identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
DF691E1549770C00FF0ABACB48C0F87F.text	DF691E1549770C00FF0ABACB48C0F87F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Leucocoprinus beninensis Sarawi 2026	<div><p>Leucocoprinus beninensis Sarawi, sp. nov.</p><p>(Fig. 2)</p><p>HOLOTYPE. — Benin • Borgou Department, Okpara, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=2.724&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=9.237" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 2.724/lat 9.237)">Forêt de Okpara</a>; on sandy soil, in woodland dominated by Isoberlinia doka Craib &amp; 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 SeSa113; FR-0246101, isotype: UNIPAR; GenBank PX634060 (ITS).</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. — The epithet beninensis refers to Benin, the country in which the type specimens of this species were collected.</p><p>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 SeSa186; FR-0246102; GenBank PX634061 (ITS).</p><p>MYCOBANK. — MB#861479.</p><p>ECOLOGY, HABITAT, AND DISTRIBUTION. — Basidiomata solitary or gregarious, pressumably saprotrophic, on soil, in woodland. Currently only known from Benin.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>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 (7C2-4, D3-5, 8C2-4, D3-6), sometimes greyish-brown (7E2-3, F2-3) with a darker reddish brown to brown pileus centre (7E5- 6, 8E 4-6, F4-6), sometimes purplish-brown or grey (9E3-5, F1-5), 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 (6A1-3; B1-2). 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.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DF691E1549770C00FF0ABACB48C0F87F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Nourou, Sepas Sarawi;Yorou, Nourou Soulemane;Piepenbring, Meike	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
