist of PP ≥ 0.95 and
BS ≥ 70; unsupported nodes under PP 0.5 are collapsed. Thicker stems in
black represent highly supported nodes, and those in gray are moderately
to weakly supported nodes. Outgroup consists of members of the clade
Marasmiaceae (Fig. 1)
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0.4
719
TFB13939 Gymnopus confluens
LEBIN1178 Gymnopus confluens
TFB14072 Gymnopus confluens
TFB14389 Gymnopus confluens
TFB14409
Gymnopus confluens
1.0/100
BUR1 Gymnopus confluens
WTU394 Gymnopus confluens
WTU005 Gymnopus confluens
WTU514 Gymnopus confluens
TFB7219 Gymnopus confluens
TFB14075 Gymnopus confluens
100
MICHPK6820 Gymnopus confluens
MICHPK6943 Gymnopus confluens
CUH-AM083 Gymnopus confluens
TFB13744 Gymnopus confluens
TFB14114 Gymnopus confluens
TFB14132 Gymnopus confluens
TFB13754 Gymnopus confluens
1.0/88 TFB14115 Gymnopus confluens
LEBIN1212 Gymnopus confluens
LEBIN2294 Gymnopus confluens
LEBIN2357 Gymnopus confluens
0.96
ZJ0002XPS01 Gymnopus confluens
CUHAM089 Gymnopus menehune
1.0/100 AWW87 Gymnopus menehune
AWW15 Gymnopus menehune
0.98/73
CUHAM074 Gymnopus menehune
TFB11005 Gymnopus mesoamericanus
TFB13890 Gymnopus biformis
1.0/100 TFB14250 Gymnopus biformis
TFB14251 Gymnopus biformis
74
TFB13814 Gymnopus biformis
TENN68136 Gymnopus disjunctus
1.0/96
TFB13739 Marasmiellus vaillantii
TENN69123 Gymnopus eneficola
0.96/100 TENN69128 Gymnopus eneficola
TENN69127 Gymnopus eneficola
TENN69121 Gymnopus eneficola
1.0/100
TENN69122 Gymnopus eneficola
1.0/100
MICHPK6976 Gymnopus eneficola
1.0/95
MICHPK6975 Gymnopus eneficola
1.0/100 TFB14278 Gymnopus nonnullus
TFB14617 Marasmiellus sp.
Gymnopus nonnullus var. attenuatus
1.0/99 AWW05
AWW54 Gymnopus melanopus
1.0/98
CUHAM093 Gymnopus melanopus
TFB10494 Gymnopus sp.
AWW01 Gymnopus brunneigracilis
AWW112 Gymnopus gibbosus
AWW51 Gymnopus trogioides
TFB9121Gymnopus luxurians
1.0/100
TFB14290 Gymnopus pseudoluxurians
1.0/93
Gymnopus luxurians
FB10350 Gymnopus luxurians
1.0/100
CUHAM082 Gymnopus polygrammus
AWW10 Gymnopus aff. moseri
TFB14615 Gymnopus quercophilus
TFB14616 Gymnopus quercophilus
1.0/100
SFSU 25220 Gymnopus quercophilus
TFB14570 Gymnopus quercophilus
TFB13755 Marasmiellus ramealis
1.0/100 WRW05-1170 Gymnopus sp.
1.0/77
TFB14334 Gymnopus utriformis nom. prov.
TFB14228 Gymnopus aff. melanopus
1.0/100
TFB9889 Marasmiellus juniperinus
TFB10826 Marasmiellus juniperinus
1.0/100 TFB13743 Gymnopus peronatus
1.0
LEBIN1898 Gymnopus peronatus
1.0/100
LEBIN1364 Gymnopus peronatus
1.0 TFB12577
Gymnopus subnudus
WRW08462 Gymnopus subnudus
Gymnopus dichrous
94 TFB10015
TFB11601 Gymnopus dichrous
1.0/81
TFB10009 Gymnopus aff. dichrous
1.0/95
TFB14111 Gymnopus aff. dichrous
TFB14282 Gymnopus micromphaleoides
KFRI1321 Gymnopus funalis
KFRI1322 Gymnopus funalis
88 BRNM718813 Gymnopus funalis
BRNM718747 Gymnopus funalis
1.0/100 KFRI1848 Gymnopus funalis
BRNM747542 Gymnopus funalis
0.96/90 1.0/100 KFRI1863 Gymnopus funalis
KFRI1870 Gymnopus funalis
1.0 JO674 Pusillomyces manuripioides
100 JO1121 Pusillomyces manuripioides
BRNM714994 Gymnopus asetosus
1.0/100
1.0/98 BRNM718733 Gymnopus asetosus
BRNM718820 Gymnopus asetosus
1.0/100
BRNM714999 Gymnopus asetosus
0.97/94
BRNM715010 Gymnopus asetosus
0.96
BRNM714965 Gymnopus asetosus
1.0/100
KFRI1886 Gymnopus asetosus
KFRI1918 Gymnopus asetosus
TFB7498 Connopus acervatus
1.0/100 TFB13532
Connopus acervatus
1.0/100
FB12621 Connopus acervatus
TFB13579 Connopus acervatus
TFB13581 Connopus acervatus
1.0/100
0.99/70 SAT11 179 Marasmius pallidocephalus
TFB13933 Marasmius pallidocephalus
TFB5015 Marasmius pallidocephalus
1.0/73 TFB5698 Marasmius pallidocephalus
TFB5610 Marasmius pallidocephalus
BRNM718676 Gymnopus glabrocystidiatus
TFB14606 Micromphale brevipes (= Gymnopus nidus-avis)
TFB14607 Micromphale brevipes (= Gymnopus nidus-avis)
77
1.0/96
TFB14498 Marasmius pallidocephalus (= Gymnopus nidus-avis)
TFB9087 Micromphale brevipes (= Gymnopus nidus-avis)
DPL11763 Micromphale brevipes (= Gymnopus nidus-avis)
KFRI1935 Gymnopus glabrocystidiatus
1.0/95 LEBIN2526 Rhodocollybia butyracea f. asema
0.99/92 LEBIN1232 Rhodocollybia butyracea f. asema
1.0/97 TFB14368 Rhodocollybia butyracea
TFB14382 Rhodocollybia butyracea
TFB13006 Rhodocollybia butyracea
1.0
TFB14131 Rhodocollybia maculata
1.0/100 AFTOL540 Rhodocollybia maculata
1.0/100
TFB14317 Rhodocollybia maculata
TFB14253 Rhodocollybia maculata
TFB13989 Rhodocollybia maculata
1.0/100
DSH 92143 Lentinula lateritia
1.0/99
OE9 Lentinula edodes
1.0/99
TFB8682-2 Lentinula raphanica
TFB10292-6 Lentinula boryana
Clade A
Marasmiellus s. str.
Clade B
Pusillomyces
Clade C
Connopus
Clade D
Pallidocephalus
Clade E
Rhodocollybia
Clade F
Lentinula
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1.0/83
1.0/95
AWW116 Gymnopus bicolor
AWW126 Gymnopus sepiiconicus
AWW118 Gymnopus aurantiipes
AWW125 Gymnopus indoctoides
BCNSCMB4058 Gymnopus inusitatus
1.0 BCNSCMB4057 Gymnopus catalonicus
99 BCNSCMB4065 Gymnopus bisporus
BRNM737257 Gymnopus inusitatus var. cystidiatus
1.0/99 TFB13758 Gymnopus ocior
1.0/99
AFTOLID 559 Gymnopus dryophilus
TFB13781 Gymnopus aff. dryophilus
89 TFB13782 Gymnopus aff. dryophilus
1.0/98
1.0/74
1.0 TFB14333 Gymnopus spongiosus
100 TFB13975 Gymnopus spongiosus
AWW127 Gymnopus vitellinipes
1.0/81 1.0/95 BRNM714849 Gymnopus impudicus
1.0/84
JVG1130531 Gymnopus impudicus
1.0/100
TFB14110 Gymnopus barbipes
1.0/99
TFB14618 Gymnopus foetidus
TFB6520 Gymnopus iocephalus
87
VA12117 Gymnopus dysodes
JMCR143 Caripia montagnei
1.0/100
TFB13911 Gymnopus foetidus
1.0/100
TFB14340 Gymnopus foetidus
0.99/76
TFB14583 Gymnopus foetidus
BRNM747547 Gymnopus cremeostipitatus
1.0/99
TFB14489 Gymnopus neobrevipes
TFB14594 Gymnopus neobrevipes
1.0/100
TFB14599 Gymnopus neobrevipes
TFB4548 Gymnopus portoricensis
1.0/100
TFB4549 Gymnopus portoricensis
TFB4512 Gymnopus portoricensis
TFB11631 Gymnopus androsaceus
0.98
TENN F 69268 Gymnopus androsaceus
0.99/86
TFB5021 Gymnopus androsaceus
DED8813 Gymnopus adventitius nom. prov.
TFB5609 Gymnopus androsaceus
1.0/88
TFB9031 Gymnopus frigidomarginatus nom. prov.
TFB4975 Gymnopus novaeangliae nom. prov.
1.0/100 TFB11333 Gymnopus fusipes
1.0/95
TFB14558 Gymnopus fusipes
TFB2221 Gymnopus inflatotrama nom. prov.
TFB4919 Gymnopus inflatotrama nom. prov.
TFB4529 Gymnopus inflatotrama nom. prov.
TFB4930 Gymnopus inflatotrama nom. prov.
DED5097Gymnopus novomundi nom. prov.
TFB3940 Marasmius sp.1
1.0/98 TFB4550 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB4551 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB3642 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB7243 Gymnopus foliiphilus
DED5272 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB4928 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB8782 Gymnopus foliiphilus
0.98
0.99/98 TFB10364 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB14291 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB14422 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB14048 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB14063 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB9166 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB9167 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB13875 Gymnopus foliiphilus
TFB14332 Gymnopus foliiphilus
0.99/90
TFB13122 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
0.4
TFB13121 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
TFB14348 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
TFB14395 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
TFB13319 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
TFB14350 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
TFB14613 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
TFB14384 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
1.0/78
TFB14592 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
TFB10826 Gymnopus perforans
TFB4721 Gymnopus perforans
1.0/100 TFB7477 Gymnopus perforans
TFB4722 Gymnopus perforans
AV100918 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
1.0/90 TFB13319 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
UBC25212 Gymnopus sublaccatus
1.0/100
TFB14620 Gymnopus sequoiae
1.0/100
TFB14395 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
TFB14377 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
TFB13123 Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus
TFB14511 Gymnopus pinophilus
TFB13913 Gymnopus pinophilus
1.0/100 TFB14517 Gymnopus pinophilus
TFB5256 Gymnopus pinophilus
TFB5627 Gymnopus ponderosae
TFB14059 Gymnopus pinophilus
TFB14097 Gymnopus pinophilus
TFB7588 Gymnopus caulocystidiatus nom. prov.
1.0/99 TFB7572 Gymnopus caulocystidiatus nom prov.
TFB7148 Gymnopus caulocystidiatus nom. prov.
1.0
1.0/100 TFB7589 Gymnopus caulocystidiatus nom. prov.
TFB4033 Gymnopus austrobrevipes nom. prov.
1.0/77
TFB3591 Gymnopus austrobrevipes nom. prov.
TFB3585 Gymnopus austrobrevipes nom. prov.
SGO 163625 Gymnopanella nothofagi
1.0/100 DAOM 175251 Mycetinis salalis
TENN F 55408 Mycetinis copelandii
0.98/70
UPS F012968 Marasmius prasiosmus
1.0/95 TENN F 59615 Mycetinis scorodonius
1.0/93
0.96 1.0/100
TENN F 53474 Mycetinis scorodonius
TENN F 69200 Mycetinis opacus
1.0/100
TENN F 55630 Mycetinis alliaceus
TENN F 69243 Mycetinis alliaceus
1.0/100
AFTOLID 556 Mycetinis alliaceus
1.0/100
VT455 Omphalotus olivascens
AFTOLID 1718 Omphalotus olearius
AFTOLID 973 Anthracophyllum archeri
PBM 2711 Gymnopus contrarius
1.0/100
ATCC 42449 Campanella subdendrophora
MCA1689 Campanella sp.
1.0/98
CMRUB 2041 Moniliophthora perniciosa
1.0/96
MCA2500 Moniliophthora sp.
1.0/100
OKM 25450 Crinipellis zonata
1.0/100
MCA1527 Crinipellis sp.
AFTOLID 1505 Marasmius rotula
AFTOLID 1559 Marasmius oreades
1.0/99
93
Clade G
Gymnopus s. str.
Clade H
Gymnopus sect. Perforantia
(Paragymnopus gen. nov.)
Clade I
Gymnopanella
Clade J
Mycetinis
Clade K Omphalotus
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Table 2 Data from ML and BA
analyses of DATASET 3
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DATASET 3 alignment
Taxa
244
Characters
545 (ITS) + 955 (LSU)
Calculations from BA by partition
Alpha
ITS (means)
0.758406
Pinvar
0.302564
Substitution rates
Calculations from ML by partition
LSU (means)
0.190530
0.497144
Alpha
ITS (means)
0.356165
LSU (means)
0.200742
Pinvar
Substitution rates
(A<=>C)
0.070389
0.036804
(A<=>C)
1.900609
0.485606
(A<=>G)
(A<=>T)
0.390588
0.105534
0.207500
0.085793
(A<=>G)
(A<=>T)
11.363035
3.210914
4.003744
1.300596
(C<=>G)
0.043284
0.037125
(C<=>G)
1.243795
0.492606
(C<=>T)
0.339083
0.601554
(C<=>T)
9.601055
6.098430
(G<=>T)
Bases freq.
0.051122
0.031224
(G<=>T)
Bases freq.
1.000000
1.000000
pi(A)
0.236077
0.278227
pi(A)
0.235424
0.273905
pi(C)
pi(G)
pi(T)
0.190142
0.204093
0.369687
0.171529
0.283168
0.267077
pi(C)
pi(G)
pi(T)
0.199045
0.214724
0.350808
0.184005
0.292899
0.249191
obovoid to shortly oblong, ellipsoid, ellipsoid-fusoid, lacrymoid
to subclavate, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, inamyloid. Basidia
clavate, 2- to 4-sterigmate. Cheilocystidia not applicable (smooth
hymenophore) or when present, in the form of Siccus-type
broom cells. Pleurocystidia absent. Lamellar and pileus trama
irregular, inamyloid, hyphae smooth or incrusted. Pileipellis nongelatinized, non-hymeniform, a trichoderm of disorganized,
packed elements, composed of cylindrical, thin- to slightly
thick-walled, diverticulate, smooth or incrusted hyphae, mixed
with elements similar to Siccus-type broom cells, or Ramealesstructures. Stipitipellis and Stipe trama dextrinoid. Caulocystidia
absent or present, dextrinoid. Clamp connections absent.
Chemical reactions: In Melzer’s reagent, only the stipe
trama is dextrinoid; otherwise, inamyloid. No staining in alkaline solution (NH4OH or KOH).
Ecology: Saprotrophic or parasitic in plant (phytopathogen), epiphytic or in the forest litter, gregarious, on leafy or
woody substrate.
Distribution: Probably worldwide; to date only recorded
from the Neotropic (Tropical, Amazon forest, Brazil) and
Paleoarctic regions (Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forest,
Republic of Korea).
Type species: Pusillomyces manuripioides J.S. Oliveira.
Pusillomyces asetosus (Antonín, R. Ryoo & K.H. Ka) J.S.
Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 827358)
Gymnopus asetosus Antonín, R. Ryoo & K.H. Ka,
Mycological Progress 13: 704 (2014)
Pusillomyces funalis (Har. Takah.) J.S. Oliveira, comb.
nov. (MB 827359)
Marasmius funalis Har. Takah., Mycoscience 43 (4): 344
(2002)
Gymnopus funalis (Har. Takahashi) Antonín, R. Ryoo &
Shin, Mycological Progress 13: 710 (2014)
Notes: To see taxonomic and classification comments
on the evidence for the combination of G. asetosus and
G. funalis, and the establishment of Pusillomyces, refer
to Phylogeny and Morphology in the Discussion. A synoptic key comparing Pusillomyces with the other genera
of /letinuloid clade is provided in Online Resource
(Chart O1).
Pusillomyces manuripioides J.S. Oliveira, sp. nov.
(Figs. 3, 4, and 5)
Mycobank MB 827360
Barcode sequences (GenBank accession numbers):
nrITS – MK434210 and nrLSU – MK434211 from the
holotype J.J.S. Oliveira & L.S. Bento JO674; and nrITS
– MK434212 and nrLSU – MK434213 from the
paratype J.J.S. Oliveira & N.K. Ishikawa JO1121.
Etymology: The epithet is based on the strong similarity to
Manuripia bifida Singer, a monotypic genus. The name
Manuripia comes from Manuripi (Bolivia), the holotype locality of M. bifida.
Diagnose: Basidiomata manuripioid, tiny. Pileus 0.3–
1.8 mm diam., plano-convex to subinfundibuliform,
smooth, brown, chestnut brown to cream. Hymenophore
smooth, white to cream. Stipe 1–4 × 0.2–0.3 mm, central,
filiform, insititious, glabrous, dark brown, growing mostly
from rhizomorphs. Basidiospores 6–9 × 2.8–4.6 μm, usually ellipsoid, inamyloid. Pileus trama inamyloid, irregular,
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Fig. 3 Pusillomyces
manuripioides. a Branch of
Eugenia sp. with net of
rhizomorphs and infected parts
(JO1117). b, c Rhizomorphs
bearing basidiomata of
P. manuripioides (JO674—
holotype). d, e Rhizomorphs
strongly attached to dead foliar
face, some producing basidiomata
(JO674—holotype)
hyphae smooth or incrusted, clamp-connections absent.
Pileipellis a trichoderm of Rameales-structures.
Rhizomorphs like the stipe, some densely covered by
conidia. Epiphytic, forming abundant rhizomorphs in
hanging living and dead leaves and juvenile living
branches.
Pileus 0.3–1.8 mm diam., orbicular, plano-convex,
plane, to plano-infundibuliform or subinfundibuliform, center with a shallow papilla especially when young, sometimes depressed, or papilla usually receding in old or larger pileus, disc and margin smooth, margin straight to
slightly uplifted, edge entire; surface glabrous, dry, dull,
papyraceous or subvelutinous; membranous at the margin,
a little thicker, tough or coriaceous at the disc towards the
center, context thin (< 1 mm), white to whitish cream;
with brown to dark brown (N60Y50M30 to N90Y60M40)
center or papilla, disc chestnut brown (N50Y60M30) becoming yellowish brown or buff brown (N40Y50M30) towards the margin, or paller (N20Y30–40M20), becoming
cream (N 00 Y 10 M 00 ) when very fresh. Hymenophore
smooth (lamellae absent), white to pale cream
(N00Y10M00), papyraceous, dull, dry. Stipe 1–4 × 0.2–
0.3 mm, central, filiform, very thin, equal, cylindrical,
insititious, chitinous, hollow, glabrous, smooth, opaque, dark
chestnut brown (N90Y70M30) or very dark brown (N99Y50M30),
growing directly from the substrate or more frequently arising
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Fig. 4 Pusillomyces manuripioides (JO674—holotype): illustration of macroscopic structures of basidiomata and rhizomorphs, habit and substrate.
Scale bar 1 cm
from abundant, very elongate, hair-like rhizomorphs,
concolorous with the stipes, part glabrous, part densely pubescent
or even hirsute, resembling those found in Manuripia bifida, with
dark brown to black pubescence. Basidiospores (Fig. 5a) 6–
9 × (2.2)2.8–4.6(5) μm (xrm = 6.9–7.4 × 2.8–3.6 μm, xmm = 7.3
(± 0.3) × 3.3 (± 0.4) μm, Qrm = 2–3.3, Qmm = 2.6 (± 0.7), n = 30,
s = 3), obovoid, rarely shortly oblong, usually ellipsoid to
subellipsoid, or amygdaliform, lacrymoid to subclavate, smooth,
thin-walled, hyaline, inamyloid. Basidia (Fig. 5b) 20–27.5 × 5–
7 μm, clavate, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, inamyloid, 2–4 sterigmata. Basidioles (Fig. 5c) 17–26.8 × 3.7–6.4 μm, clavate to
broadly clavate, some with tapered apex, smooth, hyaline, thinwalled, inamyloid. Hymenial cystidia absent. Pileus trama
inamyloid, irregular, non-gelatinized, packed, but also lacunose
in some parts, especially at the central part of the context, forming
a gradient, pale brownish near the pileipellis, fading to more
hyaline near the hymenial layer, hyphae interwoven, cylindrical,
2–8.2 μm diam., regular in outline, branched, smooth, or more
frequently incrusted (irregularly ornamented) towards the
pileipellis (Fig. 5e), hyaline or some more opaque (wall thickness), thin- to more thick-walled next to the pileipellis, clamp
connections absent. Pileipellis non-hymeniform, non-gelatinized,
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Fig. 5 Pusillomyces manuripioides (JO674—holotype): microscopic structures. a Basidiospores. b Basidia. c Basidioles. d Diverticulate elements of the
pileipellis. e Incrusted hyphae of the pileipellis to the upper layer of the pileus trama. Scale bar a–e 10 μm
formed by a layer of disorganized elements or trichoderm, pale
chestnut brown in 3% KOH with abundant and dominant
Rameales-structures (Fig. 5d), some in transition to irregular
Siccus- or Rotalis-type cells (Fig. 4d), usually interconnected
with smooth or incrusted hyphae of the pileus trama (Fig. 4e),
main body 8.8–29 × 3.3–10.5(− 21) μm, hyphoid, branched,
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lobed or irregular, but clavate to cylindrical in the Siccus-/Rotalistype cells, hyaline when isolated, smooth, thin-walled,
inamyloid; diverticula apical or divergent to the laterals, generally
short, 0.7–2.2 × 0.6–1.2 μm, vesiculose, verruciform, to shortly
digitiform, sometimes branched, hyaline, solid, with obtuse
and rounded apex. Stipe trama mostly inamyloid, or cortical
hyphae apparently dextrinoid (at least in the stipe apex) or
only orangish brown in Melzer’s reagent due to pigmentation,
parallel, not compact, hyphae easily disassociating, then
chestnut brown, losing pigmentation towards the inner trama,
cylindrical, 3–8.4 μm diam., generally regular in outline, septate, thick-walled, smooth or with granular incrustations,
sometimes very prominent looking like diverticula, clamp
connections absent; internal hyphae 2.5–7.4 μm diam., with
thinner walls, hyaline, usually smooth, sometimes rough,
clamp-connections absent. Stipitipellis without elements or
vesture on the glabrous stipes and rhizomorphs.
Rhizomorphs corresponding to the stipe trama for the glabrous
segments in micromorphology, but some pubescent segments
densely covered by elongate, cylindrical to fusoid (tapered at
the apex) conidia (Fig. 6), 106–237.2 × 7.4–13.2 μm diam.,
presenting an apparent apical orifice, body with numerous
septa, each short segment slightly inflated, thick-walled (including septa), dark brown, very distinct from the hyphae of
Fig. 6 Pusillomyces
manuripioides (JO674—
holotype): Conidiophore and
conidia from the cortex of the
pubescent segments of the
rhizomorphs. Scale bar 10 μm
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the trama, non-fragmentary, but breaking at septal point when
compressed, interconnected with one another at the base via
connecting, thinner, irregular, sometimes branched, repent,
similar segments, the whole structure forming the conidiophores which are immersed in the trama, but do not appear
to have originated from the hyphae, reaction in Melzer’s reagent not distinctive due to the dark pigmentation.
Habit and Substrate: Manuripioid (Fig. 3b, c) to
gloiocephaloid (those basidiomata growing on the substrate—Fig. 3d, e), tiny, gregarious, epiphytic (about 1.5 m
above the ground upward), forming abundant rhizomorphs
in hanging living and dead leaves, attaching also on twigs,
branches and limbs, specifically or frequently of Eugenia cf.
subterminalis DC (Myrtaceae), in Bcampinarana^, sometimes
in transition to Bterra-firme^, Amazon Forest.
Specimens examined: Brazil, Amazonas, Manaus, Reserva
Biológica de Campina, hanging branches with both living and
dead leaves of Eugenia cf. subterminalis and fallen trapped
leaves from the canopy of multiple dicot tree species, 17. 11.
2016, J.J.S. Oliveira & L.S. Bento JO674, holotypus (INPA
280704!); hanging branches with both living and dead leaves
of Eugenia cf. subterminalis and fallen trapped leaves from the
canopy of multiple dicot tree species, 28. 11. 2017, J.J.S.
Oliveira & G.S. Sarkis JO950 (INPA 280705!); hanging
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branches with with both living and dead leaves of Eugenia cf.
subterminalis and fallen trapped leaves from the canopy of
multiple dicot tree species, 15. 2. 2018, J.J.S. Oliveira & G.S.
Sarkis JO986 (INPA 280706!); hanging branches with both
living and dead leaves of Eugenia cf. subterminalis and fallen
trapped leaves from the canopy of multiple dicot tree species,
15. 2. 2018, J.J.S. Oliveira & G.S. Sarkis JO987 (INPA
280707!), 23. 10. 2018, J.J.S. Oliveira & N.K. Ishikawa
JO1117 (INPA 282046!), J.J.S. Oliveira & N.K. Ishikawa
JO1118 (INPA 282047!); J.J.S. Oliveira & N.K. Ishikawa
JO1119 (INPA 282048!), J.J.S. Oliveira & N.K. Ishikawa
JO1120 (INPA 282049!), J.J.S. Oliveira & N.K. Ishikawa
JO1121 (INPA 282050!), J.J.S. Oliveira & N.K. Ishikawa
JO1122 (INPA 282051!), J.J.S. Oliveira & N.K. Ishikawa
JO1123 (INPA 282052!), J.J.S. Oliveira & N.K. Ishikawa
JO1124 (INPA 282053!).
Discussion
Phylogeny
We based the analysis of DATASET 1 on the Marasmioid Clade
depicted in Matheny et al. (2006), including representatives of
the Tricholomatoid Clade (Matheny et al. 2006) as the outgroup.
In the present analysis, the /mycenaceae subclade grouped within
the outgroup, which does not follow the results in Dentinger et al.
(2016). The analysis of DATASET 1 confirmed that, among all
families and undefined groups within the Marasmioid Clade or
suborder Marasmiineae represented by the major clades in the
nrLSU tree (Fig. 1), P. manuripioides belongs to Omphalotaceae
since it groups with the representatives of the family in the
Omphalotaceae clade. This clade is weakly supported if
Gymnopus contrarius is considered in the family; but
disregarding this species, the clade is strongly supported (see
Online Resource material). In the same tree (see again the
Online Resource material), it is already possible to observe that
P. manuripioides is part of a very distinct lineage and, therefore a
representative of a different genus along with Gymnopus
asetosus and G. funalis.
In the tree reconstructed from the analysis of the combined
nrITS and nrLSU data—DATASET 3 (Fig. 2), the ingroup
consisted only of representatives of the Omphalotaceae while
the ou tg roup is comp osed of rep resen ta tives of
the Marasmiaceae. Once again, P. manuripioides branched within the very distinct and unique /clade B (Pusillomyces). Both
trees (Figs. 1 and 2) are strong evidence that P. manuripioides,
G. asetosus, and G. funalis do represent a new genus in the
family.
Similar to the analysis of the DATASET 3, we also conducted
an analysis including only nrITS data with a very large sampling
of members of the Omphalotaceae forming the ingroup, and
members of the Marasmiaceae as the outgroup. Based on the
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trees, it is possible to observe the phylogenetic placement of taxa
of the Omphalotaceae in clades that can be correlated to those
clades depicted in the nrITS + nrLSU tree (Fig. 2), but such taxa
are absent in this multilocus analysis because of the lack of
nrLSU data from the same collection. This can restrict and broaden new circumscriptions for genera based on the present phylogeny, strengthening, or redefining boundaries for the groups.
Moreover, the resulting nrITS tree (Online Resource Fig. O3)
also revealed that P. manuripioides is closely related to
G. asetosus and G. funalis, grouping in a strongly supported
subclade. This consistently indicates that G. asetosus and
G. funalis are congeneric with P. manuripioides, despite all the
remarkable morphological divergence between the former two
and the latter. We discuss further this relationship in the
BMorphology^ section (next part of this discussion).
The combined nrITS and nrLSU data tree (Fig. 2) in
the present study also brought light to the understanding
of the Omphalotaceae family at the genus level.
Gymnopus and Marasmiellus are polyphyletic and have
been considered artificial groups in previous studies
such as Moncalvo et al. (2002), Mata et al. (2004a,
2006), Wilson and Desjardin (2005), Hughes et al.
(2010), and Petersen and Hughes (2016, 2017). In our
analyses, however, Gymnopus and Marasmiellus appear
as monophyletic groups corresponding to /clade G and
/clade A, respectively. This agrees with the findings of
Wilson and Desjardin (2005), who depicted separate
clades assigned for these genera (clade B or
/marasmiellus and clade D or /gymnopus in their study)
and did not accept Marasmiellus as a synonym of
Gymnopus. Similar distinct clades can also be found in
Petersen and Hughes (2016, 2017) and Sandoval-Leiva
et al. (2016). The clades depicted in the tree are
discussed in detail below:
/Clade A (Marasmiellus s. str.): This clade is strongly supported and contains Marasmiellus juniperinus, type species of
Marasmiellus along with M. ramealis (Bull.) Singer and
M. vaillanti (Pers.) Singer, and all members of Gymnopus sect.
Vestipedes included in the analysis. This is one of three distinct
and unrelated lineages grouping species of Gymnopus and
corresponds to the statistically unsupported clade B or
/marasmiellus in Wilson and Desjardin (2005). These authors,
while discussing the phylogenetic affiliation between
M. juniperinus and Gymnopus sect. Vestipedes, argued that
they share characteristics such as the production of basidiomes
with insititious to subinsititious stipe, acyanophilous,
inamyloid, depigmented (and hyaline) basidiospores, and a
pileipellis which is a cutis of radially oriented cylindrical hyphae that are non-diverticulate or weakly diverticulate, typically roughened and vestured with annular to zebroid, brownish pigmented incrustations. They further indicated that the
pileipellis does not have well-developed Rameales structures,
but rather, that it is composed of strongly diverticulate hyphae
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as in M. ramealis and as in possibly most Marasmiellus spp.
In the present paper, we found M. ramealis present in the same
clade of M. juniperinus and members of Gymnopus sect.
Vestipedes, and thus, the later advocated pattern is not consistent. Also, the need to resurrect Collybiopsis, considering the
discussion presented in Wilson and Desjardin (2005), may be
dismissed. Thus, Marasmiellus is monophyletic if the genus is
restricted based on this clade and a redefinition of the traditional genus is provided in the following section.
/Clade B (Pusillomyces): Pusillomyces manuripioides
grouped with G. asetosus and G. funalis, forming the distinct
and highly supported clade B. This clade represents the new
genus Pusillomyces formally described along with the new
species in this paper. Morphological and ecological characteristics shared by these taxa are discussed in the next sections.
Also, in /Clade B, G. asetosus seems to be rather three different species while G. funalis seems to be two and, then, the
involved strains should be revised.
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obtained from the same geographic region—the US Gulf Coast.
Petersen and Hughes (2017) suggest that Marasmius
pallidocephalus probably forms a monotypic genus while our
results point to the inclusion of at least two additional species:
G. glabrocystidiatus and BMicromphale brevipes^ (pro parte).
Considering this later, a just published paper (César et al. 2018)
has revealed that the strains TFB14606, TFB14607, TFB14498,
TFB9087, DPL11763, named as BMicromphale brevipes^ are
rather conspecific with the new species Gymnopus nidus-avis
César, Bandala & Montoya. We agree with their conclusion,
although this very recently proposed new species is not
Gymnopus s. str. according to the present study, but also part of
/Clade D (Pallidocephalus). This clade deserves to be more carefully studied to formalize the establishment of another genus in
Omphalotaceae. A synoptic key comparing members of this
clade with the genera of /letinuloid clade is provided in Online
Resource (Chart O1).
/Clade E (Rhodocollybia): This highly supported
clade groups all species of Rhodocollybia present in this
analysis, including the type species R. maculata (Alb. &
Schwein.) Singer. The genus is monophyletic in this
study and agrees with Wilson and Desjardin (2005)
and Mata et al. (2006) but differs from Hughes et al.
(2010) and Sandoval-Leiva et al. (2016); however, additional taxa of the genus should be included in future
analyses. For more information about Rhodocollybia see
Mata et al. (2004b). A synoptic key comparing
Rhodocollybia with the other genera of /letinuloid clade
is provided in Online Resource (Chart O1).
/Clade C (Connopus): This highly supported clade is
composed of six specimens of Connopus acervatus (Fr.)
R.H. Petersen, and recently erected as the monotypic genus
Connopus R.H. Petersen in Hughes et al. (2010). Connopus
is sister to Pusillomyces gen. nov., but without statistical
support. The genus is mainly characterized by producing
connate, collybioid or mycenoid basiomata, usually growing
in deep polytrichaceous moss juxtaposed to conifer trunks or
stumps in temperate to cool forests; hemispheric to convex,
hygrophanous, smooth pileus; free to seceding, abundant,
close lamellae; central, cylindrical, fistulose, apically glabrous then pruinose stipe, with tomentose base; small, ellipsoid to cylindrical, hyaline, thin-walled, inamyloid basidiospores; lacking pleurocystidia; absent or occasional, slender
lecythiform cheilocystidia; conspicually clamped hyphae in
the tramae, and a pileipellis consisting of a lax trichoderm,
with occasional, weakly banded, erect terminal cells
(Hughes et al. 2010). A synoptic key comparing Connopus
with the other genera of /letinuloid clade is provided in
Online Resource (Chart O1).
/Clade F (Lentinula): This is a strongly supported clade
encompassing all Lentinula Earle species included in the analysis: L. lateritia (Berk.) Pegler, L. edodes (Berk.) Pegler,
L. raphanica (Murrill) Mata & R.H. Petersen and L. boryana
(Berk. & Mont.) Pegler. Based on this analysis, the genus is
monophyletic. For further information about the genus
Lentinula, see Pegler (1983) and Mata et al. (2001). A synoptic
key comparing Lentinula with the other genera of /letinuloid
clade is provided in Online Resource (Chart O1).
/Clade D (Pallidocephalus): This strongly supported clade
may correspond to the clade B/austrobrevipes and
/pallidocephalus^ in Petersen and Hughes (2016, 2017).
However, the clade contains Gymnopus pallidocephalus comb.
prov. (officially, Marasmius pallidocephalus Gilliam),
Gymnopus glabrocystidiatus Antonín, R. Ryoo & K.H. Ka and
strains named as BMicromphale brevipes^ (DPL11763,
TFB9087, TFB14606, TFB14607, TFB14498). A second lineage previously determined as Micromphale brevipes (Berk. &
Ravenel) Singer appears again in /clade F, recently proposed as
Gymnopus neobrevipes Petersen (Petersen and Hughes 2019).
Collections of both BMicromphale brevipes^ lineages were all
/Clade G (Gymnopus s. str.): This strongly supported clade
is composed of Gymnopus fusipes, the type species of the
genus and the only member of Gymnopus sect. Gymnopus,
and members of Gymnopus sect. Androsacei, sect. Impudicae,
and sect. Levipedes. In this clade, Gymnopus s. str. is represented as a monophyletic and less inclusive genus, corresponding to the statistical supported clade D or /gymnopus
(excluding Micromphale peforans branch) in Wilson and
Desjardin (2005). These authors disagreed with the more inclusive genus suggested in Mata et al. (2004a). Mata et al.
(2006) maintained a broad view of Gymnopus corresponding
to a major clade grouping the clades A–N in their tree. In the
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trees provided by Hughes et al. (2010) that focused on the
establishment of Connopus, their ITS tree shows Gymnopus
as a single monophyletic clade (but not including G. fusipes
nor G. androsaceus, and members of Gymnopus sect.
Levipedes) while the LSU tree presents multiple unrelated
clades bearing members of Gymnopus (including G. fusipes,
G. androsaceus, and members of Gymnopus sect. Levipedes).
Sandoval-Leiva et al. (2016) provided a tree based on
concatenated ITS–5’-28S, but via neighbor-joining method
and values of support via Bayesian and BioNJ analyses focused in the establishment of the new genus Gymnopanella
and presented monophyletic, strongly supported clades
B/marasmiellus^ and BGymnopus, including Setulipes,^ unrelated in the tree, where the former is sister to BRhodocollybia,
including Connopus^ and the latter is sister to Gymnopanella.
Similar results are found in Petersen and Hughes (2016). In
the present study, the concept of less inclusive Gymnopus (s.
str.) as defended by Wilson and Desjardin (2005) is strongly
supported, and also observed in Sandoval-Leiva et al. (2016)
and corresponds to clades A–C in Mata et al. (2006). In the
concatenated nrITS + nrLSU tree (Fig. 2), clade G is distinctly
resolved and strongly supported, and includes G. fusipes and
members of Gymnopus sect. Levipedes, Impudicae and
Androsacei. Wilson and Desjardin (2005) discussed that
G. fusipes and members of Gymnopus sect. Levipedes share
a pileipellis composed of relatively short, broad, branched,
non-diverticulate hyphae forming a Dryophila-structure based
on Halling (1983) and Antonín and Noordeloos (1997), but
the type species of the genus only differs in developing a
rooted stipe and pale pinkish or ochraceous spore print.
However, based on Wilson and Desjardin (2005), species of
Micromphale and those of the old Setulipes are quite distinct
from members Gymnopus sect. Levipedes and G. fusipes, because the first two groups produce small, marcescent
basidiomata with wiry and insititious stipes, usually accompanied by black wiry rhizomorphs and pileipellis with hyphae
which are non-diverticulate and (a) gelatinized and encrusted
with a brown pigment (Micromphale) or (b) diverticulateknobby and usually non-gelatinized (Setulipes). Also, in
Wilson and Desjardin (2005), Micromphale perforans
branched as sister to the clade D and without statistical support. Although being included in /gymnopus in the same
study, their results regarding M. perforans are clarified as part
of a separate clade corresponding to Gymnopus sect.
Perforantia (Singer) R.H. Petersen, resulting from the combination of Micromphale sect. Perforantia Singer in Gymnopus
by Petersen and Hughes (2016). Our results also show a similar separate clade (clade H in the present study), but instead,
support the establishment of a new genus Paragymnopus. The
clade also bears some informal taxa that need to be confirmed.
The strains TFB14489, TFB14594, and TFB14599 represent
the species Micromphale brevipes (Berk. & Ravenel) Singer
(≡ Marasmius brevipes Berk. & Ravenel), according to
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Petersen and Hughes (2019), species now belonging to
Gymnopus. César et al. (2018) proposed Marasmius brevipes
to be a synonym of Marasmius westii Murrill. This proposal
was rejected by Petersen and Hughes (2019), which provided
a new name to the species, Gymnopus neobrevipes R.H.
Petersen, since there is already Gymnopus brevipes (Bull.)
Gray [now Melanoleuca brevipes (Bull.) Pat.].
/Clade H (Gymnopus sect. Perforantia): This clade is
composed of Gymnopus foliiphilus R.H. Petersen,
G. sublaccatus R.H. Petersen, G. sequoiae (Desjardin)
R.H. Petersen, G. perforans (Hoffm.) Antonín &
Noordel., G. pinophilus R.H. Petersen and G. ponderosae
R.H. Petersen. The first evidence of this lineage is found in
Wilson and Desjardin (2005), but was further explored in
Petersen and Hughes (2016) (see discussion in the previous
clade). According to Petersen and Hughes (2016), the species in this clade form Gymnopus sect. Perforantia and are
morphologically characterized by: (1) pileus and lamellar
tramae as well as stipe medullary hyphae and pileipellis
embedded in slime matrix; (2) pileipellis of two kinds—
(i) a layer of repent, incrusted hyphae, conspicuously
clamped, usually with thickened walls (through gelatinization) and embedded in slime matrix, or (ii) well-developed
Rameales structure; (3) cheilocystidia generally absent, if
present either clavate to utriform or like Siccus-type broom
cells; (4) stipe often thread-like (than 1 mm) but usually up
to 40 mm long, and often a high ratio of the pileus breadth
to stipe length; (5) stipitipellis often with cellular differentiation (excepting G. glabrosipes R.H. Petersen), many
times minutely barbed under a 30× lens; 6) always black,
branched or unbranched rhizomorphs almost present in all
cases, from 2 to 40 × 0.2–0.7 mm; (7) basidiospores not
significantly differing in dimension; (8) basidiomata found
on dead conifer needles or rotting deciduous leafy debris,
more or less host-specific; (9) fusiform pleurocystidia consistently present, with slight differences at the summit; and
(10) clamp connections found in all taxa. More morphological characteristics assigned to the section are detailed
in Petersen and Hughes (2016). The stipe in this section is
mostly insititious but can also be subinsititious or sometimes non-insititious. Petersen and Hughes (2016) recovered a tree based on nrLSU where the clade assigned to
Gymnopus sect. Perforantia is sister to /gymnopus, but
with low support (ML BS 44). In the tree from our analysis
based on concatenated nrITS and nrLSU data, clade H
(Gymnopus sect. Perforantia) appears paraphyletic relative
to clade G (Gymnopus s. str.), considering that the taxon
labeled BKY026621 Marasmius sp.1 TFB3940^ is a distinct lineage sister to clade G (then, clade H is sister to
Bclade G + ‘TFB3940 Marasmius sp.1’^ without statistical
support). Thus, we propose the establishment of a new
genus, Paragymnopus, instead of recognizing this clade
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at a lower rank, Gymnopus sect Perforatia (see clade G
above).
Mycetinis with the other genera of /letinuloid clade is provided in Online Resource (Chart O1).
/Clade I (Gymnopanella): Clade I is formed by
Gymnopanella nothofagi Sandoval-Leiva, J.V. McDonald &
Thorn, plus strains of informal taxa named Gymnopus
caulocystidiatus nom. prov. and G. austrobrevipes nom. prov.
in Petersen and Hughes (2016). Unfortunately, a morphological
comparison is not possible in order to classify these informal taxa
in Gymnopanella, since no anatomical data are provided to date.
But according to our tree, we suggest that Gymnopus
caulocystidiatus nom. prov. and G. austrobrevipes nom. prov.
are better placed in Gymnopanella. This genus is mainly characterized by being saprotrophic, producing campanelloid
basidiomata that are flabelliform, convex, have a gelatinous pileus; a reticulate-lamellate hymenophore; and a lateral, short,
glabrous stipe. Basidiospores are broad ellipsoid to ovate, hyaline, thin-walled, non-amyloid; subhymenium is ramose; gelatinous, dense trama, composed of subparallel to tangled hyphae,
with fine ring-like incrustation; and the pileipellis is a cutis of
cylindrical, thick-walled hyphae, seldom branched, coarsely externally incrusted with deposits, some hyphae forming fascicles
(Sandoval-Leiva et al. 2016). A synoptic key comparing
Gymnopanella with the other genera of /letinuloid clade is provided in Online Resource (Chart O1).
/Clade K (Omphalotus): Clade K groups together
Omphalotus olearius (DC.) Singer (type species) and
O. olivascens H.E. Bigelow, O.K. Mill. & Thiers and represents
the genus (type of Omphalotaceae) in the analysis. Omphalotus
appears as sister to Anthracophyllum Ces. (/Lineage L), represented by A. acheri (Berk.) Pegler, but this relationship is
unsupported.
/Clade J (Mycetinis): This strongly supported clade represents the genus Mycetinis Earle, grouping M. alliaceus (Jacq.)
Earle (type species of the genus), M. copelandii (Peck) A.W.
Wilson & Desjardin, M. opacus (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) A.W.
Wilson & Desjardin, M. prasiosmus (Fr.) R.H. Petersen,
M. salali s (Desjardin & Redhead) Redhead and
M. scorodonius (Fr.) A.W. Wilson & Desjardin. The genus
was resurrected in Wilson and Desjardin (2005) based on
clade F in the tree shown in their study. Species of this genus
were previously included in Marasmius sect. Alliacei. Based
on the same study, Mycetinis species share characteristics
such as sub- to non-insititious stipe; inamyloid, acyanophilic,
white or pale cream spore print, inamyloid trama; and a
hymeniform pileipellis made up of smooth, clavate to lobed
elements. However, M. opacus may have Rameales-type
structures in the pileipellis at the pileus margin when fully
mature along with the usual clavate to lobed, often thickwalled cells (Desjardin et al. 1993) and an insititious stipe
accompanied by abundant rhizomorphs (Desjardin et al.
1993; Wilson and Desjardin 2005) and was therefore, previously considered as a Marasmiellus species. Interestingly,
many taxa in this clade have basidiomata mimicking garlic
or cabbage odor and flavor, but the same characteristic can be
found in Gymnopus foetidus, G. perforans, G. iocephalus
(Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Halling, G. polyphyllus (Peck)
Halling and several species of the Androsacei group
(Wilson and Desjardin 2005). A synoptic key comparing
Morphology
Pusillomyces manuripioides is very similar to Manuripia
bifida in the macromorphology (Singer 1960, 1976,
1986). In the field, the specimens were immediately
associated with the only species of Manuripia on account of the very small basidiomata, an orbicular,
smooth pileus with smooth hymenophore, and a filiform, dark-colored, insititious stipe growing directly
from abundant, both glabrous or densely pubescent
rhizomorphs (Fig. 3a–c). Microscopically (Fig. 5), the
new species is also like M. bifida (Singer 1960, 1976)
in having ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid basidiospores, with smaller but still compatible dimensions (6–
9 × 2.8–4.6 μm vs 8–9.7 × 3.8–4.8 μm), the absence of
cystidia in the hymenium, and by the inamyloid pileus
trama while the stipe/rhizomorphs trama can be
inamyloid or scarcely dextrinoid.
However, P. manuripioides differs strikingly from M. bifida in
having a non-hymeniform pileipellis composed of Rameales
structures, with some Siccus-type broom cells, and also abundant
incrusted hyphae in the upper to the mid-trama of the pileus,
gradually disappearing near the hymenial layer. On the other
hand, M. bifida has a hymeniform to subhymeniform pileipellis
composed of balloon-shaped or vesiculose-clavate Rotalis-type
broom cells and no incrusted hyphae in the pileus trama (Singer
1976). The rhizomorphs in P. manuripioides, when pubescent
(Fig. 3c), are covered by elongate, dark-brown, multiseptated,
smooth conidia on multiple conidiophores (Fig. 6) growing
along the cortical trama of the stipe. According to Singer
(1976), the rhizomorphs of M. bifida are covered by setoid,
thick-walled, fuliginous to fuliginous-chestnut hairs (Singer
1960), clearly different from the elements found in the cortical
layer of the rhizomorphs in P. manuripioides. Singer (1976) also
described the rhizomorphs in M. bifida as thicker than the stipe
whereas this distinction is absent or not clear in P. manuripioides.
The two species also differ in the kind of substrate/habitat,
strongly suggesting different niches (see the next section).
Anatomically, the pileipellis arrangement and elements of
P. manuripioides are compatible with species of Gymnopus sect.
Androsacei (Mata et al. 2004a; Wilson and Desjardin 2005),
previously Marasmius sect. Androsacei. On the other hand, the
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arrangement and elements of the pileipellis in M. bifida are very
similar to the pileipellis of members of Marasmius sect.
Marasmius subsect. Marasmius (Singer 1976). In the phylogenetic discussion in the present paper, P. manuripioides is confirmed as a member of Omphalotaceae though this lineage does
not branch close to G. androsaceus. If the hypothesis that
M. bifida is truly a member of Marasmiaceae, the present study
suggests that although P. manuripioides and M. bifida are strongly similar macroscopically and in some microscopic characteristics, the resemblance possibly represents a case of convergence.
The inclusion of M. bifida in future analyses is important to have
a final conclusion.
In the BPhylogeny^ section, P. manuripioides (JO674
and JO1121) represents a distinct, new genus and that
G. asetosus and G. funalis (Antonín et al. 2014) are congeneric. Pusillomyces manuripioides strongly differs from
these two species in producing an even smaller basidioma
with a smooth, discoid, up to 1.8 mm diam. pileus, a
completely smooth hymenophore, a short and very thin,
wiry stipe mostly arising from abundant, hair-like
rhizomorphs or directly from the substrate, and the absence of cheilocystidia. In spite of often having some
pubescent rhizomorphs, P. manuripioides is devoid of true
caulocystidia, instead, elongate, dark brown, multiseptated
conidia and conidiophores penetrating the cortical layer.
Otherwise, both stipe and rhizomorphs are glabrous, which
is similar to G. asetosus (Antonín et al. 2014). However,
these three species share ellipsoid basidiospores, the absence of pleurocystidia, the arrangement and the elements
of the pileus trama and the pileipellis, and the stipe trama
and stipitipellis (excepting the caulocystidia in G. funalis)
(Antonín et al. 2014).
Below, a protologue is provided for Paragymnopus gen.
nov. according to the clade H (Fig. 2), and Gymnopus (s.
str.) and Marasmiellus (s. str.) are redefined based on clade
G and clade A (Fig. 2) respectively, with correspondent combinations.
Paragymnopus J.S. Oliveira, gen. nov.
MycoBank MB 827363.
Micromphale sect. Perforantia Singer, Sydowia 2: 32
(1948)
Gymnopus sect. Perforantia (Singer) R.H. Petersen,
MycoKey 18: 8 (2016)
Etymology: It refers to the phylogenetic relationship of this
group with Gymnopus s. str.
Diagnose: Basidiomata marasmioid, small, thin. Pileus
convex to plano-convex, occasionally slightly umbonate, sulcate-striate. Lamellae adnate, adnexed to decurrent, sometimes collariate to pseudocollariate, pallid or off-white. Stipe
often up to 40 mm long, ratio of pileus breadth to stipe length
often large (see G. pinophilus), central, cylindrical, thin, usually less than 1 mm, insititious, usually vestured (excepting
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G. glabrosipes), often minutely barbed under the × 10 lens,
apex pale brown, then darker, dark sooty brown to nearly
black towards the base. Rhizomorphs usually present, black,
thin, filiform, branched or unbranched. Basidiospores obovoid, ellipsoid, amygdaliform, hyaline, smooth, thin-walled,
non-amyloid. Pleurocystidia consistently present, fusiform,
somewhat apically versiform. Cheilocystidia often absent; if
present, either clavate to utriform or similar to Siccus-type
broom cell. Pileus and lamellar tramae irregular, usually
loosely interwoven, with hyphae embedded in a slime matrix.
Pileipellis in the form of a gelatinized layer of repent,
incrusted hyphae, often thick-walled, conspicuously clamped
and embedded in a slime matrix, or as a well-developed
Rameales-structure. Stipe medullary with hyphae embedded
in slime matrix. Clamp connections present in all tissues.
Chemical reactions: In Melzer’s reagent, dextrinoid only in
the stipe cortical trama and caulocystidia of some species;
otherwise, all tissues inamyloid. No part staining in alkaline
solution (NH4OH or KOH).
Ecology: Seemingly host-specific, saprophytic, on dead
conifer needles or rotting deciduous leafy debris.
Type species: Paragymnopus perforans (Hoffm.) J.S.
Oliveira (see new combination below).
Delimitation: According to Petersen and Hughes (2016),
Gymnopus sect. Perforantia (herein as Paragymnopus) may
be difficult to separate from Gymnopus sect. Androsacei.
Basidiomata of some species in this latter produce a thin slime
matrix in the basidiomata, a characteristic traditionally found
in Micromphale sect. Perforantia, the genus/section where
G. perforans belonged before being combined in Gymnopus
sect. Perforantia (Petersen and Hughes 2016). This characteristic is also relevant for all species in Gymnopus sect.
Perforantia, therefore, also in Paragymnopus. However,
Gymnopus sect. Androsacei has a pileipellis consisting of a
trichoderm (hymeniform in primordia) made up by
diverticulate hyphae together with Siccus-type broom celllike and setulose endings or well-developed Rameales structure and lacking pleurocystidia while Gymnopus sect.
Perforantia subsect. Perforantia (then, Paragymnopus) has
a pileipellis formed by a cutis of repent, usually incrusted or
varying from diverticulate to non-divericulate hyphae and
having pleurocystidia (Antonín and Noordeloos 2010;
Petersen and Hughes 2016). This distinction based on elements of the pileipellis is not observed between Gymnopus
sect. Androsacei and Gymnopus sect. Perforantia subsect.
Pinophili, a problem that was also noted by Petersen and
Hughes (2016). A solution for this apparent inconsistency is
not provided to date based on morphology since it was surprising to see G. pinophilus and G. ponderosae branching
close to Gymnopus sect. Perforantia subsect. Perforantia instead of Gymnopus sect. Androsacei (Petersen and Hughes
2016). Macroscopically, Paragymnopus usually has offwhite to dingy pale gray lamellae, never attached to a
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pseudocollarium, and almost always a vestured stipe (Petersen
and Hughes 2016). On the other hand, the lamellae in
Gymnopus sect. Androsacei are often nearly as dark as
the pileus, sometimes attached to a pseudocollarium,
and the hair-like stipe is usually glabrous and shining
(Antonín and Noordeloos 2010; Petersen and Hughes
2016). Finely hairy stipe can be found only in
Gymnopus cremeostipitatus Antonín, R. Ryoo & K.H.
Ka (Antonín and Noordeloos 2010) if the species is
considered within the section based on the concept proposed in the present study (see more in the discussion
on Gymnopus sect. Androsacei). Among numerous morphological divergencies, Paragymnopus (Clade H) differs from the other sections of Gymnopus s. str. (Clade
G) in having fusiform pleurocystidia and dextrinoid
structures (trama or elements). A synoptic key comparing Paragymnopus with the other genera of /letinuloid
clade is provided in Online Resource (Chart O1).
Selected literature: Antonín and Noordeloos (2010);
Petersen and Hughes (2016).
Paragymnopus sect. Paragymnopus
Gymnopus sect. Perforantia subsect. Perforantia, subsect.
auton.
Stipe usually vestured; cheilocystidia often absent,
when present, clavate to utriform; pileipellis a layer of
repent, incrusted or diverticulate hyphae (outgrowths on
hyphal segments, not like Rameales structure), conspicuously clamped, usually with thickened walls (through
gelatinization) and usually embedded in a slime matrix;
fruiting on conifer needles or broad-leafed debris [summarized from Petersen and Hughes (2016) as Gymnopus
sect. Perforantia].
Type species: Paragymnopus perforans (Hoffm.) J.S.
Oliveira.
Paragymnopus foliiphilus (R.H. Petersen) J.S. Oliveira,
comb. nov. (MB 828406)
Gymnopus foliiphilus R.H. Petersen, MycoKeys 18: 17
(2016)
Paragymnopus foliiphilus var. costaricensis (R.H. Petersen
& J.L. Mata) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828407)
Gymnopus foliiphilus var. costaricensis R.H. Petersen &
J.L. Mata, MycoKeys 18: 28 (2016)
Paragymnopus perforans (Hoffm.) J.S. Oliveira, comb.
nov. (MB 828408)
Agaricus perforans Hoffm., Nomencl. fung.: 215, t.4: 2
(1789)
Paragymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus (R.H.
Petersen) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828409)
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Gymnopus perforans subsp. transatlanticus R.H. Petersen,
MycoKeys 18: 52 (2016).
Paragymnopus sequoiae (Desjardin) J.S. Oliveira, comb.
nov. (MB 828410)
Micromphale sequoiae Desjardin, Mycologia 77: 894
(1986)
Paragymnopus sublaccatus (R.H. Petersen) J.S. Oliveira,
comb. nov. (MB 828411)
Gymnopus sublaccatus R.H. Petersen, MycoKeys 18: 97
(2016)
Paragymnopus sect. Pinophili (R.H. Petersen) J.S.
Oliveira, comb. nov.
Gymnopus sect. Perforantia subsect. Pinophili R.H.
Petersen, MycoKeys 18: 9 (2016)
Stipe glabrous-shining; cheilocystidia Siccus-type broom
cells; pileipellis composed of well-developed Rameales structure; fruiting on needles of Pinus; discrete clade wellseparated from the clade of members of the previous section
[summarized from Petersen and Hughes (2016) as Gymnopus
sect. Perforantia subsect. Pinophili].
Type species: Paragymnopus pinophilus (R.H. Petersen)
J.S. Oliveira.
Paragymnopus pinophilus (R.H. Petersen) J.S. Oliveira,
comb. nov. (MB 828412)
Gymnopus pinophilus R.H. Petersen, MycoKeys 18: 62
(2016)
Paragymnopus ponderosae (R.H. Petersen) J.S. Oliveira,
comb. nov. (MB 828413)
Gymnopus ponderosae R.H. Petersen, MycoKeys 18: 70
(2016)
Gymnopus (Pers.) Roussel, Flore du Calvados et terrains
adjacents, composée suivant la méthode de Jussieu: 62 (1806)
Basidiomata collybioid, rarely tricholomatoid or
marasmioid. Pileus convex, plano-convex to applanate or
slightly concave, with or without umbo or papilla,
hygrophanous or not, translucently striate or not, dry or slightly viscid, glabrous or innately radially fibrillose. Lamellae
free, emarginate or adnate, usually crowded, sometimes fairly
distant, regular, segmentiform or ventricose with entire or serrate edge. Stipe central, cylindrical fleshy to filiform, wiry,
sometimes broadened towards base, glabrous and polished
or fibrillose to finely pubescent (mostly when the basidiomata
are fetid or dried or when any tissue reacts to alkaline solution), insititious or more often non-insititious, usually with
strigose base, some with whitish rhizoids or sometimes deeply
rooting or arising from a sclerotium, tough and firm, solid or
fistulose. Rhizomorphs rarely present. Odor indistinct or fetid
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(rotten cabbage, sewage, etc.) or onion- or garlic-like. Spore
print white. Basidiospores ellipsoid to short-oblong (never
very elongate or long-clavate), not often subglobose to globose
or lacrymoid, thin-walled, hyaline, non-amyloid, with confluent
or well-delimitated hilar appendage. Basidia 4-spored, clamped.
Cheilocystidia usually present, cylindrical, flexuous, clavate or
irregularly coralloid, thin-walled, sometimes as broom cells.
Pleurocystidia absent. Lamellar trama regular to subregular.
Pileus trama irregular. Pileipellis a cutis or ixocutis of radially
arranged cylindrical hyphae, or interwoven, more like a
trichoderm or ixotrichoderm, made up of irregular coralloid terminal elements (Dryophila-type structures), sometimes
hymeniform in primordial stages only, then soon an irregular
trichoderm, composed of irregular, often incrusted, diverticulate
hyphal elements, mixed with broom cells and coralloid hyphae.
Clamp connections present in all tissues (except for G. bisporiger
Antonín & Noordel.).
Chemical reactions: No reaction to Melzer’s reagent or
Cresyl Blue, but there are rare cases where incrustations of
the hyphae are dextrinoid or in Gymnopus sect. Androsacei
where at least the stipe trama is dextrinoid; some taxa have
also tissue of the basidiome turning green, olivaceous or
ochraceous in alkaline solution (NH4OH or KOH).
Ecology: Saprotrophic, rarely parasitic; in humus, on
wood, rarely on roots of dead, not often on living herbaceous
or woody plants (Antonín and Noordeloos 2010).
Type species: Gymnopus fusipes (Bull.) Gray.
Delimitation: According to the clade G, Gymnopus s. str. is
composed of members of Gymnopus sect. Gymnopus, sect.
Androsacei, sect. Levipedes (subsections Levipedes and
Alkalivirentes) and sect. Impudicae. With only one exception
so far, G. barbipes R.H. Petersen & K.W. Hughes that grouped
along with members of sect. Impudicae, Gymnopus sect.
Vestipedes is segregated and now placed within Marasmiellus
s. str. In spite of being very distinct genera based on the phylogenetic trees of the present study, Gymnopus s. str. and
Marasmiellus s. str. agree in many features and remain devoid
of sharp morphological divergency. As long as members of
Gymnopus sect. Vestipedes can be recognized as such using morphological characteristics, dichotomy between this group (sect.
Vestipedes) and the other sections of Gymnopus s. str. can be
warranted. In other words, this is the limit between Gymnopus
s. str. and Marasmiellus s. str. Based on the present study,
Gymnopus s. str. contains the four cited sections, and they are
found either to be monophyletic (with high support) or tending to
monophyletic but unsupported. This result is quite concordant
with previous phylogenetic studies (Wilson and Desjardin 2005;
Mata et al. 2006; Hughes et al. 2010; Coimbra et al. 2015;
Petersen and Hughes 2016, 2017). Wilson and Desjardin
(2005) were the first to suggest these possible concepts of distinc
genera, despite the fact that their /marasmiellus was unsupported
and their /gymnopus included Micromphale perforans
(Paragymnopus). Mata et al. (2006), in spite of defending a
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broad concept of Gymnopus including Marasmiellus, found
groupings suggested not only two possible genera, but a possible
infrageneric relationship of Gymnopus s. str. into sections. These
possible sections were assimilated by Antonín and Noordeloos
(2010), but they did not definitively exclude Gymnopus sect.
Vestipedes from the genus. Hughes et al. (2010) and Petersen
and Hughes (2016, 2017) also found this pattern in their tree,
but the concept of two genera (Gymnopus and Marasmiellus)
was not established, and only included a new section in the broad
Gymnopus (Petersen and Hughes 2016). Coimbra et al. (2015)
worked on and developed the concept of Gymnopus sect.
Impudicae. The present study not only provides limits between
Gymnopus and Marasmiellus, but also strengthens the concepts
of at least four possibly natural sections in Gymnopus. The sections are presented below, but the concepts of subsections are not
treated in this present paper. Additionally, a synoptic key comparing Gymnopus s. str. with the other genera of /letinuloid clade
is provided in Online Resource (Chart O1).
Selected literature: Singer (1986), Wilson et al. (2004),
Antonín et al. (1997), Antonín and Noordeloos (1997, 2010).
Gymnopus sect. Gymnopus
Basidiomata fleshy; stipe radicant, forming a distinct
pseudorrhiza, deeply sulcate-striate; spore print white to pale
ochraceous; cheilocystidia present; pileipellis as a transition
between a cutis and a trichoderm, often somewhat gelatinized,
composed of irregular, inflated, or often coralloid elements,
some resembling Dryophila-type structures; no dextrinoid or
cyanophilous structures; parasitic or saprophytic, in bundles at
the base of broad-leaved trees, frequently on roots or stumps
[summarized from Antonín and Noordeloos (2010)].
Type species: Gymnopus fusipes (Bull.) Gray.
Gymnopus sect. Androsacei (Kühner) Antonín &
Noordeloos, Czech Mycology 60: 25 (2008)
Basidiomata small, marasmioid; pileus dull, dry; lamellae
free to adnate, sometimes pseudocollariate; stipe filiform
(hair-like), insititious and glabrous (if G. cremeostipitatus belongs to this section, then the stipe can be pallid and finely
pubescent or hairy), cheilocystidia in the form of Siccus-type
broom cells or coralloid elements; pileipellis hymeniform in
primordia only, then non-hymeniform, an irregular trichoderm
of often incrusted, diverticulate hyphal elements, irregular in
outline, mixed with Siccus-type broom cells and coralloid elements; trama dextrinoid, at least in the stipe apex; saprophytic, on litter of coniferous or broadleaved trees [summarized
from Antonín and Noordeloos (2010)].
Type species: Gymnopus androsaceus (L.) Della Magg. &
Trassin.
Notes: Gymnopus cremeostipitatus Antonín, R. Ryoo &
K.H. Ka, G. neobrevipes R.H. Petersen and G. portoricensis
R.H. Petersen are additional taxa according to the present
circumscription. A small strongly supported clade groups
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G. androsaceus along with informal taxa named Gymnopus
adventitius nom. prov., G. frigidomarginatus nom. prov., and
G. novaeangliae nom. prov. Also, perhaps Gymnopus
inflatotrama nom. prov. and G. novomundi nom. prov. are
close species, but they await description. These informal taxa
seem to belong to Gymnopus sect. Androsacei along with the
four already described species. However, all these species did
not form a clade, so a definitive resolution will wait for future
studies. Out of these species, only G. cremeostipitatus produce non-glabrous and pale stipe and may be a taxon of other
section, helping to separate Gymnopus sect. Androsacei from
Paragymnopus sect. Paragymnopus.
Gymnopus sect. Levipedes (Fr.) Halling, Brittonia 48 (4):
487 (1996).
Stipe smooth, polished or pubescent; pileipellis mostly as
an entangled (never radially oriented) trichoderm, composed
of inflated, often lobed elements or coralloid, Dryophila-type
structures; trama and elements non-dextrinoid, some species
turning green in alkali; saprophytic, usually in coarse humus
and forest litter, or on rotten wood [summarized from Antonín
and Noordeloos (2010)].
Type species: Gymnopus dryophilus (Bull.) Murrill.
Additional species: Gymnopus alkalivirens (Singer)
Halling; G. alpinus (Vilgalys & O.K. Mill.) Antonín &
Noordel.; G. aquosus (Bull.) Antonín & Noordel.;
G. aurantiipes (Corner) A.W. Wilson, Desjardin & E.
Horak; G. austrosemihirtipes A.W. Wilson, Desjardin & E.
Horak; G. bicolor A.W. Wilson, Desjardin & E. Horak;
G. bisporus (J. Carbó & Pérez-De-Greg.) J. Carbó & PérezDe-Greg.; G. catalonicus (Vila & Llimona) Vila & Llimona;
G. earleae Murrill; G. erythropus (Pers.) Antonín, Halling &
Noordel.; G. exculptus (Fr.) J.L. Mata; G. fagiphilus (Velen.)
Antonín, Halling & Noordel.; G. hybridus (Kühner &
Romagn.) Antonín & Noordel.; G. inusitatus (Vila &
Llimona) Vila & Llimona; G. inusitatus var. cystidiatus
Antonín; G. indoctoides A.W. Wilson, Desjardin & E.
Horak; G. junquilleus R.H. Petersen & J.L. Mata;
G. kauffmanii (Halling) Halling; G. macropus Halling;
G. montagnei (Berk.) Redhead; G. nubicola Halling;
G. ocior (Pers.) Antonín & Noordel.; G. polyphyllus (Peck)
Halling; G. salakensis A.W. Wilson; Desjardin & E. Horak;
G. sepiiconicus (Corner) A.W. Wilson, Desjardin & E. Horak;
G. spongiosus (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Halling;
G. subsulphureus (Peck) Murrill; G. vitellinipes A.W.
Wilson, Desjardin & E. Horak.
Gymnopus sect. Impudicae (Antonín & Noordel.) Antonín
& Noordel.: 222 (2010)
Basidiomata collybioid or marasmioid; smell strong, fetid
(rotten cabbage, sewage, etc.) or like onions or garlic;
cheilocystidia often inconspicuous; pileipellis composed of
diverticulate elements, but never in form of true Dryophila-
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type structures [summarized from Antonín and Noordeloos
(2010)].
Type species: Gymnopus impudicus (Fr.) Antonín, Halling
& Noordel.
Additional species: G. barbipes R.H. Petersen & K.W.
Hughes; G. brassicolens (Romagn.) Antonín & Noordel.;
G. brassicolens var. pallidus Antonín & Noordel.;
G. dysodes (Halling) Halling; G. foetidus (Sowerby) J.L.
Mata & R.H. Petersen; G. impudicus var. graveolens (G.
Poirault ex Boud.) Vila & Llimona; G. iocephalus (Berk. &
M.A. Curtis) Halling.
Marasmiellus Murrill, North American Flora 9 (4): 243
(1915).
Marasmius sect. Rameales Kühner, Botaniste 25: 88
(1933).
Gymnopus sect. Vestipedes (Fr.) Antonín, Halling &
Noordel., emed., Mycotaxon 63: 363 (1997).
Basidiomata gymnopoid, collybioid or omphalioid,
marasmielloid, to pleurotoid. Pileus orbicular to semicircular,
some reniform, applanate to convex, or campanulate, with or
without papilla, flattened or wavy-lobate, white, yellow, pink or
brown. Lamellae usually well-developed, rarely venose, free,
adnate to decurrent. Stipe central, eccentric to almost lateral,
sometimes reduced and curved, cylindrical, insititious or subinsititious, rarely with distinct basal mycelium, fistulose to hollow, pale at the apex, often darkening towards base, surface
vestured, pruinose to pubescent, pulverulent, fibrillose, minutely
flocculose to rather distinctly squamulose, but never glabrous or
smooth. Rhizomorphs usually absent, rarely present. Odor indistinct. Spore print white to cream. Basidiospores ellipsoid to oblong, rarely sub-cylindrical, fusiform, lacrymoid or
amygdaliform, usually with confluent hilar appendage, smooth,
hyaline, thin-walled. Basidioles mostly fusoid. Lamellar edge
usually sterile. Cheilocystidia often present, well-differentiated.
Pleurocystidia usually absent. Lamellar and Pileus trama regular, subregular to irregular. Pileipellis usually a simple cutis,
sometimes in transition to a trichoderm, with weakly to distinctly
coralloid or diverticulate terminal elements (Rameales-structures), Dryophila-type structures never present. Caulocystidia
present, well-developed, of various shapes. Clamp connections
usually present.
Chemical reactions: No amyloid, dextrinoid or
cyanophilous reactions; usually not metachromatical in
Cresyl Blue.
Ecology: Usually gregarious, more rarely solitary,
saprotrophic, more rarely parasitic on all kinds of living
plants; some are host-specific; many species occur in rather
exposed habitats, where moisture may vary considerably (costal dunes, xerophytic grassland); some are salt-tolerant
(Antonín and Noordeloos 2010).
Type species: Marasmiellus juniperinus Murrill.
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Delimitation: Based on Clade A (Fig. 2), Marasmiellus
s. str. is composed of members of Marasmiellus, at least, of
sect. Dealbati, sect. Marasmiellus, sect. Rameales, and sect.
Stenophylloides [see also Wilson and Desjardin (2005)] and
Gymnopus sect. Vestipedes (excepting G. barbipes). Based
on Wilson and Desjardin (2005), Marasmiellus sect.
Candidi does not belong to this new concept of
Marasmiellus s. str. As in Gymnopus s. str., Marasmiellus s. str.
is more evidently delimited in cladistic analyses so far. Since the
present analysis includes abundant members of Gymnopus sect.
Vestipedes, but the sections of Marasmiellus are poorly represented, no infrageneric classifications are tested or newly proposed
herein. Based on Wilson and Desjardin (2005) and the present
study (Fig. 1), we learn that Marasmiellus sect. Candidi is polyphyletic and its members are not included in the family
Omphalotaceae, but possibly belong to Marasmiaceae within
multiple lineages. The presence of pleurocystidia is very rare,
observed for instance in Marasmiellus phaeomarasmioides G.
Moreno, Heykoop, Esteve-Rav. & E. Horak (scarce, filiform,
versiform, sometimes with few outgrowths) and M. maasgeesterani Robich & E. Campo (sparse, clavate to
sphaeropenduculate) (Antonín and Noordeloos 2010). In the
same study, M. trabutii (Maire) Singer is the only one reported
as having pileus trama embedded in gelatinous matrix.
Unfortunately, these three species have no sequences included
in phylogenetic analyses, and these mentioned characteristics are
not confirmed in Marasmiellus s. str. A synoptic key comparing
Marasmiellus s. str. with the other genera of /letinuloid clade is
provided in Online Resource (Chart O1). Retnowati (2018) has
just proposed 16 new species of Marasmiellus, two new combinations and eight names are lectotypified in the genus. However,
genetic data still need to be provided for phylogenetic evaluation
of those taxa.
Selected literature: Singer (1986), Wilson et al. (2004),
Wilson and Desjardin (2005), Antonín and Noordeloos
(1997, 2010).
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including the correct spelling.
Marasmiellus collybioides (Speg.) J.S. Oliveira, comb.
nov. (MB 828417)
Clitocybe collybioides Speg., Boletín de la Academia
Nacional de Ciencias en Córdoba 11 (4): 387 (1889)
Marasmiellus confluens (Pers.) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov.
(MB 828475)
Agaricus confluens Pers., Annalen der Botanik (Usteri) 15:
8 (1795)
Marasmiellus cylindricus (J.L. Mata) J.S. Oliveira, comb.
nov. (MB 828477)
Gymnopus cylindricus J.L. Mata, Fungal Diversity 16: 118
(2004)
Marasmiellus dichrous (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) J.S.
Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828478)
Marasmius dichrous Berk. & M.A. Curtis, Annals and
Magazine of Natural History 12: 426 (‘326’) (1853)
Marasmiellus disjunctus (R.H. Petersen & K.W. Hughes)
J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828479)
Gymnopus disjunctus R.H. Petersen & K.W. Hughes,
North American Fungi 9: 2 (2014)
Marasmiellus eberhardtii (Pat.) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov.
(MB 828728)
Laschia eberhardtii Pat., Bulletin de la Société
Mycologique de France 25: 8 (1909)
Marasmiellus eneficola (R.H. Petersen) J.S. Oliveira,
comb. nov. (MB 828480)
Gymnopus eneficola R.H. Petersen, Omphalina 5 (5): 5
(2014)
Marasmiellus alnicola (J.L. Mata & Halling) J.S. Oliveira,
comb. nov. (MB 828414)
Gymnopus alnicola J.L. Mata & Halling, Fungal Diversity
16: 115 (2004)
Marasmiellus fibrosipes (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) J.S.
Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828584)
Marasmius fibrosipes Berk. & M.A. Curtis, Journal of the
Linnean Society. Botany 10: 293 (1869)
Marasmiellus biformis (Peck) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov.
(MB 828415)
Marasmius biformis Peck, Bulletin of the New York State
Museum 67: 25 (1903)
Marasmiellus fuscotramus (Mešić, Tkalčec & Chun Y.
Deng) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828481)
Gymnopus fuscotramus Mešić, Tkalčec & Chun Y. Deng,
Mycotaxon 117: 324 (2011)
Marasmiellus brunneogracilis (Corner) J.S. Oliveira,
comb. nov. (MB 828416)
Marasmius brunneigracilis Corner, Beihefte zur Nova
Hedwigia 111: 39 (1996)
Notes: The correct spelling of the epithet is brunneogracilis
instead of brunneigracilis. The name is herein combined
Marasmiellus gibbosus (Corner) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov.
(MB 828482)
Marasmius gibbosus Corner, Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia
111: 55 (1996)
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Marasmiellus indoctus (Corner) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov.
(MB 828483)
Marasmius indoctus Corner, Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia
111: 60 (1996)
Marasmiellus luxurians (Peck) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov.
(MB 828605)
Collybia luxurians Peck, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical
Club 24: 141 (1897)
Marasmiellus melanopus (A.W. Wilson, Desjardin & E.
Horak) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828484)
Gymnopus melanopus A.W. Wilson, Desjardin & E.
Horak, Sydowia 56 (1): 181 (2004)
Marasmiellus menehune (Desjardin, Halling & Hemmes)
J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828587)
Gymnopus menehune Desjardin, Halling & Hemmes,
Mycologia 91 (1): 173 (1999)
Marasmiellus mesoamericanus (J.L. Mata) J.S. Oliveira,
comb. nov. (MB 828490)
Gymnopus mesoamericanus J.L. Mata, Sydowia 58 (2): 283
(2006)
Marasmiellus micromphaloides (R.H. Petersen & K.W.
Hughes) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828491)
Gymnopus micromphaloides R.H. Petersen and K.W.
Hughes, North American Fungi 9: 6 (2014)
Marasmiellus neotropicus (Singer) J.S. Oliveira, comb.
nov. (MB 828586)
Collybia neotropica Singer, Sydowia 15 (1-6): 54 (1962)
Marasmiellus nonnullus (Corner) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov.
(MB 828510)
Marasmius nonnullus Corner, Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia
111: 76 (1996)
Marasmiellus nonnullus var. attenuatus (Corner) J.S.
Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828511)
Marasmius nonnullus var. attenuatus Corner, Beihefte zur
Nova Hedwigia 111: 77 (1996)
Marasmiellus parvulus (J.L. Mata, R.H. Petersen & K.W.
Hughes) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828492)
Gymnopus parvulus J.L. Mata, R.H. Petersen & K.W.
Hughes, Sydowia 58 (2): 285 (2006)
Marasmiellus peronatus (Bolton) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov.
(MB 828512)
735
Agaricus peronatus Bolton, An History of Fungusses,
Growing about Halifax 2: t. 58 (1788)
Marasmiellus polygrammus (Mont.) J.S. Oliveira, comb.
nov. (MB 828585)
Marasmius polygrammus Mont., Annales des Sciences
Naturelles Botanique 1: 118 (1854)
Marasmiellus pseudoluxurians (R.H. Petersen and K.W.
Hughes) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828493)
Gymnopus pseudoluxurians R.H. Petersen and K.W.
Hughes, North American Fungi 9: 7 (2014)
Marasmiellus pseudomphalioides (Dennis) J.S. Oliveira,
comb. nov. (MB 828589)
Collybia pseudomphalodes Dennis, Kew Bulletin 15 (1):
74 (1961)
Notes: Acconding to Dennis (1961), the epithet is due to
the resemblance to Collybia omphalodes (Berk.) Dennis (≡
Marasmius omphalodes Berk.). Berkeley (1856) justified the
choice of the name by considering the species between
Marasmius and Omphalia. The correct spelling is
Marasmius omphalioides, and therefore, Collybia
pseudomphalioides Dennis. The is combined herein with the
correct spelling.
Marasmiellus quercophilus (Pouzar) J.S. Oliveira, comb.
nov. (MB 828588)
Marasmius quercophilus Pouzar, Ceská Mykologie 36 (1):
1 (1982)
Marasmiellus stevensonii (E. Horak) J.S. Oliveira, comb.
nov. (MB 828726)
Collybia stevensoniae E. Horak, New Zealand Journal
of Botany 9 (3): 450 (1971) [nom. nov. to replace the
illegitimate ≡ Crinipellis readii G. Stev., Kew Bulletin
19 (1): 43 (1964)]
Marasmiellus subcyathiformis (Murrill) J.S. Oliveira,
comb. nov. (MB 828602)
Marasmius subcyathiformis Murrill, North American Flora
9 (4): 269 (1915)
Marasmiellus subnudus (Ellis ex Peck) J.S. Oliveira,
comb. nov. (MB 828513)
Marasmius subnudus Ellis ex Peck, Annual Report of the
New York State Museum 51: 287. (1898 [as 1897])
Marasmiellus subpruinosus (Murrill) J.S. Oliveira, comb.
nov. (MB 828603)
Marasmius subpruinosus Murrill, North American Flora 9
(4): 266 (1915)
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Fig. 7 Infection and necrosis on
living leaves until death by
Pusillomyces
manuripioides (JO1117). a
Rhizomorph attachment to the
foliar face. b Early stage of the
infection. c Necrosis of the foliar
tissue. d Death of the initially
infected area. e Spot of necrosis in
living leaf and decaying of dead
leaf. f Death of the entire leaf
Marasmiellus indonesiensis A.W. Wilson, Desjardin & E.
Horak ex J.S. Oliveira, sp. nov. (MB 828712)
Etymology: refers to Indonesia, where the holotype was
collected.
Holotype: Indonesia, Bali, Lake Tamblingan, solitary on
leaf litter, 15. 01. 2000, Wilson 39, holotypus (SFSU).
Diagnosis: The effectively published description in
A.W. Wilson, Desjardin & E. Horak, Sydowia 56 (1):
193 (2004), as Gymnopus tamblinganensis nom. prov.,
according to the Art. 38.1, 38.11 and 38.13 of the
Code.
Notes: The name Marasmiellus tamblinganensis is already
occupied [Marasmiellus tamblinganensis Retn., Gardens
Bulletin Singapore 70 (1): 227 (2018)].
Marasmiellus termiticola (Corner) J.S. Oliveira, comb.
nov. (MB 828509)
Marasmius termiticola Corner, Beihefte zur Nova
Hedwigia 111: 101 (1996)
Marasmiellus trogioides (A.W. Wilson, Desjardin & E.
Horak) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov. (MB 828494)
Gymnopus trogioides A.W. Wilson, Desjardin & E. Horak,
Sydowia 56 (1): 195 (2004)
Marasmiellus villosipes (Cleland) J.S. Oliveira, comb. nov.
(MB 828606)
Marasmius villosipes Cleland, Toadstools and mushrooms
and other larger fungi of South Australia 1: 166 (1934)
Additional species: Marasmiellus ramealis (Bull.) Singer;
Marasmiellus stenophyllus (Mont.) Singer; Marasmiellus
synodicus (Kunze) Singer; Marasmiellus vaillantii (Pers.) Singer.
Ecology of Pusillomyces manuripioides
Pusillomyces manuripioides is epiphyte, forming a
rhizomorph net entangled with hanging living and dead (or
dying) leaves, twigs, branches and limbs about 1.5 m and
upwards off the ground, seemingly strictly or at least more
frequently of Eugenia spp. (shrubby to subarboreal trees of
the subforest) (Fig. 3a, Online Resource Fig. O6a–b).
Manuripia bifida, however, was found on dicotyledonous
dead fallen woody sticks on the forest floor (Singer 1976).
This is a very important distinction in the habit and habitat,
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suggesting different niches. Being epiphytic, P. manuripioides
demonstrates particular adaptations, pattern of reproduction
and distribution, and different nutrition mode. It acts as a facultative parasite causing necrosis in living leaves on where the
rhizomorphs are attached (Fig. 7), being a kind of Horse Hair
Blight disease with true infection of living plant tissues. Field
observations suggest that there is host specificity with
Eugenia spp. for the parasitic mode, whereas there is no substrate specificity for the saprotrophic mode.
To properly understand the ecology of the species, firstly, we
observed that the main structural body unit of the hypothetical
individuals is represented by an interconnected net of
rhizomorphs from where most of the basidiomata grow. Even
those basidiomata that seem to grow directly from the leaves
were actually arising from rhizomorphs strongly adhered to the
foliar face. This adherence of the rhizomorphs is essential since it
may serve both for attachment and parasitic nutrition. Therefore,
the production of rhizomorphs is the main strategy of the species
instead of being an accessory or secondary growth mode. That is,
we shall always find the species growing as this interconnected
net of rhizomorphs where we possibly can find the tiny
basidiomata.
Secondly, the habit of the new species strongly indicates that it
can act as both a biotrophic on living leaves and saprotrophic on
dead leaves resulting from the parasitic activity. Moreover, dead
leaves of various tree species that fall from the canopy can be also
captured in the rhizomorphs net, serving as food for the fungus.
The infection initiates with the adherence established when a free
part of rhizomorph touches the foliar face (Figs. 3, 4, and 7a).
Then, generative hyphae grow from the inner part of the
rhizomorph out to the substrate (Fig. 7a, b), invading the cortical
layer of the leaf. These abundant generative hyphae form a visible cream-colored mycelial tomentum along both sides of the
rhizomorph. On living substrate, the rhizomorph of
P. manuripioides provokes necrosis on previously healthy leaves,
starting as a dirty brown difuse spot around the mycelium tomentum of the rhizomorphs (Fig. 7b). Then, the necrosis progresses
damaging the immediate area of the leaf causing it to become
pale brown with dark brown border (Fig. 7c). The damage gets
more severe, killing that area of the leaf. The killed area becomes
pale yellow or brownish yellow with some conspicuous and
abundant inconspicuous dark brown dots (Fig. 7d, e). It is possible to see a large dark brown spot around the infecting
rhizomorph. The necrosis expands to the entire leaf, causing
death of the whole structure (Fig. 7f). Once the leaf is dead, the
infecting rhizomorph switches to the sapotrophic mode,
decomposing the dead structure. The rhizomorphs can also be
found attached along living limbs, branches and twigs bearing
infected leaves. These parts do not seem to be damaged and may
be used only to conduct the rhizomorphs to the leaves, but this
need confirmation.
More evidences of the parasitic activity of P. manuripioides
such as the morphology of the infection apparatus and the
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manner in which the fungus invades the plant, the life cycle,
the pathogenicity, the host specificity and a thorough observation on the ecology of the species will be the subject of
another paper.
Conclusions
Significant progress is reached on the phylogeny of
Omphalotaceae, retaining the widely used genera, Gymnopus
and Marasmiellus. These genera have been the subject of many
efforts firstly (and historically) in morphology and more recently
in molecular phylogeny studies to find definitive concepts in the
taxonomy and systematics of these groups. The present study
offers clear evidences for Gymnopus s. str. consisting of
Gymnopus sections Androsacei, Gymnopus, Impudicae and
Levipedes while Marasmiellus s. str. is composed of Gymnopus
sect. Vestipedes and members of Marasmiellus sections Dealbati,
Marasmiellus, Rameales, and Stenophylloides (so far). Based on
Wilson and Desjardin (2005), Marasmiellus sect. Candidi is excluded from Marasmiellus s. str. Therefore, we defend the concept and propose the acceptance of a less inclusive Gymnopus;
and on the other hand, Marasmiellus forming a distinct genus as
suggested by Wilson and Desjardin (2005). Two new genera are
now added to Omphalotaceae: Paragymnopus and Pusillomyces.
Paragymnopus contains species of Gymnopus sect. Perforantia
(Petersen and Hughes 2016). Pusillomyces is a new genus composed of P. manuripioides and the now combined Gymnopus
asetosus and G. funalis. All genera recognized in this study follow Vellinga et al. (2015). Pusillomyces manuripioides is a phytopathogenic fungus found with an epiphytic habit more frequently on Eugenia spp. in BCampinarana,^ Amazon forest,
but specific studies of its pathogenicity ought to be made to
understand its biology in depth. Full taxonomic treatment was
provided to fulfill nomenclatural requirements for the new taxa.
Acknowledgments The authors thank the INPA Herbarium for contributing to this publication, R.H.S.F. Cruz for doing the illustrations, Dr.
Tarciso de Sousa Filgueiras for reviewing the names in Latin, Dr.
Genevieve Gates (Honorary Associate in Mycology and Forest
Ecology, Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture) for reviewing the English
writing and the anonymous reviewers for relevant contribution to this
paper. The authors also thank the financial and logistical support from
the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas –
FAPEAM, the Centro de Estudos Integrados da Biodiversidade
Am azônica (INCT- CENBAM), the Conselho Nacional de
Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), the Biodiversity
Research Program (PPBio), and the Japan Science and Technology
Agency /Japan International Cooperation Agency - Science and
Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (JST/
JICA-SATREPS). Study registered in SISGen (Sistema Nacional de
Gestão do Patrimônio Genético e do Conhecimento Tradicional
Associado) number A44535D.
Funding This study was supported by BCoordenação de
Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES^ with a
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scholarship from BPrograma Nacional de Pós-doutorado – PNPD^
granted to J.J.S. de Oliveira, post-doctoral fellow of DIBOT, and
other to T.S. Cabral, post-doctoral fellow of DIGEN, INPA. For R.
Vargas-Isla, a scholarship from BAção Orçamentária – MCTIC/PT
19.571.2021.20VD.0001 (C, T & I para Pesquisa, Desenvolvimento,
Conservação, Valoração e Sustentabilidade dos Recursos Naturais
Brasileiros).
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