identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
D064802EC1100558FCBEFCDBD2B5FA34.text	D064802EC1100558FCBEFCDBD2B5FA34.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Nothocybe vanadurgae Manim. & K. P. D. Latha, DKP-SERB 2026	<div><p>Nothocybe vanadurgae Manim. &amp; K.P.D. Latha, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 2; 3; 4;)</p><p>TYPE MATERIAL. — India • Kerala State, Kozhikode District, the sacred grove around <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=75.71349&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.408777" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 75.71349/lat 11.408777)">Poyilkavu Temple</a>; on soil; near Vatica chinensis ( Dipterocarpaceae) trees; 11°24’31.6”N, 75°42’48.6”E; 11.XI.2022; P. Haridev DKP-SERB104; holoype: CALI [CALI DKP-SERB104); GenBank no. nrITS: (DKP-SERB104: PV050412); nrLSU (DKP-SERB104: PV050413); and rpb 2 (DKP-SERB104: PV155511).</p><p>MYCOBANK NUMBER. — MB 857480.</p><p>SYSTEMATIC POSITION. — Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes, Agaricales, Inocybaceae, Nothocybe .</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Basidiocarps</p><p>Small.</p><p>APPENDIX 1. — Continuation.</p><p>Pileus</p><p>8-23 mm diam., initially paraboloid, becoming hemispherical or convex; surface brownish orange (6C4/OAC688) all over when young, becoming brown or dark brown (6E8/6F8OAC734) at the centre and on the squamules and brownish orange (6C4/ OAC729) 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.</p><p>Lamellae</p><p>Adnexed or narrowly adnate, close, initially white, becoming white to orange grey (5B2/OAC718) at maturity, up to 2 mm wide, with lamellulae in 1-2 tiers; edge fimbriate, white or concolourous with the sides.</p><p>Stipe</p><p>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.</p><p>Odour</p><p>Not distinctive.</p><p>Taste</p><p>Not distinctive.</p><p>Spore print</p><p>Not obtained.</p><p>Basidiospores</p><p>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.</p><p>Basidia</p><p>32-40 × 10-13 µm, clavate or at times pedicellate clavate, thin-walled, hyaline, 4-spored; sterigmata up to 5 µm long.</p><p>Pleurocystidia</p><p>Absent.</p><p>Lamella-edge</p><p>Sterile with clusters of cheilocystidia.</p><p>Cheilocystidia</p><p>28-67 × 9-16 µm, abundant, cylindrical, clavate or utriform, occasionally coated with a resinous substance especially towards the apex, slightly thick-walled, hyaline.</p><p>Lamellar trama</p><p>Subregular; hyphae 4-12 µm wide, thin-walled, hyaline.</p><p>Pileus trama</p><p>Subregular; hyphae 5-16 µm wide, thin-walled, with a yellowish brown plasmatic pigment and occasional brown spiral encrustations.</p><p>Pileipellis</p><p>A cutis disrupted by patches of ascending hyphae; hyphae 3-8 µm wide, slightly thick-walled, with a yellowish brown wall pigment.</p><p>Stipitipellis</p><p>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.</p><p>Caulocystidia</p><p>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.</p><p>Clamp connections</p><p>Observed on all hyphae.</p><p>NOTES</p><p>Nothocybe vanadurgae Manim. &amp; 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).</p><p>Nothocybe distincta (K.P.D. Latha &amp; Manim.) Matheny &amp; K.P.D. Latha, a species originally described as Inocybe distincta K.P.D. Latha &amp; 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. &amp; 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.</p><p>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 EU604546; 97.5% identity) and the rpb 2 (651 bp: GenBank EU600904; 89.2% identity) sequences.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D064802EC1100558FCBEFCDBD2B5FA34	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	Deepna Latha, K. P.;Anil Raj, K. N.;Manimohan, Patinjareveettil	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
