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Citation for Study 1390

About Citation title: "The new genus Auritella from Africa and Australia (Inocybaceae, Agaricales): molecular systematics, taxonomy and historical biogeography".
About This study was previously identified under the legacy study ID S1360 (Status: Published).

Citation

Matheny P.B., & Bougher N. 2005. The new genus Auritella from Africa and Australia (Inocybaceae, Agaricales): molecular systematics, taxonomy and historical biogeography. Mycological Progress, null.

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  • Matheny P.B. Phone 865-974-8896
  • Bougher N.

Abstract

Recent phylogenetic evidence strongly supports a monophyletic group of Afro-Australian agaricoid and sequestrate species with phenotypic affinities to the genus Inocybe (Agaricales, Basidiomycota). Here this clade is proposed as the new genus Auritella. Seven species are fully documented with taxonomic descriptions and illustrations, four of which are described as new. A key to genera and major clades of the Inocybaceae and a key to species of Auritella are provided. A maximum likelihood tree using rpb2 and nLSU-rDNA nucleotide sequences depicts the phylogenetic relationships of five of the seven species of the genus, of which the Australian taxa form a monophyletic group. An ancient split between Australian and African lineages is hypothesized using a molecular clock that dates back at least to the late Cretaceous (about 86 Ma). Diversification of Australian species of Auritella is estimated to have first occurred in the early Tertiary (about 60 Ma).

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