Journal
FUNGAL DIVERSITY
Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages 281-298Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13225-012-0215-4
Keywords
Afrocantharellus; Biodiversity; Guineocongolian rain forest; Identification key; Phylogeny; Tanzania; Zambezian woodlands
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- SIDA/SAREC under the Propagation and phytochemical studies of endangered or economically important plants and fungi of Tanzania project
- project Macrophylogeny of life between the Genoscope and the service de systematique moleculaire [CNRS IFR 101]
- Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
- ATM-project Barcode of life
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The authors present a combined morphological and molecular approach of the genus Cantharellus in Africa. Morphological descriptions and detailed illustrations are provided for five new species from the Zambezian savannah woodlands in tropical Africa: C. afrocibarius, C. gracilis, C. humidicolus, C. miomboensis and C. tanzanicus. A maximum likelihood analysis of tef-1 sequences obtained for 83 collections of Cantharellus that are representative of all major groups in world wide Cantharellus, places a total of 13 African chanterelles, including the five newly described taxa. The recognition of a separate genus Afrocantharellus is rejected. An identification key based on the re-examination of all existing type material is provided for all presently known African Cantharellus.
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