Hygrocybe rubida, a new species from Kerala State, India

K.B. Vrinda; Shibu P. Varghese; C.K. Pradeep

doi:10.1016/j.myc.2012.10.003

Mycoscience

Online ISSN : 1618-2545
Print ISSN : 1340-3540

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Hygrocybe rubida, a new species from Kerala State, India

K.B. Vrinda , Shibu P. Varghese, C.K. Pradeep

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Keywords: Agaricales, Hygrophoraceae, Taxonomy, Western Ghats

JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS

2012 Volume 54 Issue 4 Pages 271-273

DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.myc.2012.10.003

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Abstract

Hygrocybe rubida, a new species in subsection Squamulosae of section Coccinea, collected from tropical evergreen forests of Western Ghats of Kerala is formally described. The species is characterized by a bright red, dry pileus and stipe; ovoid to subamygdaliform spores; a distinctly sterile lamella-edge with crowded cheilocystidia and a trichodermial pileipellis.

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