Research Paper

Finding a needle in a haystack: morphology and multigene molecular analysis unveil a novel species, Neoboletus angiocarpus, the first sequestrate Indian bolete (Boletaceae)

Sudeshna Datta, Kanad Das, Alfredo Vizzini

Published on: 04 February 2025

Page: 139 - 146

DOI: 10.6165/tai.2025.70.139

Abstract

Featured with unconventional pattern, sequestrate mushrooms in Basidiomycota always elicit never-ending curiosity among mycologists and mushroom hunters across the continents. Our quest for the hidden treasure of Boletoid mushrooms in Indian Himalaya led to the discovery of the first sequestrate form of mushroom in the immensely diverse and one of the fast-growing mushroom families i.e. Boletaceae. Neoboletus angiocarpus sp. nov. is proposed and described here with morphological details and multigene molecular phylogenetic estimation. Allied species are also compared morphologically with this new species.

Keyword: Boletales, Himachal Pradesh, macromorphology, micromorphology, new species, phylogenetic inferences

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