Applied Cell Biology

Leucocoprinus Flavoaurantiacus (Agaricaceae), a New Species from Buner District Pakistan

Muhammad Ishaq¹*, Wenhua Lu^2,3, Muhammad Asif⁴, Muhammad Binyamin Khan⁵, Sana⁶, Abdallah M. Elgorban⁷, Samantha C. Karunarathna²*

¹Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
²Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, P.R. China
³Center of Excellence in Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand ⁴Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
⁵Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
⁶Department of Botany, Division of Science & Technology, University of Education, Lahore, 54500,Pakistan.
⁷Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

A new species Leucocoprinus flavoaurantiacus is collected and described from Buner District, Pakistan, based on morphological characteristics and molecular evidence. The characteristics of fresh basidiomata and phylogenetic placement using the rDNA (ITS) barcode region confirm the new species. Description with comprehensive discussions, illustrations, and phylogenetic analysis results are provided for the novel species.

Keywords:

Basidiomycota, ITS, Molecular phylogeny, Taxonomy