taxonID	type	description	language	source
D064802EC1100558FCBEFCDBD2B5FA34.taxon	description	(Figs 2; 3; 4;)	en	Deepna Latha, K. P., Anil Raj, K. N., Manimohan, Patinjareveettil (2026): Discovery of a new species of the hitherto monotypic genus Nothocybe Matheny & K. P. D. Latha from tropical India. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (2): 11-21, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2
D064802EC1100558FCBEFCDBD2B5FA34.taxon	materials_examined	TYPE MATERIAL. — India • Kerala State, Kozhikode District, the sacred grove around Poyilkavu Temple; on soil; near Vatica chinensis (Dipterocarpaceae) trees; 11 ° 24 ’ 31.6 ” N, 75 ° 42 ’ 48.6 ” E; 11. XI. 2022; P. Haridev DKP-SERB 104; holoype: CALI [CALI DKP-SERB 104); GenBank no. nrITS: (DKP-SERB 104: PV 050412); nrLSU (DKP-SERB 104: PV 050413); and rpb 2 (DKP-SERB 104: PV 155511). MYCOBANK NUMBER. — MB 857480.	en	Deepna Latha, K. P., Anil Raj, K. N., Manimohan, Patinjareveettil (2026): Discovery of a new species of the hitherto monotypic genus Nothocybe Matheny & K. P. D. Latha from tropical India. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (2): 11-21, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2
D064802EC1100558FCBEFCDBD2B5FA34.taxon	description	SYSTEMATIC POSITION. — Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes, Agaricales, Inocybaceae, Nothocybe.	en	Deepna Latha, K. P., Anil Raj, K. N., Manimohan, Patinjareveettil (2026): Discovery of a new species of the hitherto monotypic genus Nothocybe Matheny & K. P. D. Latha from tropical India. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (2): 11-21, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2
D064802EC1100558FCBEFCDBD2B5FA34.taxon	etymology	ETYMOLOGY. — Named after Vanadurga (literally, in Sanskrit, goddess of the forest), the deity of Poyilkavu Temple, as this species was collected from the sacred grove around this temple.	en	Deepna Latha, K. P., Anil Raj, K. N., Manimohan, Patinjareveettil (2026): Discovery of a new species of the hitherto monotypic genus Nothocybe Matheny & K. P. D. Latha from tropical India. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (2): 11-21, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2
D064802EC1100558FCBEFCDBD2B5FA34.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS. — Basidiocarps small. Pileus brownish orange with a fibrillose-squamulose surface. Lamellae adnexed to narrowly adnate, white to orange grey, with a fimbriate, concolourous edge. Stipe central, equal or slightly tapering towards the apex, solid, fibrillose, with a pruinose surface. Basidiospores ovoid to obovoid or amygdaliform, smooth, occasionally with a slight angular outline. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia copious, occasionally with a resinous coating at the apex. Pileipellis a cutis disrupted by patches of ascending hyphae. Caulocystidia as modified terminal hyphae of stipitipellis, coated with a resinous substance. Differs from N. distincta in having a paraboloid to convex pileus with a straight margin, adnexed or narrowly adnate lamellae, a white stipe with a marginate-bulbous base, ovoid to obovoid or amygdaliform basidiospores, slightly larger caulocystidia and distinct nrITS, nrLSU and rpb 2 sequences.	en	Deepna Latha, K. P., Anil Raj, K. N., Manimohan, Patinjareveettil (2026): Discovery of a new species of the hitherto monotypic genus Nothocybe Matheny & K. P. D. Latha from tropical India. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (2): 11-21, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2
D064802EC1100558FCBEFCDBD2B5FA34.taxon	biology_ecology	HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION. — On the ground, near Vatica chinensis (Dipterocarpaceae) trees, solitary or in small groups. Known only from the type locality in Kerala State, India.	en	Deepna Latha, K. P., Anil Raj, K. N., Manimohan, Patinjareveettil (2026): Discovery of a new species of the hitherto monotypic genus Nothocybe Matheny & K. P. D. Latha from tropical India. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (2): 11-21, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2
D064802EC1100558FCBEFCDBD2B5FA34.taxon	description	DESCRIPTION Basidiocarps Small. APPENDIX 1. — Continuation. Pileus 8 - 23 mm diam., initially paraboloid, becoming hemispherical or convex; surface brownish orange (6 C 4 / OAC 688) all over when young, becoming brown or dark brown (6 E 8 / 6 F 8 OAC 734) at the centre and on the squamules and brownish orange (6 C 4 / OAC 729) elsewhere with age, initially appressed-fibrillose all over, becoming appressed – or slightly recurved-squamulose on and around the centre and appressed-fibrillose elsewhere at maturity; margin deflexed or somewhat straight when young, becoming straight at maturity, crenate. Lamellae Adnexed or narrowly adnate, close, initially white, becoming white to orange grey (5 B 2 / OAC 718) at maturity, up to 2 mm wide, with lamellulae in 1 - 2 tiers; edge fimbriate, white or concolourous with the sides. Stipe 7 - 26 × 2 - 4 mm, central, terete, initially equal, becoming equal or slightly tapering towards the apex at maturity, cartilaginous, solid; surface white, appressed-fibrillose all over, pruinose all over, densely so towards the apex; base distinctly marginate-bulbous. Context soft, up to 2 mm wide, white. Odour Not distinctive. Taste Not distinctive. Spore print Not obtained. Basidiospores 9 - 11 (12) × (5) 6 - 7 (8) (10.5 ± 0.7 × 6.3 ± 0.6) µm, Q = 1.3 - 2.0 Qm = 1.6, smooth, ovoid or obovoid in frontal view, amygdaliform with an acute apex in side view, occasionally with a slight angularity, thick-walled, pale yellowish brown. Basidia 32 - 40 × 10 - 13 µm, clavate or at times pedicellate clavate, thin-walled, hyaline, 4 - spored; sterigmata up to 5 µm long. Pleurocystidia Absent. Lamella-edge Sterile with clusters of cheilocystidia. Cheilocystidia 28 - 67 × 9 - 16 µm, abundant, cylindrical, clavate or utriform, occasionally coated with a resinous substance especially towards the apex, slightly thick-walled, hyaline. Lamellar trama Subregular; hyphae 4 - 12 µm wide, thin-walled, hyaline. Pileus trama Subregular; hyphae 5 - 16 µm wide, thin-walled, with a yellowish brown plasmatic pigment and occasional brown spiral encrustations. Pileipellis A cutis disrupted by patches of ascending hyphae; hyphae 3 - 8 µm wide, slightly thick-walled, with a yellowish brown wall pigment. Stipitipellis A cutis disrupted by bunches of caulocystidia over the entire length of the stipe; hyphae 4 - 12 µm wide, slightly thick-walled, hyaline or with a pale yellow wall pigment. Caulocystidia Occurring as modified terminal hyphal cells of stipitipellis, 21 - 100 × 8 - 16 µm, abundant, versiform: cylindrical, narrowly utriform, narrowly utriform with a median constriction, flexuous or cylindrico-flexuous, with a subcapitate, capitate or obtuse apex, occasionally septate, occasionally coated with a resinous substance especially towards the apex, slightly thick-walled, hyaline or with hyaline spiral encrustations. Clamp connections Observed on all hyphae.	en	Deepna Latha, K. P., Anil Raj, K. N., Manimohan, Patinjareveettil (2026): Discovery of a new species of the hitherto monotypic genus Nothocybe Matheny & K. P. D. Latha from tropical India. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (2): 11-21, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2
D064802EC1100558FCBEFCDBD2B5FA34.taxon	discussion	NOTES Nothocybe vanadurgae Manim. & K. P. D. Latha, sp. nov. is characterised by small basidiocarps with a fibrillose-squamulose pileus, adnexed to narrowly adnate and white to orange grey lamellae, a fibrillose-pruinose stipe with a marginate-bulbous base, smooth basidiospores occasionally with a slight angularity, a sterile lamella-edge with abundant cheilocystidia occasionally with a resinous substance at the apex; a cutis-type pileipellis disrupted by patches of ascending hyphae and bunches of caulocystidia scattered over the entire length of the stipitipellis formed as modified terminal hyphae, occasionally coated with a resinous substance and a probable association with Vatica chinensis (Dipterocarpaceae). Nothocybe distincta (K. P. D. Latha & Manim.) Matheny & K. P. D. Latha, a species originally described as Inocybe distincta K. P. D. Latha & Manim. from Kerala, India (Latha et al. 2016), represents the only other known species of the genus. Nothocybe distincta is similar to N. vanadurgae Manim. & K. P. D. Latha, sp. nov. in having almost similar size (pileus 6 - 17 mm; stipe 9 - 31 × 2 - 4 mm) and colour of the basidiocarps, a fibrillose-squamulose pileus, similarcoloured lamellae with a white edge, an appressed-fibrillose stipe with a pruinose surface, similar size of the basidiospores (6 - 12 × 5 - 7 µm) with an occasional slight angular outline, a sterile lamella-edge, similar size (17 - 70 × 7 - 10 µm) and morphology of cheilocystidia with a resinous substance at the apex, a cutis-type pileipellis disrupted by patches of ascending hyphae and a cutis-type stipitipellis with caulocystidia having a resinous coating at the apex. However N. distincta has an applanate, rimulose pileus with a reflexed margin, emarginate lamellae, an orange grey stipe with an abruptly ending base, phaseoliform-ellipsoid basidiospores and slightly smaller (17 - 70 × 7 - 10 µm) caulocystidia. Moreover N. distincta was collected from Acacia groves. No close hits with zero e-values were obtained using the nrITS (649 bp) sequence in BLASTn searches. However N. distincta resulted as the closest hit using the nrLSU (1332 bp: GenBank EU 604546; 97.5 % identity) and the rpb 2 (651 bp: GenBank EU 600904; 89.2 % identity) sequences.	en	Deepna Latha, K. P., Anil Raj, K. N., Manimohan, Patinjareveettil (2026): Discovery of a new species of the hitherto monotypic genus Nothocybe Matheny & K. P. D. Latha from tropical India. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (2): 11-21, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2, URL: https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2
