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Crinipellis pedemontana sp. nov. (Agaricomycetes), a new basidiomycete from Italy

     Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Mycotheca, Universitatis Taurinensis, Università di Torino, Viale, Mattioli 25, 10125 Torino, Italia

Vladimír Antonín

     Moravian Museum, Department of Botany, Zelny trh 6, CZ-659 37 Brno, Czech Republic

Machiel E. Noordeloos

     National Herbarium of the Netherlands, University of Leiden Branch, van Steenis Gebouw, Einsteinweg 2, P.O. Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands

Crinipellis pedemontana, a new agaric growing on stems of dead grasses in an Italian urban park, is described and illustrated. It fits in sect. Grisentinae on account of the green reaction with KOH and ammonia and its bright colored pileus. The unique combination of purple-violaceous tinges in the pileus and the presence of chlamydospores in the pileipellis characterize this species as new. Its taxonomic position within Crinipellis and the related genus Moniliophthora is discussed.

Key words: Agaricales, chlamydospores, Marasmiaceae, taxonomy