A new genus to accommodate Gymnopus acervatus (Agaricales)
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Published on: November 30, 2006
Karen W Hughes1, David A Mather, Ronald H Petersen
1Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1100, USA. khughes@utk.edu
Abstract:
Phylogenies based on ITS and LSU nrDNA sequences show Agaricus (Gymnopus) acervatus as unique within the Gymnopus/Rhodocollybia complex. These phylogenies imply that a separate genus is necessary, and Connopus is proposed. Infraspecific morphological and DNA-based variation within C. acervatus suggests that a western North American clade might be reproductively isolated from the eastern North American/Scandinavian clade and that in this species complex the European and eastern North American clade might be conspecific. A Scandinavian exemplar is selected for bar-coding. Two GenBank sequences with name-phylogenetic placement inconsistencies are identified.
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