taxonID	type	description	language	source
DF691E1549770C00FF0ABACB48C0F87F.taxon	description	(Fig. 2)	en	Nourou, Sepas Sarawi, Yorou, Nourou Soulemane, Piepenbring, Meike (2026): Leucocoprinus beninensis Sarawi, sp. nov., a new species of Agaricaceae from Benin. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (1): 1-9, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1
DF691E1549770C00FF0ABACB48C0F87F.taxon	materials_examined	HOLOTYPE. — Benin • Borgou Department, Okpara, Forêt de Okpara; on sandy soil, in woodland dominated by Isoberlinia doka Craib & Stapf and Uapaca togoensis Pax; 9 ° 14 ’ 13.2 ” N, 2 ° 43 ’ 26.4 ” E; 200 m alt.; 12. VI. 2022; S. Sarawi, S. Badou, D. Dongnima, F. Hampe, C. Manz, B. Olou, A. Rühl SeSa 113; FR- 0246101, isotype: UNIPAR; GenBank PX 634060 (ITS).	en	Nourou, Sepas Sarawi, Yorou, Nourou Soulemane, Piepenbring, Meike (2026): Leucocoprinus beninensis Sarawi, sp. nov., a new species of Agaricaceae from Benin. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (1): 1-9, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1
DF691E1549770C00FF0ABACB48C0F87F.taxon	etymology	ETYMOLOGY. — The epithet beninensis refers to Benin, the country in which the type specimens of this species were collected.	en	Nourou, Sepas Sarawi, Yorou, Nourou Soulemane, Piepenbring, Meike (2026): Leucocoprinus beninensis Sarawi, sp. nov., a new species of Agaricaceae from Benin. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (1): 1-9, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1
DF691E1549770C00FF0ABACB48C0F87F.taxon	materials_examined	ADDITIONAL MATERIAL. — Benin • Collines Department, near Kilibo; on sandy soil, in woodland dominated by Isoberlinia doka and Uapaca togoensis; 8 ° 36 ’ 57.6 ” N, 2 ° 39 ’ 54 ” E; 320 m alt.; 21. VI. 2022; S. Sarawi, D. Dongnima, F. Hampe, C. Manz, A. Rühl SeSa 186; FR- 0246102; GenBank PX 634061 (ITS). MYCOBANK. — MB # 861479.	en	Nourou, Sepas Sarawi, Yorou, Nourou Soulemane, Piepenbring, Meike (2026): Leucocoprinus beninensis Sarawi, sp. nov., a new species of Agaricaceae from Benin. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (1): 1-9, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1
DF691E1549770C00FF0ABACB48C0F87F.taxon	biology_ecology	ECOLOGY, HABITAT, AND DISTRIBUTION. — Basidiomata solitary or gregarious, pressumably saprotrophic, on soil, in woodland. Currently only known from Benin.	en	Nourou, Sepas Sarawi, Yorou, Nourou Soulemane, Piepenbring, Meike (2026): Leucocoprinus beninensis Sarawi, sp. nov., a new species of Agaricaceae from Benin. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (1): 1-9, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1
DF691E1549770C00FF0ABACB48C0F87F.taxon	description	DESCRIPTION Basidiomata small to medium sized. Pileus 5 - 25 mm diam., initially campanulate or hemispherical, then convex and eventually plano-convex, umbonate, pileus covered by almost erect, tomentose squamules, light reddish brown to light brown (7 C 2 - 4, D 3 - 5, 8 C 2 - 4, D 3 - 6), sometimes greyish-brown (7 E 2 - 3, F 2 - 3) with a darker reddish brown to brown pileus centre (7 E 5 - 6, 8 E 4 - 6, F 4 - 6), sometimes purplish-brown or grey (9 E 3 - 5, F 1 - 5), on a slightly striate, white background. Lamellae free, moderately crowded, ventricose, 1 - 3 mm deep, white. Stipe 10 - 30 × 1 - 3 mm, cylindrical, equal, not bulbous at the base, smooth, white, towards the base yellowish to light brown (6 A 1 - 3; B 1 - 2). Annulus persistent, ascending, white. Odour and taste not recorded. Basidiospores (80 / 2 / 2) (5.3 –) 5.8 – 6.4 - 6.9 (– 7.6) × (3.8 –) 4.1 – 4.3 - 4.5 (– 4.8) µm, Q = 1.33 - 1.69, Qav = 1.46 - 1.51, amygdaliform, ellipsoid to ovoid, hyaline, smooth, without germ pore, dextrinoid, non-metachromatic. Basidia (16 –) 17 - 20 (– 23) × (6.7 –) 7.6 - 9.0 (– 10.0) µm, clavate, hyaline, with oily content, mostly 4 - spored, sometimes 1 - or 2 - spored, with up to 5 µm long sterigmata, pseudoparaphyses absent. Lamella edge fertile, consisting of a homogeneous mixture of basidia and basidioles. Cheilocystidia absent. Pleurocystidia absent. Pileus covering a hymeniderm made up of chains of cylindrical to subglobose elements, sometimes disorderly arranged, terminal elements narrowly clavate to clavate, sometimes with acute apex, (23 –) 29 - 43 (– 47) × (6.5 –) 8.5 - 16.0 (– 20.0) µm, with pale brown to brown intracellular pigment and sometimes with encrusted brown pigments. Clamp connections absent in all parts of the basidiomata.	en	Nourou, Sepas Sarawi, Yorou, Nourou Soulemane, Piepenbring, Meike (2026): Leucocoprinus beninensis Sarawi, sp. nov., a new species of Agaricaceae from Benin. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (1): 1-9, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a1
