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Maba DL, Guelly AK, Yorou NS, et al. Phylogenetic and microscopic studies in the genus Lactifluus (Basidiomycota, Russulales) in West Africa, including the description of four new species. IMA Fungus. 2015;6(1):13-24doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.01.02.
Maba, D. L., Guelly, A. K., Yorou, N. S., Verbeken, A., & Agerer, R. (2015). Phylogenetic and microscopic studies in the genus Lactifluus (Basidiomycota, Russulales) in West Africa, including the description of four new species. IMA fungus, 6(1), 13-24. https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.01.02
Maba, Dao Lamèga, et al. "Phylogenetic and microscopic studies in the genus Lactifluus (Basidiomycota, Russulales) in West Africa, including the description of four new species." IMA fungus vol. 6,1 (2015): 13-24. doi: https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.01.02
Maba DL, Guelly AK, Yorou NS, Verbeken A, Agerer R. Phylogenetic and microscopic studies in the genus Lactifluus (Basidiomycota, Russulales) in West Africa, including the description of four new species. IMA Fungus. 2015 Jun;6(1):13-24. doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.01.02. Epub 2015 Mar 24. PMID: 26203413; PMCID: PMC4500078.
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IMA Fungus. 2015 Jun;6(1):13-24. doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.01.02. Epub 2015 Mar 24.

Phylogenetic and microscopic studies in the genus Lactifluus (Basidiomycota, Russulales) in West Africa, including the description of four new species.

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Dao Lamèga Maba, Atsu K Guelly, Nourou S Yorou, Annemieke Verbeken, Reinhard Agerer

Affiliations

  1. Département de Botanique et Écologie Végétale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé,?BP 1515, Lomé, Togo; ; Department Biology I, Organismic Biology: Mycology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Menzinger Straße 67, 80638 München, Germany.
  2. Département de Botanique et Écologie Végétale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé,?BP 1515, Lomé, Togo;
  3. Department Biology I, Organismic Biology: Mycology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Menzinger Straße 67, 80638 München, Germany ; Faculty of Agronomy, University of Parakou, BP 123, Parakou, Benin.
  4. Research Group Mycology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35 B - 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
  5. Department Biology I, Organismic Biology: Mycology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Menzinger Straße 67, 80638 München, Germany.

PMID: 26203413 PMCID: PMC4500078 DOI: 10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.01.02

Abstract

Despite the crucial ecological role of lactarioid taxa (Lactifluus, Lactarius) as common ectomycorrhiza formers in tropical African seasonal forests, their current diversity is not yet adequately assessed. During the last few years, numerous lactarioid specimens have been sampled in various ecosystems from Togo (West Africa). We generated 48 ITS sequences and aligned them against lactarioid taxa from other tropical African ecozones (Guineo-Congolean evergreen forests, Zambezian miombo). A Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic tree was inferred from a dataset of 109 sequences. The phylogenetic placement of the specimens, combined with morpho-anatomical data, supported the description of four new species from Togo within the monophyletic genus Lactifluus: within subgen. Lactifluus (L. flavellus), subgen. Russulopsis (L. longibasidius and L. pectinatus), and subgen. Edules (L. melleus). This demonstrates that the current species richness of the genus is considerably higher than hitherto estimated for African species and, in addition, a need to redefine the subgenera and sections within it.

Keywords: Cryptic species; Distribution; Lactarius; Lactifluus; Molecular phylogeny; Taxonomy

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