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Department of Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
T. J. Baroni
Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, College at Cortland, Cortland, New York 13045
Orson K. Miller, Jr.
Department of Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
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Melanomphalia thermophila (Sing.) Sing. is a rarely collected agaric previously known only from Florida and Brazil. This taxon was originally described as a species of Tubaria and much of Singer's rationale for placing Tubaria within the Crepidotaceae (Imai) Sing. was based on anatomical similarities between T. thermophila and Crepidotus (Fr.) Staude. In later works, T. thermophila was transferred to Melanomphalia M.P. Christ., again forming the basis upon which Singer placed Melanomphalia within the Crepidotaceae. Based on examination of newly collected specimens from Puerto Rico and Panama, type studies, and nuclear large subunit rDNA analysis, we conclude that this taxon is, in fact, a centrally stipitate Crepidotus. Melanomphalia thermophila is transferred to Crepidotus, fully described and illustrated.
Key words: Crepidotaceae, nuclear large subunit rDNA sequences, Tubaria, type studies
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Melanomphalia M.P. Christ. was a monotypic genus that Singer (1955)
originally placed in the Cortinariaceae. Again, this decision was based on similarities in exosporial ornamentation, in this case between the type, M. nigrescens M.P. Christ., and Inocybe platensis Speg., which he transferred to Melanomphalia (Singer 1955
). In later works, Singer reconsidered his treatment of these genera by transferring Tubaria Section Thermophila to Melanomphalia and placing Melanomphalia in the Crepidotaceae because of the stated anatomical similarities between M. thermophila and its allies and some Crepidotus species (Singer 1967
, 1971
). Thus the Crepidotaceae sensu Singer came to include, among others, the pleurotoid genus Crepidotus (including both smooth- and ornamented-spored taxa), and the stipitate genera Melanomphalia (all members with ornamented basidiospores), Tubaria, and Simocybe Karst. (the latter two containing only smooth-spored taxa) (Singer 1986
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We have made several collections of a dark reddish brown stipitate agaric from the Luquillo municipality of Puerto Rico in subtropical moist and wet forest between 70 and 110 m elevation. Anatomical features, including basidiospore ornamentation, are consistent with a diagnosis of Melanomphalia thermophila. In this paper we fully describe and illustrate M. thermophila and present the results of a phylogenetic analysis that lead us to propose a new combination, Crepidotus thermophilus.
| MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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Sequence analysis
To ascertain the natural affinities of M. thermophila, DNA was extracted from two Puerto Rican collections made in consecutive years. Methods for extraction of DNA, amplification, and sequencing follow Aime (1999)
. Primers LR0R, LR3R, LR5, and LR7 (Moncalvo et al 2000
) were used to sequence a portion from the 5'-end of the nuclear large subunit rDNA (nLSU). For sequence analysis, we assembled a data set of previously published sequences (Table 1), by selecting two generic exemplars from each family following the classification of Singer (1986)
in order to approximate the range of diversity found within the dark-spored Agaricales. Three taxa of white-spored agarics were included for rooting purposes, with Gymnopus dryophilus chosen as the outgroup. Taxa within Crepidotus were selected to include a broad cross-section of the phenotypic diversity inherent in the genus.
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| TAXONOMY |
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Tubaria thermophila Sing., Papers Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts & Letters 32:145. 1948.
Melanomphalia thermophila (Sing.) Sing., Atas Instituto de Micologia 5:481. 1967. Pileus (Fig. 2) a deep rich reddish brown (6D5-7 to 7D8Sienna, Brick Red or Terra Cotta) slightly fading with age and expansion to Cinnamon Brown (6D6), 2050 mm broad, convex becoming broadly convex, occasionally broadly umbonate, then plane, eventually uplifted, undulate and incised around the margin with age, moist or dry, becoming appressed fibrillose squamulose with age. Lamellae pale tan (5A2 to 5B3Orange White or Greyish Orange), short decurrent, close to crowded (23 tiers of lamellulae), narrow (up to 2 mm), edges concolorous or slightly paler and fimbriate. Stipe pale creamy white (4A23Yellowish White or Cream), 1.54.0 mm wide at apex, 2035 mm long, equal, terete, often flexuous, central or very slightly eccentric, glabrous except for white fibrillose-pruinose apex, white mycelioid or strigose covering at base, solid and white context. Odor and Taste not distinctive. Spore deposit light reddish-brown. Basidiospores (Figs. 4, 89, 13) 7.010.7 x (4)4.85.9(6.3) µm (n/6 = 136, Lm = 8.7 ± 0.83, Wm = 5.4 ± 0.38, Q = 1.292.12, Qm = 1.62 ± 0.17; HOLOTYPE n = 21, 7.910.7 x 4.56, Lm = 9.6 ± 0.69, Wm = 5.3 ± 0.37, Q = 1.562.05, Qm = 1.82 ± 0.14), amygdaliform in profile view, broadly fusiform-elliptical in face view, round in polar view, verrucose, yellow brown in 3% KOH. Basidia mostly 2-sterigmate, some 1 or 4 sterigmate, clavate, 17.824.3 x 6.48.0 µm. Cheilocystidia (Figs. 3, 10) abundant, hyaline, versiform, but mostly inflated, clavate, obpyriform, sphaeropedunculate, or broadly fusiform, some cells with apical digiform projections, 2244 x 1123 µm. Pleurocystidia absent. Lamella trama composed of a ± parallel, hyaline, cylindric or mostly inflated hyphae, (3.2) 817 µm in diam. Pileus context a hyaline layer of loosely interwoven, cylindric or slightly inflated, frequently branched hyphae, 414 µm in diam. Pileipellis a rich yellow brown layer of loosely entangled, cylindric or slightly inflated hyphae, 618 µm in diam, producing ascendant versiform pilocystidiate end cells (Fig. 12), cylindrical or slightly inflated or some tapered fusoid, 30120 x 618 µm, all cells with dense dark yellow brown vacuolar pigments. Stipitipellis a dingy yellowish brown layer of repent, cylindric hyphae, 2.45.6 µm in diam, with abundant versiform caulocystidia ( Figs. 5 7, 11) at apex, quite variable, on young specimens mostly cylindrical-contorted, narrowly fusoid or narrowly clavate, on mature specimens mostly composed of clusters of inflated clavate or spherical end cells, 14.646 x 9.718 µm, sometimes with these spherical end cells sitting atop chains of 24 swollen spherical subtending cells. Clamp connections present in all tissues.
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Specimens examined. PANAMA. PROVINCE OF PANAMA: Barro Colorado Island, Gatun Lake, W.M. Wheeler Trail, 14 May 2000, C.L. Ovrebo 3808 (CSU). PUERTO RICO. MUNICIPIO LUQUILLO: between Luquillo and Sabana, off of Rt. 991, above Rio Sabana and a private chicken farm, N 18° 21' 3.4'', W 65° 43' 50'', approx. 70 m elev., 7 June 1997, T.J. Baroni 8496 (CORT); same local, 14 Nov. 1996, T.J. Baroni 8309 (CORT); same local, 15 January 1998, O.K. Miller, Jr. 27270 (VPI); Luquillo Mts., CNF, near Sabana in borderline subtropical wet forest, 18° 19' 34'', W 65° 43' 22'', 14 July 1998, collected by J. Mercado, comm. S. A. Cantrell PR4887 (NY). UNITED STATES. FLORIDA: Highlands Co., near Seabring, Highlands Hammock State Park, 2 August 1942, R. Singer F 20 (SYNTYPE, FH); same local, August 1942, R. Singer F 20/III ("authentic", FH).
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Much of Singer's evolving concept of the Crepidotaceae was based on similarities in exosporial ornamentation between Tubaria (later Melanomphalia) thermophila and Crepidotus Sect. Echinosporae. Not surprisingly, basidiospore ornamentation in C. thermophilus as revealed by SEM (Figs. 89) falls well within the range of variation for Crepidotus, consisting of low, distinct, verruculae, intermediate between that found in C. variabilis (Fr.) Kumm. (in Pegler and Young 1972
) and C. subverrucisporus (Pilát) (in Senn-Irlet 1993
). Previous work has suggested that the nature of exosporial ornamentation combined with the shape of basidiospores may be the best phenotypic indicator of phylogenetic relationships in the Crepidotaceae (Aime 1999
). Significantly, neither basidiospore ornamentation nor shape in C. thermophilus share similarities with those published for the generic type of Tubaria, T. furfuracea (Pers. ex Fr.) Gill. (in Clémençon 1977
), or with M. nigrescens (in Horak 1968
, Montag 1996
), the type species of Melanomphalia. Fresh material of M. nigrescens was not available for DNA analysis.
This study has raised questions regarding the natural phylogenetic affinities of both Tubaria and Melanomphalia that we are currently working to address. In addition, we are re-examining other species currently placed in Melanomphalia to determine whether they also belong in Crepidotus. If and when these taxa are transferred it would increase the number of species with well-developed central stipes currently placed in Crepidotus.
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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Accepted for publication May 8, 2002.
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