Journal
PHYTOTAXA
Volume 202, Issue 3, Pages 185-197Publisher
MAGNOLIA PRESS
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.202.3.2
Keywords
taxonomy; phylogeny; ITS; cultivatable mushrooms
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31000013, 31360014, 31470152]
- Bio-Asie project Inventory and taxonomy of Agaricus species in Thailand, Laos, Malaysia and Yunnan (China)
- domestication and evaluation of species of nutritional or medicinal interest
- Project of Science and Technology Department of Hubei Province, China [52206-04046]
- Thailand Research Fund grant [BRG 5580009]
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Agaricus is a genus of macrofungi containing species with high edible and medicinal values. A survey of Agaricus species carried out around the Ebinur Lake, in Xinjiang Province of China, in 2012, yielded 19 collections that exhibited a red discolouration when bruised. Morphological and phylogenetic comparison with species of five sections of Agaricus possessing the red discolouration trait showed that the specimens belonged to four species. Two species, A. sinodeliciosus sp. nov. and A. bitorquis in section Bivelares and A. desjardinii sp. nov. and A. padanus in section Nigrobrunnescentes, both sections being monophyletic. The two new species proposed are described and illustrated and all species are compared with similar taxa or previous records. Agaricus padanus is reported outside Italy for the first time. All species are edible and consumed by locals, and appear to be adapted to relatively dry, cold and sandy habitats. Like A. bitorquis, A. sinodeliciosus produces large, delicious semihypogeous basidiomata in such conditions; it is therefore a good potential candidate for domestication and industrial production.
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