1. Taxonomic revision of Russula subsection Amoeninae from South Korea
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Slavomír Adamčík, Miroslav Caboň, Changmu Kim, Brian Looney, Young Woon Lim, Aniket Ghosh, Bart Buyck, Myung Soo Park, Hyun Lee, Chang Sun Kim, Kanad Das, and Komsit Wisitrassameewong
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Agaricomycetes ,Asia ,Zoology ,multilocus phylogeny ,Amoeninae ,030308 mycology & parasitology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Monophyly ,Russulaceae ,Amoeninae Heterophyllae multilocus phylogeny Russula orientipurpurea species delimitation ,lcsh:Botany ,Internal transcribed spacer ,Hymenium ,Clade ,Russula ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Russulales ,Taxonomy ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Heterophyllae ,biology ,Phylogenetic tree ,Basidiomycota ,Fungi ,biology.organism_classification ,lcsh:QK1-989 ,Russula orientipurpurea ,species delimitation ,Geography ,Taxonomy (biology) ,Subgenus ,Research Article - Abstract
Russula subsection Amoeninae is morphologically defined by a dry velvety pileus surface, a complete absence of cystidia with heteromorphous contents in all tissues, and spores without amyloid suprahilar spot. Thirty-four species within subsection Amoeninae have been published worldwide. Although most Russula species in South Korea have been assigned European or North American names, recent molecular studies have shown that Russula species from different continents are not conspecific. Therefore, the present study aims to: 1) define which species of Russula subsection Amoeninae occur on each continent using molecular phylogenetic analyses; 2) revise the taxonomy of Korean Amoeninae. The phylogenetic analyses using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and multilocus sequences showed that subsection Amoeninae is monophyletic within subgenus Heterophyllidiae section Heterophyllae. A total of 21 Russula subsection Amoeninae species were confirmed from Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and Central America, and species from different continents formed separate clades. Three species were recognized from South Korea and were clearly separated from the European and North American species. These species are R. bella, also reported from Japan, a new species described herein, Russula orientipurpurea, and a new species undescribed due to insufficient material.
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- 2020