Zhuliangomyces Redhead 2019
Creators: name: Huang, Ting
name: Zhang, Wen-Hao
name: Huang, Hong-Yan
name: Gu, Yan-Ming
name: Tang, Li-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Amanitaceae
Zhuliangomyces

description: Key to the species of Zhuliangomyces
1. Pileus cream white to slightly pale yellowish-brown.........................................................................................................................2
1*. Pileus yellowish-brown to dark brown to dark olivaceous ................................................................................................................4
2. Pileus cream white, without yellowish tone, 33–42 mm diam.; lamellae pinkish; basidiospores broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, 5.4–7.8 × 4.3–6.4 μm, Q = 1.2–1.5; growing in broad-leaved forests of Acacia modesta .............................................................. ......................................................................................................................................... Z. pakistanicus (Usman & Khalid 2020)
2*. Pileus white, more or less with pale yellowish tone; lamellae white .................................................................................................3
3. Pileus up to 60 mm diam., margin non-striate; basidiospores broadly ellipsoid, rarely ellipsoid, 4.0–5.0 × 3.5–4.0 μm, Q = 1.12– 1.34; growing in mixed forests............................................................................................................. Z. illinitus (Cui et al. 2018)
3*. Pileus up to 55 mm diam., with obvious striation at margin; basidiospores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, 5.0–7.0 × 4.5–6.0 μm, Q = 1.05–1.20................................................................................................................ Z. subillinitus (Guzmán & Johnson 1974)
4. Pileus dark olivaceous, umbonate, 30–50 mm diam.; margin non-striate; basidiospores broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, 3.5–5.0 × 2.5–3.5 μm, Q = 1.21–1.56; fruiting on soil under Rhododendron .............................................. Z. olivaceus (Cui et al. 2018)
4*. Pileus yellowish-brown to dark brown...............................................................................................................................................5
5. Pileus margin non-striate....................................................................................................................................................................6
5*. Pileus margin striate ...........................................................................................................................................................................7
6. Pileus yellow to pale brown yellow; annulus large and conspicuous.................................................. Z. lenticularis (Lasch 1828)
6*. Pileus chocolate to dark brown, especially obvious when young; annulus very thin; basidiospores broadly ellipsoid, 4.0–5.0 × 3.0–4.5 μm, Q = 1.15–1.28; growing on the ground in broad-leaved forests .................................................. Z. terrus (this study)
7. Pileus up to 40 mm diam., non-umbonate, light grayish brown, easily separated from stipe when mature; basidiospores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, 3.5–4.5 × 3.0–4.0 μm, Q = 1.03–1.07; fruiting in bamboo woods........................... Z. bambusus (this study)
7*. Pileus up to 60 mm diam., umbonate, brown-yellow, not easily separated from stipe; basidiospores broadly ellipsoid to subovoid, 4.0–5.0 × 3.5–4.0 μm, Q = 1.13–1.33; growing in mixed forests ........................................................................................................ .................................................................................................... Z. ochraceoluteus (Neville & Poumarat 2004; Cui et al. 2018)
description: Published as part of Huang, Ting, Zhang, Wen-Hao, Huang, Hong-Yan, Gu, Yan-Ming & Tang, Li-Ping, 2022, Two new species of Zhuliangomyces (Amanitaceae) from Hainan Island, China, pp. 57-67 in Phytotaxa 575 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.575.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7403206